How Evelyn Glennie Gave My Life Back
Living The Questions Normally on Sunday I blog about a talented Deaf person. Today Ive been thinking about someone who has been an inspiration to me. But first, I guess I should back up and tell you something about myself.When I was a little girl I played the piano. I played for years and years, for hours a day. There was a time I imagined becoming a concert pianist. Even after I started ...
Mon, Nov 05 2007

Urgent: Pledge your support against closure Frank Barnes...
Grumpy Old Deafies We've previously blogged about the possible closure of Frank Barnes. This situation is now becoming more urgent, and it seems that Deaf children are being sidelined for other initiatives. The latest campaign e mail is copied below, which explains the...
Mon, Nov 05 2007

Back Home Again--The Deaf Freedom Cruise
Karen Oh gosh. Where to begin? We just arrived home and I'm already wishing I was back on the boat. A whole week of non-stop food, a great bed to sleep in, constant entertainment and wonderful service from staff members that made every effort to please. I'm going to have to post this over a couple of series of blog entries this week. Despite the threat of Hurricane Noel...
Sun, Nov 04 2007

Response to the Challenge on Deafhood left by a Commentor.
Butterfly, like me....Deaf The commenter left Paotie's message in my comment, and I responded that I would follow up on it. The irony thing here is this Paotie and McConnell used the links in their blogs that I even like!! Also, there were a few excellent comments left by well-intended Deaf people! They only interpreted [...]
Sun, Nov 04 2007

Paying for Rehabilitation Therapy
Jamie Berke (About.com) Drew's mom writes in the Turn On My Ears blog about the battle they had to get insurance coverage for therapy sessions for their recently implanted son. Have you had...
Sun, Nov 04 2007

American Sign Language Debate Four
Kalalau's Korner A note on myths about (a) ASL-English bilingualism, (b) Hearing Supremacy, and (c) self-hate.(a) Is ASL-English bilingualism a myth? A misconception? What are the "dangers" of ASL-English biligualism? The 1962 study by Peal and Lambert noted that bilinguals performed significantly higher than monolinguals.Some "English Only" advocates, on the other hand, argue that ev...
Sun, Nov 04 2007

Ears, letters, phonemes, school, etc
Moot Thoughts & Musings It's probably about time to do another update on how fantastic Ellis is *grin*. I was kind of on hiatus from all deaf blogging for a little while. The comments were starting to get too intense for me, which, to some extent, I allow to happen merely by posting on the world wide web. whatever. Lots of fun things to write about today. On the CI front, Ellis is making ex...
Sat, Nov 03 2007

Deaf "Coming out" party!
Learning Deaf Ways The Deaf GLBT community (and its hearing and/or straight friends) "came out" last night to celebrate the launch of Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader. I have never met so many interesting people with such moving stories of their lives or lives of their loved ones.Ten of the writers came from the Twin Cities and as far away as Duluth to attend the party. (Photo #1) M...
Sat, Nov 03 2007

American Sign Language Debate Three
Kalalau's Korner Debating American Sign Language (ASL) is like asking whether comes first: egg or chick.One of the reasons many people cannot answer the question about ASL is because they tend to look at today's language power, which happens to be English, and the problems that would be expressed in English, and not in ASL.People try to interpret ASL from the English language rather t...
Sat, Nov 03 2007

Cochlear Aids Are Here
Jamie Berke (About.com) Actually, the term "cochlear aids" does not exist yet. I invented it to categorize hybrid hearing aids-cochlear implants. The Deafness Research Foundation's Hearing Health magazine has an article online, "Hearing...
Sat, Nov 03 2007

American Sign Language Debate Two
Kalalau's Korner What is Deaf language? What is American Sign Language (ASL)? What is ASL for?The features of the language of the Deaf have been described and discussed for decades. While in recent years the appellations it has gained some popularity, the term most prevalently used for it is ASL, short for American Sign Language. There has been furious debate over whether ASL is reall...
Sat, Nov 03 2007

Do Hearing Kids of Deaf Parents Yell Much?
Jamie Berke (About.com) Tonight I got an e-mail question from an About.com visitor: "I work at a child care center where there is a hearing child of deaf parents. Is it typical for...
Fri, Nov 02 2007

Ben Moore - One Year Later: An Interview With a Protest...
DeafDC.com The one-year anniversary of the United For Gallaudet movement's end has come and passed last Monday, Oct. 29. I felt it was a good time to talk with somebody so deeply involved with it. I interviewed Ryan Commerson, one of the 4 FSSA (the coalition that organized the protest) spokespersons, and discussed his outlook on [...]
Fri, Nov 02 2007

Sign of the Times: dvd on path to legal recogntion of NZSL
Grumpy Old Deafies Recently we blogged about a NZ scientist and his contribution to the Nobel Prize Peace Award. Within the post we also mentioned Victoria Manning, and in the comments, we were asked how to view a film - Land of the...
Fri, Nov 02 2007

My Twenty Clarifications
Mike McConnell Let me clarify something here for many of my Kokonut Pundit readers out there about myself and where I stand since gossiping seems to be a favorite pastime of Deaf culture as of late. An idiocy I want no part of (ie gossiping). Heres is my bulleted list though not necessarily in any particular order.1. I consider myself as a deaf/hh person.2. I was born with a hearing...
Fri, Nov 02 2007

Photo Friday: Four Deaf Yorkshiremen, Make Up
Grumpy Old Deafies Photo credit: we think Charlie Swinbourne! Do you know which actor is getting their make up done? Psst - If you really need to cheat, check out the latest promotional poster. Don't forget, Deaffest is from the 23-25 November...
Fri, Nov 02 2007

National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers
via link submit The National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers is seeking a qualified entity or entities to develop and implement a nation-wide education program to the Deaf Community. More specifically, this new program will provide culturally relevant and linguistically appropriate education to the diverse population of Deaf, hard of hearing and Deaf-Blind individuals re...
Fri, Nov 02 2007

My Advice to the Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohans and Paris...
Dan McClintock Are you addicted to alcohol? Cocaine? Meth? Vicodin? Other drugs? Need to stop? Or don't want to stop? Do you have a son or daughter or friend who is addicted to alcohol or drugs? Do you have a child you'd like to see stop drinking or doing drugs? Is he or she stubborn like Britney Spears and won't listen to your or others' heeding?I have two simple words that are gua...
Fri, Nov 02 2007 · Moved from DeafRead Extra

NAD Across America Launched!
via link submit The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) announces the launch of NAD Across America (NAA), an exciting program to expand NAD representation by 5,000 individual members and to build a strong and vibrant online NAD community. The goal of the new online community, which will be filled with v/blogs, is to provide an ASL-rich meeting place for American deaf community to ...
Fri, Nov 02 2007

American Sign Language Debate One
Kalalau's Korner Toni Morrison addressed on her receipt of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature: We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.Perhaps more than any other debate in Deaf education, the use of American Sign Language (ASL) grapples with questions of Deaf identity. If ASL is not a language, and then tell us what it might ...
Fri, Nov 02 2007

CALL FOR JOURNAL CONTRIBUTIONS: Arts and Disability
We Can Do German Journal for Disability and International Development Call for contributions Issue 1/2008 â Deadline: Nov., 30th 2007 Topic: ARTS and Disability This issue of the journal is about the state and the relevance of cultural participation by arts activities in the cultural life in developing countries. Arts and culture include many different fields such as drama/thea...
Thu, Nov 01 2007

Farewell, Washoe
Jamie Berke (About.com) This week's big deaf news story? Someone's death. Not a human. A chimpanzee. One who used sign language - Washoe. Many media sources carried the report of her death. The...
Thu, Nov 01 2007

NaBloPoMo #1 - I am Deaf
Patty's Blog When I was about one year old, my parents first realized that something was amiss when they noticed that I did not respond or react normally every time there was a sudden sound or noise.At our family doctor's suggestion, they took me to the local chapter of Easter Seals and I had a hearing test. It was then they discovered that I was Deaf.At first, it was thought that...
Thu, Nov 01 2007

You Fans Are Nuts
RidorLIVE Yes, you! Last week on Wednesday night, I cleaned up my email's inbox.  It was down to 216.  I thought, “Now I can get my emails under control for the time being.” Little did I know that the shutdown of my blog along with few others under a certain individual's account which were strafed with bots, a [...]
Thu, Nov 01 2007

To Go Or Not To Go...Now?
gBlog In my last blog, I left you saying that God had different plans for me than what I was expecting. I thought I would graduate with my A.A.S. in December of 2007 and attend Gallaudet in the Spring of 2008. However, by God's wonderful plan and design, my plans changed. It was the spring of 2007, [...]
Thu, Nov 01 2007