Idiot Hospitals and the ADA law.
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!Jamie has posted a good article on deafness.about.com today. Link: [link] there's a few reasons why Hospitals ask to bring family/friends to assist in being an interpreter. It isn't about cost, but it's rather about gathering medical history of the deaf patient and teaching them to help care for the patient at home after release from the hospital.But...
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Hands of My Father flyer: BUT NOTE: NEW PUBLICATION DATE IS...
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature Hands Of My Father FlyerView SlideShare document or Upload your own.
Media Art and Storytelling Sat, Sep 27 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Karen Putz Talks to The Celebrity Experience Author
A Deaf Mom Shares Her World Donna Cutting, author of The Celebrity Experience is on a Book Tour and today's stop is right here!  Donna and I met at the SOBCon'08 conference. You may recall Donna from a previous post where I reviewed her book and wondered, What Would Happen if Steak ‘n Shake Rolled Out the Red Carpet for Their [...]
Media Legal Sat, Sep 27 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

YouTube videos are up!...
SURROUND SOUND ...here! I have the first one captioned, and am working on the other two. I will try to get them posted here tomorrow night :). I had my second map today. We set my first program at Hi-Res P, Fidelity 120...my second program was just a louder version of the first. Then I asked Susan to set my third program at Hi-Res S in hopes that a simpler program with less stimulat...
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Teacher at American School of the Deaf fired because..
DeafRoger Long time no see guys,Just now I was just visiting Fark.com and I came across a story with the tag "Dumbass" and the hook line:"Today's female teacher having sex with a student comes to you from the American School for the Deaf. You submitted this headline in all CAPS (w/ pic goodness)"I checked Deaf Read and didn't find anything about it so here you go:Teacher At Sch...
Media Legal Sat, Sep 27 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

ASD Teacher Arrested for Sexual Assault
submit by: Wretschko American School for the Deaf (Hartford, Conn) teacher arrested for sexually assaulting student over two months.
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"Deaf Should Bring Friends/Family to Hospital, No...
Jamie Berke (About.com) In response to an article in the Concord, New Hampshire Union Leader about a hospital settlement over deaf and hard of hearing people's complaints about communication access, a hearing person...
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The passing of a GU Professor.
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone.It saddens me that the Gallaudet Business Department didn't bother to post a notice in the inside Gallaudet, nor sending out an e-mail to their graduates on the passing of a wonderful Professor, Charles J. Pearce. When I was told that this professor had passed away, I was shocked. Doc P, as we used to call him in class, was one of the most kindest and...
Higher Education Fri, Sep 26 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Will new 'Test' undermine the Deaf future ?
At The Rim Health experts today raised fears over a new test for pregnant women to detect genetic disorders in their babies. The simple blood test can diagnose conditions including Down's Syndrome and cystic fibrosis. But it has raised concerns that it could encourage "designer babies", with parents using it to select the sex. The test would be able to give the gender of an...
Audism Tech Culture Fri, Sep 26 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Texas School for the Deaf
deafmac.org When I went to Texas School for the Deaf (TSD) to do a Mosdeux production, the first thing I noticed when driving through the campus gate was an Apple computer sitting in the security booth. It was a sight akin to witnessing a pig fly. TSD is a Mac campus. Teachers, staffs, faculties, administrations [...]
Education Tech Fri, Sep 26 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The FCC PN on Reimbursable Costs for VRS/IP Providers
Ed's Telecom Alert All.. Lot of the FCC stuff I have not covered the last two months that I took hiatus while focusing on the PUC affairs. Since I am no longer with the PUC - I can start focusing on issues for edsalert; I've decided to start most recent FCC Public Notices (PN) and work way back to older ones. [...]
Tech Legal Fri, Sep 26 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Latest Academic Bowl Updates
CPSO at Gallaudet University The latest news about registering for the 2009 Academic Bowl is now on the official Academic Bowl website. To avoid confusion, all previous posts have been removed.  We apologize for any confusion. To learn more about registering your school for the competition on October 2 at 4:00 pm Eastern time, please click here. [...]
Higher Education Education Fri, Sep 26 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

High Definition Runs "Closed Captioning" On Steroids!
Five String Guitar So we bit the bullet back in June and bought a "decent" television. I went with the "LG" brand. I spent weeks researching and narrowed down to a few manufacturers. In the end the "LG" was on sale at a terrific price, that included a years worth of free "High Def" from our local cable company.High Definition is truly wonderful, and I notice the difference. First of a...
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Time of plain talk of truth
testing_the_truth It is getting hot in politics. It is not only about presidential race or bail-out policy, although both are very important. It is about one thing at the moment: the character of leading republican candidate John McCain. His double face and double talking is revealed now in federal politics. But we know even more than that: we remember his actions as Gallaudet Universi...
Higher Education Fri, Sep 26 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

::30 Days:: Day 4
Mountain Mama The husband waving good-bye as he walks out the door, heading to his new job. *!!!* Yeah, you read that right-- new job! Yay!! Someone finally answered one of his hundreds of job applications, interviewed him and hired him. This is his first official day on the job. We missed him while he was gone, but we know it's for a good thing. Baby took a nap and the girls pla...
Media Language Thu, Sep 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

NAD Celebrates as “ADA Amendments Act” Becomes Law
NAD Advocacy The NAD applauds the signing into law of the “ADA Amendments Act of 2008” today by President George W. Bush. This law is a civil rights landmark; a law that enjoyed overwhelming bipartisan support and the support of the disability and business communities. The “ADA Amendments Act” reverses several Supreme Court decisions that narrowed the [...]
Media Legal Thu, Sep 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Kennedy Center Newsletter: Focus on Deaf Artists
Reflections Through a DeafLens Greetings, Not too long ago Kennedy Center's Opening Stages, an on-line newsletter by artists with disabilities asked if I would guest edit one of their issues. I thought long and hard and decided to give it a try. The newsletter was posted last week. In case the link doesn't work, you can Google "Opening Stages" and [...]
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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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