Inuit Sign Language
Jamie Berke (About.com) A multi-year project in Canada is working on documenting the native Inuit sign language, along with the development of a DVD. As reported by the Nunatsiaq News, this project is...
Language Culture Thu, Sep 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The Buzz about DBC
Deaf Bilingual Coalition The Buzz about DBC By Jeanine Wiesblatt During the summer you might be vacationing, travelling, working or just being a couch potato....
Media Language Audism Education Tech Culture Thu, Sep 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The People I Meet - Ethan & Heather
Laurie's Dance with Sound Last Saturday I drove to Ohio for a little getaway. . .I take this trip once a year to have some time with family and friends. I also use this time to reflect, ponder, and have some quiet time at my aunt's home in the country in the middle of nowhere. (I'll write about this visit in another post.)On the way up, I stopped in Cincinnati to meet a new CI friend, Ethan ...
Language Education Tech Thu, Sep 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The Rosa Lee Show at Brooklyn, Michigan
The Rosa Lee Show Greetings Folks! Yep, we just upgraded our website! I know it has been a longggg overdue but I hope its worth the wait.  Kudos to Damon Timm for his hard work, developing this site. There are few new additions such as enabling video comments, new video previews and overall usability. Since my last post, I did quite a [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Thu, Sep 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf School Dynamos
submit by: Martha Timms Drawing staff from a local school for the deaf, Image Microsystems found a pool of talented and dedicated workers.
Media Education Thu, Sep 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Some NBC and Fox Online Shows have Closed Caption!
Life is Complicated I'm a big fan of NBC's Heroes and I was very excited when I found out that NBC offered Closed Captioning on selected shows (Heroes is one of them)! I'd like to personally thank NBC for making Closed Caption possible on some shows, especially Heroes.Fox also has some online videos with Closed Caption options available to a limited selection of online videos. But hey, i...
Tech Thu, Sep 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Surrounded by sound!
SURROUND SOUND Sorry it's taken me so long to get this post up. We went to lunch after activation and when I got home I started working on the video. That has been largely unsuccessful so far...the model of Handycam that we borrowed isn't compatible with Windows Vista (I am stating for the record that I hate Vista, argh) so I had to go kick the old laptop into shape, install the Han...
Language Tech Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

No, I'm not crazy, I DID see a UFO!
Musings on communication On Mike Schmidt's blog Oh I see he discusses paranormal experiences that Deaf people have had, or seen. Well, Mike, I can't say much about ghosts although my former in-laws are always good for spectral stories that they swear to have personally experienced! (Promise to tell you about that in another blog.) However, a commenter on your blog brought up UF...
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An Interpreter Training Program Closes, Exacerbating...
Jamie Berke (About.com) When an interpreter training program closes, it has a painful impact on a local community that relies on it as a source of interpreters. Just such an impact is happening...
Higher Education Language Culture Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

I’m walking down the middle road, hoping it veers off to...
Tania Says Today I'm feelin' a little lonely. Hopefully some of you can relate to me. See, I've always felt a little lost my entire life. I never quite fit in to the ‘hearing' world, because I have nowhere near perfect hearing. But I've never fit in to the ‘Deaf' world either, because I didn't grow up with [...]
Language Education Tech Culture Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Bilaterl Dream Alive
Five String Guitar I am getting Advanced Bionics, the manufacturers and brains behind the wonderful technology that gives me sound in my life, to try to figure out the right side implant, and why it fails to give me the same sound as my left.I am excited about the upcoming appointment at the end of the month, because these people know their stuff, and no doubt will spend ample time gett...
Tech Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Karen Putz and Amy Derby Do Lunch
A Deaf Mom Shares Her World  I don't remember who suggested it first, but I found myself writing down “lunch with Amy Derby” on my calendar last week.   Yesterday, I headed out to her town to pick her up. I'm bad with directions, she wrote.  You might want to Mapquest it. I've got a navigator in my van,  I told her.  I'm sure I [...]
Culture Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Audiologist toneburst results
A more silent world The first ABR tests were done entirely with broadband frequency "clicks" that range from 1000-4000 Hz, roughly the entire speech range. Those showed that our son could hear down to about 35dB. But when a slope is present, that response is going to be "best case scenario".We went yesterday for pure-tone tests called "toneburst" and we got 500Hz, 2000Hz, and 4000Hz do...
Language Tech Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

NASRA 2008 Conference
DeafNation The National Association for State Relay Administration (NASRA) held their annual conference in Lowell, Massachusetts, just this past week of September 16-19, at the DoubleTree Riverfront Hotel.
Media Tech Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Mapping Session Weirdness
Sudden Silence So this was kind of a weird mapping session. I had mapping #5 on Thursday, Sept. 18.  Krystine had a student with her this time (whose name I didn’t catch).  We started by sitting down and going over how things went in the past week.  I let her know that my left processor was still shutting [...]
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Super Nanny With Deaf Parents on Channel ABC
Waving With My Deaf Hands Hey, all!Don't miss it. Super Nanny will be with deaf family (It's actually deaf parents with hearing childrein, I think)It'll be on Oct 10th at 8 pm (Central time) Channel ABC. Let families and friends know about this one!Thanks,Deb Ann
Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

I'm Comical Radio's "Achiever of the Year!"
Love, Daddy I was a guest on The Comical Radio a few days ago and my husband Christian was on a few days later. In their blog recap of the show (on page 69...heh, heh!) they said:"If you had to stop your father from stabbing your mother to death and then years later you were called to testify against him for attempting to murder his next wife, would you then send him letters in ...
Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Mondegreens: When Hearing People Make Mistakes
SpeakUpLibrarian On this blog I’ve shared some of my funny “Say what?” moments. But hard of hearing people aren’t the only ones who hear things wrong; it can happen to hearing people too. Have you heard of mondegreens? A mondegreen is the phenomenon of a commonly misheard song lyric or phrase of poetry. How does this happen? According to TVTropes.org : “Sometimes it's the speed or pit...
Language Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

What Do You Think Of the Two-Hour Minimum Interpreting Fee?
Jamie Berke (About.com) Stargazer_Lily in a detailed message on the forum, wants to know what people think of the "policy of “two hour minimum” required by some of the interpreting agencies." Stargazer_Lily objects...
Language Culture Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Status update IV - early autumn 2008 - part 2 of 5
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Adjustment of my HA Dear Abbie, this paragraph is dedicated to you: Earlier this year I complained about hypersensitivity to sounds, recruitment and other issues that made my days difficult. Then a fellow CI-blogger; Abbie simply suggested that I should get my hearing aids adjusted. Of course! Why didn't I think about that? (I think the [...]
Language Tech Wed, Sep 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Jennifer re-activates her first CI today - true bilateral...
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 My fellow CI-blogger, Jennifer activates her re-implanted 1st CI today. I'm so excited for her, and quite optimistic. All signs points to a successful activation today. (I can afford to get my hopes way up for her ;-) ). She really deserves to luck out, since her first attempt was more or less a disaster, [...]
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NTID Students Welcome Deaf Nation Tour
NTID News Rochester and RIT/NTID last week were among the first stops made on a seven-week cross-country tour by DeafNation, a media outlet serving the Deaf community. The DeafNation crew spent two days on campus, where they took a tour, interviewed NTID President Alan Hurwitz and witnessed a photo being taken with NTID students from each state. After the photo, the students an...
Media Higher Education Tech Culture Tue, Sep 23 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Desma Hunt’s Diaries - No 2
The Rebuttal I had such a lovely morning. I attended my son's school assembly. Usually I just go and smile like the other parents. It just doesn't do to not be part of the crowd. You know how it is. You look secretly around you at what the other parents are doing. You see them chuckle so [...]
Language Education Tue, Sep 23 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Sorry, Your Electrodes Are Dead
Jamie Berke (About.com) Today I had another cochlear implant mapping appointment, but this one came with a bit of a surprise. After having me do the usual listening to sounds as part of...
Tech Tue, Sep 23 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf Awareness Week– A Progressive Experience
Please face me, I read lips Speak Up Librarian got me thinking about Deaf Awareness Week.  I didn't even realize this was the week, since I've been so focused on Banned Books Week, however I loved reading about her journey and I thought I'd blog about mine.     Progressive Hearing Loss is much different from sudden hearing loss or early hearing loss.  I [...]
Art and Storytelling Tech Culture Tue, Sep 23 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post