Catherine Small: Tackling labyrinthitis
The Limping Chicken When I woke up on 2nd May 2008, the room was spinning, I couldn’t stand up without falling over and I couldn’t hear anything in my left ear. My GP diagnosed labyrinthitis, a viral infection of the inner ear. He was confident my hearing loss was temporary, and that once the virus cleared up my [...]
Fri, Apr 27 2012

DEAF YOUTH COMMITTED SUICIDE, WHY?
Deaf Anthology A 12 year Deaf boy of Warrenville, Illinois (a Chicago suburb) was found dead earlier this morning when his mother became suspicious when he didn't show up for breakfast before school, found him lynched in the basement. Police discovered a suicide note he left behind showing signs of depression after having a CI implant last year, despite his protest. Here are e...
Fri, Apr 27 2012

Where are our ASL Defenders?
Amy Cohen Efron All, Just found out that Huffington Post's Kia Makarechi, who is an entertainment editor left a comment on The Deaf Edge's blog focusing on the controversy around the music video with ‘ASL' interpretation, which ended up incomprehensible to all ASL users. Go to Jeannette Johnson's blog for more information. This blog was one of the [...]
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Deaftel is coming...
At The Rim DEAFTEL is a new phone service for Deaf/HoH that uses cutting edge technology instead of relay operators. They use technology that converts a hearing persons voice into text during a phone call.Deaf Tel users can read and respond to the text message with their keyboard.They then convert the Deaf Tel user's message into speech and play that for the hearing person.SOURC...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Deaf news: Preston’s Deafway launches ‘Deaf embassy’...
The Limping Chicken The Lancashire Evening Post has revealed plans for the deaf charity Deafway, based in Preston, to build an ‘embassy' for the world's deaf community. The centre would be built at Deafway's base in Fishwick, with plans including an art gallery, theatre and conference facilities. The article reports Deafway's Chief executive David Hynes as s...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Children of Deaf Adults
Miss Kat's Deaf journey Tonight we headed out to a Deaf community party (which we do about once a month...gotta keep up with our signing!) We played some fun games, and Miss Kat really enjoys hanging out with the other kids. They are, of course, all hearing, but have Deaf parents. (There have been a few deaf kids that have come in the time we have been going, but mostly, just CODAs.) Tonight...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

ViBe – Feel Your Text
Xpressive Handz Today's guest post is by Paul Benjamin, Co-Founder of Base 2 Applications, LLC. They have created a fabulous app for Android that uses different vibration patterns to let you know who is texting. Very cool! Read what Paul has to say:ViBe – Feel Your TextSmart phones have transformed the way we interact with the world in such a short time. They bring pictures to our ...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Ramesh Meyyappan
Cultura Surda Categoria: Artistas – Geral / Teatro Visual (Outros) País: Singapura/Escócia Línguas: Inglês e British Sign Language (BSL) Site oficial: [link] (...) Um dos grandes artistas do teatro visual, Ramesh Meyyappan, ator surdo de Singapura, encanta platéias por onde se apresenta. Suas expressões, seus movimentos de corpo, suas técnicas de mímica e circo,...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

When we are asked to translate useless materials.
Daniel Greene Reblogged from The Professional Interpreter: Dear Colleagues, We all have clients who at one time or another have asked us to translate materials that we know, or learn after reviewing them, are useless or irrelevant for our client’s objective. One time I was asked to translate a Mexican court file that was close to forty [...]
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Isolating deaf people hastens dementia
At The Rim Despite many complaints at SS, and to her family from deaf friends she should be with other deaf and near friends who could visit her, nobody listened. In other situations, it can kill. One deaf old man was left home alone mostly with basic home help care of 2 hours a day, and left on his own the rest of the time.He'd start cooking, leave the oven on, then...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

No access to Higher education for Deaf Jamaicans..
At The Rim Miss Deaf International, Cassandra Whyte, who communicates through an interpreter, noted that most young people in the deaf community are marginalised and discriminated against because of their disability.She said one of their main areas of concern is tertiary level education, as local institutions do not have the proper facilities or programmes in place to make learn...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Asher Woodman-Worrell: How my friend Ben Thomson conquered...
The Limping Chicken I was recently asked by the editor of this site to write an article about my university experiences, after appearing on the BBC3 documentary Deaf Teens: Hearing World. I am currently a second year student at Nottingham Trent University under the guise of studying Information Systems – while in reality, I often study procrastinating on [...]
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Conquest of the Back Seats
Bewildered CODA Last week, Farah and I went out on a trip. A long trip, in the family mini van. A long trip, in the family mini van, with the kids. A long trip in the family mini van, with the kids, without any mind numbing video entertainment for the blessings in the back seats.It started out easy enough. Farah was driving and I was riding shot gun...that is, I was riding in the pas...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Divadlo Tiché iskry
Cultura Surda Categoria: Teatro País: Eslováquia Línguas: Eslovaco e Slovník Posunkovej Reči (Língua de Sinais Eslovaca) Site oficial: [link] (...) No pequeno país à leste europeu, antiga parte da Tchecoslováquia, um teatro de surdos congrega e promove a cultura surda local: o Divadlo Tiché iskry (DTI), ou Faíscas Silenciosas (em tradução livre para o Portugu�...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Unemployed deaf Man refused communication Support
At The Rim Equality and Human Rights ? for hearing alone apparently ! Since when is it NOT discrimination to refuse a deaf person access ? Is it any wonder deaf people can view an rights commission as discriminatory itself ? what clowns are employed at these commissions ?An unemployed man who is profoundly deaf is ...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Meet: Newsround presenter & marathon runner, Ricky Boleto
The Limping Chicken Newsround presenter Ricky Boleto ran the London Marathon for the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) last Sunday, as part of a team raising over £100,000 for deaf children. He'd barely recovered from clocking up a time of 4 hours, 45 minutes (sorry, Ricky!) when Limping Chicken asked him these questions about his life, deafness and [...]
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Tobie Fysh: Having a deaf son
The Limping Chicken “He probably just needs to dry out a bit” – that should have been the first indication that our first son could be deaf. As it was, we didn't take any hints from the multiple Newborn Hearing Screening tests, and how each time there was another excuse on why it needed to be repeated. It [...]
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Os três porquinhos
Cultura Surda Categoria: Contação de Histórias em Língua de Sinais Páis: Vários Línguas: Várias (...) Quem, quando pequenino, nunca viu/ouviu/leu um conto de fadas, uma fábula ou outra qualquer história infantil, em texto escrito ou na voz e nas mãos de algum parente ou professor? Entre Pinóquios, Cinderelas e Brancas de Neve, “Os três porquinhos” povoa...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

FCC Updates Standards on Mobile Phones and Hearing Aid...
submit by: Dan Schwartz On April 9, 2012, the FCC approved new technical standards for testing phones for hearing aid compatibility (HAC). After this new standard is adopted and a 2-year transition period is completed, the Commission's rules requiring phones to be hearing aid-compatible will apply to handset operations over additional air interfaces and frequency bands. The documents are ava...
Thu, Apr 26 2012

2012 RIT Leadership Awards
NTID News Nearly 30 RIT students – including five who are deaf or hard of hearing – were honored today during the 2012 RIT Leadership Awards for their community involvement, high personal standards and potential as positive role models to future students.
Thu, Apr 26 2012

Laugh and the World Looks Better with Captioning
ccacblog FROM A CCAC MEMBER WHO KNOWS CAPTIONING! with his permission, and from his blog, see this, and have a good day [link] [link] thanks Micheal! JOIN US IN THE CCAC – STILL FREE! IF YOU KNOW HOW VALUABLE CAPTIONING INCLUSION IS, EVERY DAY. GO TO CCACAPTIONING.ORG AND CLICK TO BECOME A MEMBER. SE YOU IN [...]
Wed, Apr 25 2012

A Deaf Child in a Hearing School
submit by: Evelyn Hunter I was very confused and didn’t understand what had just happened. I started to doubt myself. What exactly did Mrs. Hargreaves tell me to do? To stand here? Go to the principal’s office? What?? Then the door opened and she came right at me. She grabbed the front of my blouse and shook me. A button popped off. She was angry, her face was red, her eyes bulge...
Wed, Apr 25 2012

YouTube Videos Create Unexpected Reaction for NTID Faculty...
NTID News Jason Listman, a faculty member in NTID's American Sign Language & Interpreter Education Department, has posted three music videos using ASL to YouTube. He's gotten hundreds of thousands of views and comments from fans around the world as a result.
Wed, Apr 25 2012

Diversifying Campus and Careers
NTID News Students at Rochester's John Marshall High School studying American Sign Language visited RIT/NTID recently to learn about what professional interpreters do and to decide whether interpreting may be a career option for them. The visit was part of a collaboration between RIT and Rochester City Schools to help expose students to career options and to better diversify th...
Wed, Apr 25 2012

DRobotZ Coming to RIT/NTID
NTID News A new summer camp is being offered at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute of the Deaf for deaf and hard-of-hearing boys and girls entering 9th or 10th grade in the fall. During DRobotZ, held July 28 to Aug. 10, 2012, the students will build and program a functional robot that they will take home with them after the two-week camp.
Wed, Apr 25 2012