Louisiana School for the Deaf Closes
Jamie Berke (About.com) The string of sex assaults at the Louisiana School for the Deaf finally got to be too much for the state superintendent of education in Louisiana. (The most recent case...
Media Education Legal Tue, Oct 07 2008 · 19 minutes ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Something to Look Forward to: An Evening of Accessible...
SpeakUpLibrarian I'm so excited! My new friend Julie and I are going to a closed captioned theatre performance of Eurydice at Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago next month. I've been a theatre buff all my life. My parents took me to community theatre productions when I was a kid. Linda, my best friend from library school, and I once went to Stratford, Canada for their Shakespeare Festiv...
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Provost Follow-up
Glenn's Story Book Glenn wrote:I had a follow-up meeting with the provost today at 1:00. I get there on time and who do I see but the CART person who was moved out of my ADMG 310 class. Making small talk isn't really an option, but I did tell her that the teacher couldn't understand one of the transcripts she created. She looked a little embarrased about that. She should be ashamed ...
Higher Education Audism Tech Legal Tue, Oct 07 2008 · 19 minutes ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Walls
DeafDC.com Have you read Paul Schwartzman's recent article in the Washington Post (entitled “Gallaudet’s New Aesthetic Openness”)?  If not, please do take a look-it's pretty good.  Schwartzman's focus is on Gallaudet University's drive to develop a number of adjacent properties that it owns along Sixth Street using an architectural design conc...
Media Higher Education Tue, Oct 07 2008 · 21 minutes ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

A Blast from the Past
The Rebuttal In the late 1990s I worked at VSDC which is now known as Deaf Children Australia. January of each year was generally a slow time with children being away on holiday. We used the time to tidy up minor administrative issues and set ourselves up for the New Year. One January my manager sentme [...]
Education Culture Tue, Oct 07 2008 · 1 hour ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

When an Idea Becomes a Reality: Live*Love*Hear
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Design created by Rachel ChaikofKaren Feeser posted the following comment on the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Circle on October 1, 2007, right in the middle of our CI Awareness Campaign Discussions:I was thinking, we have all of these walks, runs, fundraiser ideasto raise awareness to breast cancer, leukemia, autism, muscular dystrophy....etc...why can we not have somet...
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DDW back in the USA!
Discovering Deaf Worlds We made it home! After a year of discovering and documenting deaf worlds in eight countries, we are now back in Rochester, NY. Things that once seemed so familiar, like using tap water to brush our teeth or flushing toilet paper down the pipes instead of in a garbage bin, seem so unfamiliar now. Reality TV, yards, and paved roads are things we haven't seen in a lon...
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Is the Time For NAD To Offer Free Membership?
RLMDEAF Is the time for the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) to offer the basic free membership for the purpose of statistical numbers to show our political muscle to the elected officeholders and corporations and donors?What do you really think of this one?ASLize yours,Robert L. Mason (RLM)RLMDEAF blog
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NAD's Disastrous Protest V. NFB protest
RLMDEAF Many of us already knew about the NAD's disastrous protest against the "Tropic Thunder" film last summer 2008. NAD doesn't protest soley against "Tropic Thunder" for endless mockery against disabled people in general. NAD went along with other disabled groups' protest against that film.What about you think about the National Federation of the Blind's latest protest ag...
Media Legal Culture Tue, Oct 07 2008 · 7 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

How Come the NAD Didn't Televise BB's 80th Birthday Bash...
RLMDEAF How come didn't the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) televise the special events like Bernard Bragg's 80th Birthday Bash and "ASL Idol" from the NAD Conference 2008 via webcasts?That would be an excellent opportunity for the National Association of the Deaf to do the nationwide membership recruitment tools and exposure for showing its own prestige and presence t...
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New Children's Book: My Heart Glow by Emily Arnold McCully
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and the Birth of American Sign Language (2008) by Emily Arnold McCully Reading level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover: 40 pages Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children Alice Cogswell was a bright and curious child and a quick learner. She also couldn't hear. And, unfortunately, in the early nineteenth century in America, there was ...
Media Art and Storytelling Tue, Oct 07 2008 · 7 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

New in October Children's Book: Signs of Jays by Linda...
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature Signs of Jays (October 2008) by Linda Kurtz Kingsley Publisher: Jason & Nordic Publishers ISBN-13: 9780944727225 Reading Age: 4 to 9 32pp Peter and his mother rescued two abandoned jays. Caring for the baby birds became a project for Pete, Mike, who was deaf, and for Pete’s mother’s hearing impaired class students. Just as the children in the hearing impaired gr...
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New Book for Adolescents: From A to Zulinski by Deb Piper
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature From A to Zulinski (May 2008) by Deb Piper Reading level: Ages 9-12 Publisher: Royal Fireworks Publishing Company This is the third volume in the chronicles of the irrepressible Jake's schooling. We first met him in Jake's the Name, Sixth Grade's the Game and followed by his exploits in Those Sevy Blues. Jake is deaf and has relied on an interpreter to sign the spok...
Media Art and Storytelling Tue, Oct 07 2008 · 8 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Status update IV - early autumn 2008 - part 4 of 5
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Everyday life - restlessness I'm more stressed and restless. The feeling of social isolation is stronger than ever, and I'm more sad. It's not depression, because I am able to initiate things and engage in activities that are good to me. The positive experiences about my body's reactions to physical exercises this summer came at a [...]
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Reclaiming The Deaf Term: HEARING, MOTHER FATHER DEAF
Random Thoughts and Musings I’ve resisted the term CODA from the beginning, which is unlike me. I’m big on allowing members of a group to define their own identity and not to define them when I am not a member of the group. But the term that Americans have gleefully adopted to define those who are hearing with Deaf parents has always been jarring and wrong on some fundamental level for me. The...
Media Language Culture Tue, Oct 07 2008 · 10 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

2009 Academic Bowl Registration A Big Success
CPSO at Gallaudet University Team registration for the 2009 Academic Bowl, which took place on October 2, recorded almost 100 schools from across the United States. The deadline to register your school is October 17, 2008.  For more information, please go to the official Academic Bowl website.
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Support center for the deaf set up in Yamagata Prefecture
Deaf Japan News A central center that provides deaf persons with counseling service through sign language or note taking, called the "Prefectural Information Support Center for the Deaf," opened in the Prefecture Branch Shirakawa public office, Yamagata City, October 1, 2008.It is the first facility in the Yamagata Prefecture which offers various services to the deaf persons. Accor...
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Campaign to keep the name of schools for the deaf in...
Deaf Japan News On September 30, a group called "The Study Group on Deaf Education in Saitama Prefecture" met with Kazuo Shimamura, superintendent of the Prefectural Education Bureau, and requested to leave the name of two prefectural schools for the deaf in the prefecture. They also submitted the 13,637 signatures to him. The group is consisted of deaf persons and those concerned. ...
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05.08.01 SM - The First Book
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 53rd clip - 3:15 m./4:55:19 h. This clip is posted in gratitude to Dr. Jean Andrews for being in the path of this myth. As a grant writer extraordinaire, she was able to secure federal grants for the Lamar University Deaf Studies doctoral program which enabled me to receive my doctorate degree [...]
Media Higher Education Language Education Culture Tue, Oct 07 2008 · 11 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Famous deaf people throughout history
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Gallaudet Students at Springfield Headquarters
The Deaf Perspective 13 members of the Gallaudet community volunteered to come down to Springfield, Virginia to help with Obama's campaign. We ended up canvassing!NOTE: Just because this blog frequently shows the Democratic side does not mean that I'm pushing for you to vote Democratic. I highly recommend you to get involved with the party that most fits your political beliefs. There are ...
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Edward S. Klima
found in blank I never heard of him until I got the UCSD campus-wide e-mail about his passing. Here is a well-written obituary of him by Margalit Fox, author of “Talking Hands” which I loved. And then just yesterday I read an article in where Klima was cited, and I am left wondering how many times I have [...]
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Chris Kaftan - Facebook the New Everybody Thing
i711.com : Deaf News This Week I joined Facebook in July 2007 at the insistence of a friend. Since then, I haven't looked back...
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Life after deaf
I look so I can hear.... Sam Wollaston was thrown into the deep end of living with a family where every member was deaf. Did he survive? Read his report in this Friday's Guardian G2, which will be focusing on deaf culture.
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9th World Deaf Golf Federation scheduled in Japan for 2012
Deaf Japan News The World Deaf Golf Federation held the representative meeting in Perth, Australia on Sept. 28 and decided to hold the 9th World Deaf Golf Championship in Tsu CC, Mie Prefecture in October, 2012. It will be the first championship to take place in Asia.The World Deaf Golf Championship is held once every two years. The last was held in Perth this year and the next will...
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