Did your MP turn their back on deaf children?
Campaigning for deaf children At the bottom of this blog is a depressingly long list of all the MPs who voted to cut benefits for deaf and other disabled children last night in the Welfare Reform Bill debate. Here is a website where you can work out who your MP is if you're not sure. Apparently, you can send [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Author Posts on Forum
Jamie Berke (About.com) The author of a new book for young people, with a deaf main character, has posted on the forum about her book. In her book "Flying to the Light," the deaf character is a young boy with a type of super power. I have not read this book. If you read it, go back to the forum and post your review!Author Posts on Forum originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Thur...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

My Letter to the Indiana Senate Appropriations Committee...
Deaf Echo Dear Senator: My name is Dr. Christopher Jon Heuer, and my dissertation, professional research, and work all fall within the fields of literacy, language acquisition, and Deaf Education. HB 1367 will soon come before you for review. I hope you will consider my arguments against it and oppose it. At the very least, I [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Hearing Loss Association of America Surpasses $1.2 Million...
Mike McConnell Received an interesting email announcement from HLAA about their fund raising effort in 2011 through their Walk4Hearing fund raising events. It's amazing to see how much they've raised money in one year. Already into 2012 they've raised almost $70,000 which is about 5% of their $1.3 million dollar goal. Bethesda, MD: The Hearing Loss Association of America is pleased ...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

February 1, 2001--Remember back then?
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone.Someone went and prayed for the soul of Benjamin Varner yesterday. Some one did a shudder of what happened 11 years ago. It was on a day that rocked the campus of Gallaudet University WORSE than before September11, 2001 ever happened.Read Remember 2-1-01Joseph Mesa MURDERED Eric Plunkett and Benjamin Varner on the campus of Gallaudet.He tried to plead i...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

How do Sign Language Interpreters Increase Opportunity in a...
Street Leverage One of the main giving hands in the sign language interpreter economy is the scheduler of interpreting services for the local interpreting agency, university, or VRS company.  These daring individuals play an extremely important role in the livelihood of most sign language interpreters.  So, when it can literally mean the difference between thousands of dollars [......
Thu, Feb 02 2012

The Neptune Seminar!
You gotta b'lieve Hon, or not! We had over 30 people at the Neptune seminar in Rockville.I was able to see children that already got their bilateral Neptunes!!! I love the fact you can clip your processor anywhere!! I did a demonstration to a few people how I would wear my Neptune if I had one!!! I only wish!!!!I also got to meet a candidate that was interested in AB's implants. He happens to work ...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Deaffest 2012
PDDCS News Deaffest is the UK’s only Deaf-led film and television festival, which celebrates the talents of Deaf filmmakers and media artists from all over the world. Why not go along?The 2012 festival will be held at Light House in Wolverhampton from Fri 25 – Sun 27 May.Young Deaffest will be taking place on Sat 26 MayIf you would like to submit your film to this dynamic an...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

A Parent's Experience With the ISD Outreach Center & Why...
Eh? What? Huh? I was told about a blog post, Why I support Indiana House Bill 1367, written by Untitled. She wrote about her experience taking her son to the Outreach Center at ISD to be assessed. It did not sound as if it went well. Below is an excerpt. You can read the entire article here. I was very hesitant on going there because Evan was an already an established auditory le...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

The deafening Silence
At The Rim Britain's most (Un)wanted man. Despite massive concerns raised by every disabled and deaf person in the UK regarding welfare and benefits, it is clear the Conservative coalition government is determined to throw our most vulnerable on to the street to fend for themselves. Despite 7 major defeats of their discriminatory and hateful attacks on our deaf and disabled ch...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Music and the Cochlear Implant Part One, Week Seven.
Please face me, I read lips Up until last year, I had always heard music pretty well because I had a lot of good residual low tone hearing left. OK- I admit that I didn’t hear the full spectrum of music in any particular song, but I got enough that it was enjoyable, and often recognizable. In early 2011 I downloaded [...]
Thu, Feb 02 2012

Gallaudet University Named Location of the Month by the...
Gallaudet News The D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development is pleased to honor Gallaudet University in Northeast as the February 2012 One City Location of the Month. Gallaudet University is recognized as the world's only university in which all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students. The University is also kn...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

New development on bilingualism in California
You are you and your circumstances This excerpt is from Dr. Tom Humphries via a listserv that I wanted to share with ya'll."Today, the Committee on Accreditation of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing voted to approve a bilingual authorization for ASL for our teacher preparation program there at the University of California, San Diego. You may have known that we have had an experime...
Thu, Feb 02 2012

January on PDDCS News
PDDCS News Record breaking month on PDDCS News in January as thousands from around the world clicked in for news and events from around the deaf community - and our local member families kept in touch with what was going on locally.6315 visits to 44 posts .. here is the top posts from the month..Sign Language Toddler VideoI'm Deaf - So What?Learn Sign Language OnlineSign2Sing 20...
Wed, Feb 01 2012

DEAF AT THE DELI
SayWhatClub Weblog I spent yesterday shopping and running errands.  It was a good day, as I didn't really run into any particular difficulty...  I wasn't doing things where I needed to listen or concentrate intently. My last stop before heading home was the grocery store.  It was late, and the deli was actually closed, but I paused [...]
Wed, Feb 01 2012

DeafBlind History Workshop at U of VA
John Lee Clark In this groundbreaking lecture, John Lee Clark will call attention to an overlooked group in North America: deaf-blind people. Clark will show how a few deaf-blind people in the mid-nineteenth century built a network of correspondents, forming a "virtual" place of their own that remains today the community's most vital space.
Wed, Feb 01 2012

Government turns their back on deaf children
Campaigning for deaf children One thing that has always made me feel angry is that the way that deaf people are forced to “cope”. Other disabled people are much worse off. But deafness still poses huge barriers. In a civilised society, deaf people shouldn't have to go through life “coping”. Deaf people need support to help them become independent [...]
Wed, Feb 01 2012

Deaf Teens: Hearing World BBC3 Monday 6th Feb
PDDCS News Deaf Teens: Hearing WorldThis documentary, by director Claire Braden, has been described as "insightful".It's about five deaf teenagers who they take their first steps into the hearing world. "It follows some extraordinary young people who have some extreme and surprising attitudes towards their deafness."Watch it!Form your opinions.Compare with your experiences.For f...
Wed, Feb 01 2012

Hundreds See "The Hammer" on Screen and in Person
NTID News More than 400 people on Monday attended the RIT premiere of “The Hammer,” a film based on the life of Matt Hamill, a Rochester Institute of Technology Hall of Fame wrestler and three-time NCAA Wrestling Division III national champion. The film, which was made two years ago in and around Rochester, was shown in the Clark Gym, the same venue where Hamill competed as...
Wed, Feb 01 2012

INDIANA’S HB 1367 – Send Your Letter of Opposition Now!!!
The DEAFinite Resource Online If you keep up with the political happenings around the country, especially those points that will affect the Deaf and Hard of Hearing population, you might already know about Indiana’s House Bill #1367. If you are not familiar with this, you can read it at: [link] The main point of this bill is to remove the current outreach center at the Indiana School of the De...
Wed, Feb 01 2012

Super Bowl XLVI: PepsiCo and the NAD
NAD News 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 with PepsiCo worked closely with the National Football League to ens...
Wed, Feb 01 2012

Bald Day 2012
The Buff and Blue For those who aren’t really aware of what Bald Day is, it is a “tradition” here at Gallaudet University. The quotation marks are there because students consider it a tradition, but members of the Faculty and Staff of Gallaudet do not. Up until three years ago, bald day was banned on campus and students had [...]
Wed, Feb 01 2012

Great Post About HB 1367 & the Issues Surrounding Indiana...
Eh? What? Huh? I found this excellent post on the issues surrounding House Bill 1367, Indiana School for the Deaf, and its outreach center. The article is named, Consider What You're Fighting to Win-My Post on Hear Indiana's "Support HB 1367" Facebook Page, written by Christopher Jon Heuer. I think his take on the situation is one of the most reasonable and clear statements I have ...
Wed, Feb 01 2012

Hearing people – it’s time to give subtitles a chance
Charlie Swinbourne Last week, the Mail Online ran a story called SPEAK UP! Or why mumbling actors are ruining TV drama, in which Leo McKinstry described sitting down to watch the BBC's expensive production of Birdsong, only to find he couldn't understand ... Continue reading →
Wed, Feb 01 2012

Why lip Reading and Sign STILL isn't working.
At The Rim In response to a request to show this topic again and since more comments are still going in. Consider this, if your class had an 25% success rate with 15% of pupils, would you call that a success ? The UK does.I think there is a very real problem for those that acquire a deafness, and a very real need for an end to ya boo communication choices, lip-reading or sign...
Wed, Feb 01 2012