A New, Invisible Implant
Hearing Sparks Hearing devices have consistently been getting smaller and smaller as scientists find ways to move away from clunky, large devices to nearly invisible aids. And it seems like the smaller they are, the more interest people have. My blog post on the Esteem implantable hearing aid has received dozens of comments over the course of two years since I published it and I've ...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

NTID-Related Exhibits Planned at Imagine RIT Fest
NTID News Visitors to this year’s Imagine RIT Innovation + Creativity Festival will have no shortage of exhibits, demonstrations and hands-on activities to experience from NTID students, faculty and staff. The event, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 5, is free and open to the public. Numerous sign language interpreters will be provided throughout the campus.
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Social Suicide Note
JonSSon The more I get in touch with my Deafhood, the less I want to be a part of the Hearing world. It is a healthy form of suicide. It is a Deaf success story... Leaving the stressful ways of life ... Continue reading →
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Where Do You Need Captioning?
ccacblog Q: Where do YOU need CAPTIONING? (outside of television, movies, and internet videos please) – Tell us here! Life goes on, every day – where do you wish you had real time speech-to-text easy to read, full quality? at home? at work? in school? at conferences? and ? Talk to us now. We know we [...]
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Deaf news: Loud Music advertising campaign features ears...
The Limping Chicken The charity Action on Hearing Loss has launched an advertising campaign called Loud Music, which features ears being hammered and drilled to make more young people aware that listening to loud music can cause tinnitus and hearing loss. The images will be displayed across Camden in London on billboards, telephone boxes, and in cinemas, with [...]
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Our April round-up!
The Limping Chicken With May kicking off tomorrow, it's time to reflect on another busy month for the Limping Chicken. Here's a round up of some of April's biggest hits! One of my personal favourites, and one that's been rapidly clocking up views on the site, is Asher Woodman-Worrell's story about how his friend Ben Thomson conquered university. [...]
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Deaf Culture
NeiL's Blog Deaf CultureBelieve it or not, deaf people see deafness as a culture, not disability. What is Deaf culture? Before I make an introduction for Deaf culture, we have to know the definition of culture in general and what things that makes it a culture. A culture is made up of patterns, products, behaviors, and beliefs coming from social, ethnic, and age group. Th...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

A Man's Perspective on Deafness
NeiL's Blog A Visual Language? Did you know that Signed English is not actually a sign language? I would not call it a sign language, because English language comes in three different forms which are speaking, writing, and signing. First off, you speak English when you speak words in stranded English. You write English when you write words in English grammar. You sign English...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

What Is It Like to Be Deaf??
NeiL's Blog I sometime wondered about if people, who could hear fully ever imagine themselves in a deaf (or culturally Deaf) person’s shoe or not. Maybe they have thought about it before, but not giving it a lot of thoughts in different way. For instance, to some people, deafness is often thought of as just a disability. For culturally Deaf people, Deafness is not really s...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Deaf West Theatre
Cultura Surda Categoria: Teatro País: Estados Unidos Línguas: Inglês e American Sign Language (ASL) Site oficial: [link] (...) Nos arredores de Hollywood (Los Angeles, EUA), um teatro de surdos cativa públicos dos mais variados tipos, partilhando as línguas de sinais e a expressividade das artes surdas com um grande número de espectadores. Criado em 1991, o Deaf West [...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Hearing Parents: Good Relationship with a Deaf Child
NeiL's Blog Note: This blog is dedicated to my closest friends who've been mentoring me for years and also to my loving parents who tried their best to provide me love as they could. Hearing Parents: How to have a good relationship with your deaf childNeil R., bloggerWhy is it so important to have such a good relationship with a child who cannot hear? I'm aware that having a deaf...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

The Secret Deafie: Another cinema subtitle fail
The Limping Chicken The Secret Deafie is a series of anonymous columns written by different writers. Today’s Deafie tells us about a cinematic subtitle fail. My partner and I waited in keen anticipation for The Woman in Black to come out with subtitles – perhaps because we had been told it was a good, scary thriller that makes [...]
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Keith Wann Interviews Rachel Coleman (Transcript)
Xpressive Handz Keith Wann of Cultural Bridges interviewed Rachel Coleman of Signing Time Here is the transcript of that radio program.>> In its quest to provide an open forum for discussion ofcontroversial issues, this station allows hosts and their guests toexpress themselves without any significant censorship. You areadvised that any views expressed by the ho...
Sun, Apr 29 2012

Notícias do II Congresso de Educação Bilíngue de Surdos...
Vendo Vozes Olá pessoal,Cheguei ontem do Congresso, muito cansada e com saudades de casa, mas superfeliz por tudo o que assisti, todas as pessoas que conheci e todas as ideias trocadas, enfim, tudo o que aprendi. Nunca tinha vivido momentos com tanta interação entre línguas juntas! Em pouco tempo, nos comunicávamos em Português, Espanhol, Inglês, Libras, sem falar nas inú...
Sun, Apr 29 2012

Kids say the darndest things...
The Deaf Project So said Art Linkletter and Bill Cosby... and I couldn't agree more! So, I had this captive audience of the sweetest first graders ever gathered around my feet as I began to talk about some of the causes of deafness and what it might feel like to be deaf. Their wonderful teacher had already prepared them by showing a film about being Deaf and posting the manual alphabe...
Sun, Apr 29 2012

Read this today...
Miss Kat's Deaf journey "Although the development of spoken language is a major purpose of implantation (Geers, 2006; Incesulu et al., 2003), not all parents value this outcome to the same extent. Archbold et al. (2006) reported that 25% of parents who responded to their survey did not expect their child to talk after implantation, and 13% felt neutrally. Furthermore, 73% o...
Sun, Apr 29 2012

Update On “‘Signing Impaired’?!”
Deafia Blog Older Post:  [link] Hello everyone. I've read comments here on Deafia Blog and Facebook. I now understand what “signing impaired” means. It means someone who don't know sign language. I was thinking about “Hearing Impaired” that Deaf people don't approve of. I misunderstood about signing impaired. I took it as like “he...
Sun, Apr 29 2012

Synonyms…Why do they matter in American Sign Language...
ASL Deafined Blog One misconception about American Sign Language is the belief that there is a sign for every word. However, unlike the English Language, ASL is based on communication through concepts. One example is the word “car”. There is not a specific ... Continue reading →
Sat, Apr 28 2012

A Call for Help Gets Answered
I look so I can hear.... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Global, April 27, 2012 A Call for Help Gets Answered CochlearImplantHELP.com, a new and comprehensive website aimed at helping current and future users of cochlear implants and their families, announces the website launch today. A need was identified to help others better navigate their journey to receiving a cochlear implant, whether [......
Fri, Apr 27 2012

New CI info website
CD's Ear Blog A Call for Help Gets AnsweredCochlearImplantHELP.com, a new and comprehensive website aimed at helping current and future users of cochlear implants and their families, announces the website launch today.A need was identified to help others better navigate their journey to receiving a cochlear implant, whether for themselves or for a family member such as their ...
Fri, Apr 27 2012

Hearing aids and technology
Liz's Deaf Blog Today at Nottinghamshire Deaf Society we had two visitors, one who I knew from The Ear Foundation, audiologist Claire Henson, to talk about hearing aids and to show as well as let us try out some equipment she brought along, and Laura who was there to change our hearing aid tubes and ask questions we might need to know about our hearing aids, and show us some pho...
Fri, Apr 27 2012

'No Church In The Wild' Video: Fan-Made Video Draws...
submit by: A Deaf Pundit Last week, HuffPost Entertainment highlighted one such video -- set to Kanye West and Jay-Z's song "No Church in the Wild" -- only to discover that many in the deaf community view such videos not as a tribute but as an insult.
Fri, Apr 27 2012

VRS case: Quick update for three cases
clercjr The Bonheyos requested a continuance (delay) of trial to July 2012, citing time needed for the discovery process by both sides as well as to continue plea negotiations. Judge Pisano rescheduled trial to June 20, 2012 but that is likely to change again when we're closer to the new date. I posted the approval document [...]
Fri, Apr 27 2012

“Signing Impaired”?!
Deafia Blog They call our language, ASL “impaired”?! That's offense to Deaf community! How about “English impaired“, hearing people?! I don't like that. ASL is OUR language, not impaired! What do you guys think of this? Please leave comments, I want to see your opinion on this. Thank you! Click here: https://vimeo.com/18756499
Fri, Apr 27 2012

'Silent Worker' now online
At The Rim Editions of the silent worker (AN American historical deaf paper), is now HERE for your perusal...
Fri, Apr 27 2012