Professional conferences and organizations are valuable!
Daniel Greene In response to The Professional Interpreter's post Are professional conferences and organizations valuable? I replied: I think that, in general, professional conferences are great! I don't go to them all the time—one a year on average—but I always make some valuable personal/professional connections, and I always learn more about how to be better at wh...
Mon, May 21 2012 · 7 hours ago

Deaf Music: Donna Summer
doozeedad We had tall standing speakers when I was a kid. When my parents were out, I'd put on Donna Summer, Live and More at FULL volume and wrap my small body around a speaker, completely circling it. I'd literally feel the music in me. I could see the notes and rhythms in my head. They flowed like a river - the highs and lows were sparks of light. Donna Summer's voice hits ...
Mon, May 21 2012 · 7 hours ago

Why Students Should Attend IEP Meetings
The hearing aid teacher I usually encourage my students to attend their IEP meetings or be a part of the process of implementing their IEPs (Individualized Education Plans). I believe attending IEP meetings can be a great learning experience and that the student can contribute and help us understand how we can better serve this student. Research shows that students actively involved i...
Mon, May 21 2012 · 7 hours ago

Best of Deaffest: The End (directed by Ted Evans)
The Limping Chicken During the week running up to Deaffest 2012, the UK's Deaf film and TV festival which takes place this weekend in Wolverhampton, we're showing you some of the festival's greatest hits from previous years – the award-winning films that blew the audience away and went on to be shown across the world. Before we get [...]
Mon, May 21 2012 · 7 hours ago

Do you use Skype? If so, how does it help you as a deaf...
Liz's Deaf Blog After a friend asked me recently in a birthday card if I was on Skype, I decided to sign up. This friend was a good colleague who retired a few years ago, along with her husband, and I still keep in touch with by letter or email. I let her know via a letter I signed up, pointing out if this call is to be made using a web cam, then I will be able to speak to her. So I ...
Mon, May 21 2012 · 7 hours ago

What is in a Word ?
At The Rim What a load of old tosh and overt discrimination is apparent via these silly and dated sayings. Every 'adage' paints deaf as unable, unwilling or determined never to listen to anything. If deaf want to attack terminology why not start there, instead of inventing new ones to avoid them ?"Deaf To reason" (This is saying deaf are irrational)"Deaf e...
Mon, May 21 2012 · 7 hours ago

Book Review: Programming Cochlear Implants, by Jace Wolfe...
submit by: Dan Schwartz The Hearing Blog reviews Programming Cochlear Implants, by Jace Wolfe and Erin C Schafer, giving it 4½ stars. Plural Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59756-372-7
Mon, May 21 2012 · 7 hours ago

Rob Wilks: Deaf people and access to legal services
The Limping Chicken It is a truth universally acknowledged, particularly within the Deaf community and the interpreting profession, that Deaf people's access to legal advice services in the UK in rather dire. As early as 2009, this was a fact recognised even by the institution with a statutory remit to promote and monitor human rights; and to protect, [...]
Mon, May 21 2012 · 7 hours ago

The Secret Deafie: The couple at the bus stop
The Limping Chicken The Secret Deafie is a series of anonymous columns written by different writers. Today Today I realised people aren't always ignorant of deaf people in a negative or offensive way, but in a way that simply shows their lack of knowledge and understanding. I was sitting at a bus stop this morning. It was quite [...]
Mon, May 21 2012 · 7 hours ago

Welcome to new Captioning Advocacy Project!
ccacblog Let's help make this go viral, and the day a big success! And we invite them into the CCAC of course! Combining energies, supporting all the many good groups and teams and individuals working toward access via captioning for all is a good thing to do. We hope to learn more about this project as [...]
Sun, May 20 2012

BSL TV ? No thank you....
At The Rim There is little justification for signed TV. (So the second week of posts to an deaf text medium in the UK has kept this view going).The assumption that deaf are English illiterate doesn't hold. The other assumption deaf are fluent in BSL, doesn't either. The most fluent in BSL are also fluent in English. We'd be irate but for the issue it is DE...
Sun, May 20 2012

Bullying
Mike McConnell Fortunately I have not been a victim of bullying since I don't see myself as a victim in the first place. Rather I see the perpetrator as someone who wants attention in the effort to raise his or her self-esteem by targeting certain people for their rant and hate. For years as a blogger I've been a target of bullying-tactics by a few deaf people who have graced my blo...
Sat, May 19 2012

Warren Miller
Cultura Surda Categoria: Artes Plásticas País: Estados Unidos Obra: “Videophone (small)“ Línguas: Inglês e American Sign Language (ASL) Site oficial: [link] [link] (...) Desde pequenino Warren Miller dedica-se à arte. Encantado com as obras do pai e do avô, aprendeu a desenhar logo cedo, dedicando-se a várias técnicas de pintura (óleo, aquarela, acríl...
Sat, May 19 2012

Illusions of Equality: Deaf and Pavlov Dogs Brainwashing
Show Me Deaf Community Illusions of Equality: Deaf and Pavlov Dogs BrainwashingAfter reading Patti Durr's blog about "What Veditz said to NAD near the end of his life!" May 17, 2012 - Link here: [link] , it gave me more insights into George Veditz that I did not concentrate enough in the past.The more I sat alone at home and I thought about Veditz in my head and dre...
Sat, May 19 2012

My Experience - What to Expect From a Rear Window...
Hearing Sparks On Thursday evening my husband and I decided to go see a movie. It was our wedding anniversary, so we went out for a nice dinner and then decided to go see Avengers at our local AMC theater. The trip to the movies gave me my first experience using a Rear Window Captioning System so I thought I would give an overview of how the process worked and how well I think it wi...
Fri, May 18 2012

RIT/NTID Grad Celebrates Five Years in Deaf Social Media
NTID News DeafVIDEO.TV, a website created by RIT/NTID alumnus Tayler Mayer, is a popular site for videos in sign language. It receives millions of page views each month. Mayer also created DeafRead with RIT/NTID alumnus Jared Evans. DeafRead posts stories relevant to the deaf community.
Fri, May 18 2012

Mixed Marriage between Deaf/HOH and Hearing Spouses
Xpressive Handz This post is a little different, more personal than what I usually share, but I feel compelled to address an issue that I see being discussed on various blogs; "mixed" marriages between "deaf" and "hearing" partners.Decades ago, when I was young, I married an even younger man. It was mostly out of loneliness that I married him. I didn't realize at the time that being ...
Fri, May 18 2012

Don't Let Hearing Loss Keep You Home
SpeakUpLibrarian The beach is my favorite destination!It's almost summer time and many people are thinking about how to spend their vacation. In the U.S. gas prices are high and air travel is a hassle, so I can understand if some choose to stay close to home. But I don't want anyone to use hearing loss as an excuse not to see new places! With a little planning and self assertiveness, ...
Fri, May 18 2012

Deafinitely Girly and the terrible din
Deafinitely girly Last night I got in rather late from London Aunt's. We were having a great old catch up that didn't end until the early hours of this morning. So when I arrived back at my flat, I tiptoed in so as not to disturb my neighbour. But what a wasted effort that was because at 4am this morning, I was awoken by what I can only describe as a terrible din. It was the sound o...
Fri, May 18 2012

An Update?
Bionically Yours It's been way too long since I wrote & could I go back and change that, I would!I know all of you are wondering: So how is she doing?To be totally honest, I'll say that the cochlear implant isn't all that I had hoped for- that is, a perfect "fix." Some days I wonder if it would be easier if I didn't know there were people talking, or hear that trite announce...
Fri, May 18 2012

Deaf Girl gets shut in a closed shop
Deafinitely girly I've been having a fantastically relaxing Easter break with The Rents, recovering from my cold, getting loads of sleep, eating the obligatory chocolate for breakfast on Easter Day. Ma and I have also been having a bit of fun doing some shopping in some fabulous shops that simply don't exist in the Big Smoke. Now I know I'm going on a summer holiday, I wanted to get a ...
Fri, May 18 2012

Not hearing my Pa on the phone
Deafinitely girly This morning I am tired and sofa shaped. And the reason for this is I fell asleep on my sofa and woke up at 4.40am this morning. Now, this would be all well and good if my sofa was one of those DFS advert ones where people loll around all over them, limbs everywhere. But my sofa isn't one of them. It's a very beautiful, pale blue, high-armed 157cm long sofa t...
Fri, May 18 2012

Deaf News: Ben Fogle to front Lifeline appeal for Hearing...
The Limping Chicken TV presenter Ben Fogle will front a BBC Lifeline Appeal calling on viewers to raise funds for the national charity his father set up – Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. The charity trains dogs to alert deaf people to household sounds and danger signals such as the doorbell, telephone and smoke alarm – providing life-changing [...]
Fri, May 18 2012

Major League Baseball Discovers RIT Diamond Gem
NTID News Dylan Heuer, a photo intern for RIT’s Sports Information Department, has landed a job as assistant photo editor for MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball. Heuer, of Des Moines, Iowa, is a visual media major who receives access services from RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. He graduates May 26.
Fri, May 18 2012

The Fourth Symptom
Usher Syndrome Blog By Mark DunningWhen someone is diagnosed with Usher syndrome, there are a lot of services offered to address the physical symptoms associated with the disorder. There are hearing aids and cochlear implants, speech therapy and ASL, FMs and loops and closed captioning for hearing loss. There is mobility training and tactile sign and braille and canes and guide dogs for ...
Fri, May 18 2012