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Sun, Feb 05 2012

Valentine's Day Signs
Xpressive Handz Rachel from Signing Time demonstrates Valentine signs...just in time to share with your students, family, friends, and your Valentine. [link]
Sun, Feb 05 2012

CNN in the Dock over Captioning.
At The Rim A federal magistrate has refused to dismiss a suit by deaf Californians against CNN for its refusal to add closed captioning to news video clips on its website.The lawsuit only alleges discrimination in the way the network delivers its news online and is not an attack on free speech, U.S. Magistrate Laurel Beeler of Oakland said Thursday.The suit accuses CNN and its o...
Sun, Feb 05 2012

The Hub
PDDCS News If you are not yet a fan of the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust (BSLBT) you may not be aware of The Hub and its new series starting on Monday 6th February. 'The Hub' is a programme, presented by the BSL zone, covering news and views from the Deaf community in the UK and beyond. Further details can be accessed from www.bslbt.co.uk/programmes/the-hub
Sun, Feb 05 2012

Dr. Irving King Jordan Jr highest paid federal retiree in...
Don's Blog Bloomberg obtained a list of federal retirees along with their annual benefits via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Keep in mind that federal retirees are paid thanks to taxpayers. As per Bloomberg: Irving K. Jordan Jr., former president of Gallaudet University in Washington, led the list at $375,900. Gallaudet gets about $120 million...
Sat, Feb 04 2012

Is Hands and Voices Really Unbiased and Neutral?
John Egbert's Opinions Is Hands & Voices Really Unbiased and Neutral? I have been approached and encouraged to join Hands & Voices, [link]  but some have warned me that Hands & Voices is not really unbiased and neutral despite of their mission statement: Hands & Voices is dedicated to supporting families with children who are Deaf or Hard [...]
Sat, Feb 04 2012

Who needs sign language ? deaf don't.
At The Rim A new and startling UK statistic has exploded the myth of sign language, not only as a main medium of deaf usage but a preferred one too. More than 800,000 people in the UK are severely or profoundly deaf. This statistic declaration seems to explode the theory sign language is the preferred medium for deaf people. It also begs the question, what ARE the majority o...
Sat, Feb 04 2012

Hearing Teen Tries to Understand
Jamie Berke (About.com) Sometimes teenage boys can be sweet when you least expect it. That certainly is the case in the experience of "Winter" on the forum. Winter is a deaf teenage girl living in a small rural town. She expresses her frustration that many hearing boys she tried to date, would leave because they could not deal with her deafness. Now she is seeing a hearing teenage boy who is...
Sat, Feb 04 2012

Music and My Cochlear Implant, Part Two– Week Seven
Please face me, I read lips I didn’t expect to be able to hear music right away when my cochlear implant was first turned on. I could barely understand speech at first. Charles Limb’s depressing Ted talk  had been posted on-line just a few days before my surgery. If you listen to it, you’ll hear him say at about the three [...]
Sat, Feb 04 2012

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Fri, Feb 03 2012

Bilingual Bimodal Webinar
Miss Kat's Deaf journey Bilingual Bimodal Education Webinar 1 I watched this and I loved it! I hope this is the direction Deaf schools are headed! The information was great and I can't wait to watch the next one! (And now we have a name for Miss Kat's language progress...sequential bilingualism!)
Fri, Feb 03 2012

Super Bowl XLVI: PepsiCo and the NAD
Deaf Network of Texas Super Bowl XLVI: PepsiCo and the NAD The National Association for the Deaf (NAD) and PepsiCo announce that the NAD Miss Deaf America, Rachel Mazique, will perform the National Anthem and America the Beautiful in American Sign Language (ASL) at the upcoming Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis on February 5, 2012. The NAD in partnership [...]
Fri, Feb 03 2012

Tanzania, Africa - gap year option
PDDCS News Request in today for a volunteer who is confident in BSL to support in a young deaf child in Africa. The volunteer role is to include work with the organisation, Forever Angels Baby Home, caring for orphaned and abandoned babies, supporting access in the Tanzania International School and further developing the family (British) signs in BSL. Further information is ava...
Fri, Feb 03 2012

NAD, NFL, and NBC team for Super Bowl Captioning Experience
NAD News The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and the National Football League (NFL) along with NBC, the network airing Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, February 5, 2012, worked together to ensure an accessible experience for the most important game of the year. As in years past, the Super Bowl and national commercials as well as network and NFL promotions will be caption...
Fri, Feb 03 2012

Impeachment trial in sign language
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers Guys I'd like to share with you a very informative and insightful article written by Sir Raul Pangalangan in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He explicitly discussed about the importance of utilizing sign language interpreters in getting the truth and protecting the rights of a deaf person. However, he also enumerated the problems it poses like the [...]
Fri, Feb 03 2012

Join us at the Deaf Rally 2012 in St. Louis!
Show Me Deaf Community Our Deaf activists and advocates,You know that in history during Revolutionary War, Paul Revere galloped through the night warning about the British invading. That was April 18, 1775 ( I think ) Now today, February 3, 2012, I am e-mailing to everyone to please think about coming to St. Louis to band together to show those people at EHDI Conference at Union Statio...
Fri, Feb 03 2012

NAD And NVRC Ask You To Count Captioned Super Bowl...
NAD News Super Bowls are renowned not only for the excitement of the game itself, but also for their legendary commercials. The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons (NVRC) are continuing their annual partnership to count closed captioned commercials this year for Super Bowl XLVI between the New Englan...
Fri, Feb 03 2012

My Thoughts on HB 1367, Thus Far
Eh? What? Huh? Rather than build an entirely new center, why not keep the outreach center where it is and look at what exactly is going on there. If there are problems, fix them. Perhaps the staff needs more training or some staff members need to leave. Perhaps new rules need to be enforced to encourage staff members to provide unbiased information. If some of the staff members did ...
Fri, Feb 03 2012

Speech Reading
At The Rim "Dear Sir/Madam,Thank you for your e-mail regarding lip-reading and sign language tuition.Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills in England/Wales and our role is to inspect schools/children's services and adult learning facilities and report on the findings. Issues such as this fall outside our legal remit."A tale of the tape !...
Fri, Feb 03 2012

Orwell Knew His Stuff!
The Rebuttal William Lutz, Professor at Rutgers University perceptively comments,  “If there's one product American business can produce in large amounts, it's doublespeak. Doublespeak is language that only pretends to say something; it's language that hides, evades or misleads.” Double speak is the art of saying one thing but meaning another. In today’s age double speak is...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

A Deaf Imbolc Ritual
Deaf Pagan Crossroads Recently I have begun corresponding with a Deaf family who has been studying about Paganism and undertaking their own spiritual journey down the Pagan Path. Both the wife and husband are Deaf, and they have three Deaf children.Together, the family has been begun celebrating the Wheel of the Year and eight Sabbats. I recently shared [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Listening from the Heart
Brian Patrick Jensen Sarah's Speech It is is June, 2010. The scene is an all-student assembly where faculty and proud parents join for a wonderful year-end elementary school tradition called “The Moving Up Ceremony.” Having now completed 6th grade, my then twelve-year-old daughter was chosen for the high honor of giving her class's year-end speech. Sarah's pu...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

World's Tiniest Ear Created
Hearing Sparks This is completely fascinating and more than a little mind-bending.Scientists in Germany have developed the world's tiniest ear, referred to as a "nano-ear." This ear could be able to listen to the sounds of bacteria and viruses, both of which make noise as they move. Not only are they extremely sensitive, they can even tell where a sound is coming from.According to t...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Don't Hang Up... It's a Relay Call... Wait...
Xpressive Handz I got a nice letter in the mail the other day. What is difficult is they want me to call to speak with someone on their staff. I wish it were so simple.I am able to use my own voice when I make phone calls because I became deaf late in life. The phone system I use when I call people is wonderful, however it isn't always easy to connect to someone with it. A Calling Ag...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Timeless Poem for the New Year
Brian Patrick Jensen Tribute to My Angels I wrote this poem for my two children, Amanda, 17 and Sarah, 13. It was late June, 2010. My hearing loss had just worsened profoundly and permanently. I could no longer discern the sound of either daughter's voice and I wanted to offer reassurance. . I published this before; and I [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012