Parliament: Subtitling & Sign Language on Television
Grumpy Old Deafies A question in parliament around subtitling on television: Rosie Cooper (PPS (Mr Ben Bradshaw, Minister of State), Department of Health; West Lancashire, Labour) What steps are being taken to ensure that television programmes are accessible to deaf children—and deaf adults, for that matter—through more comprehensive subtitling and sign language for programmes? Andy ...
Audism Tech Culture Tue, May 13 2008 · 6 minutes ago hide this blog

Edward Miner Gallaudet’s 1881 Review of the Milan Convention
found in blank At California School for the Deaf (Fremont), there's a library bookshelf with several shelves of American Annals of the Deaf from the 1840s onward. Because of my Deafhood class, my eyes immediately searched for the 1881 volume; surely there would be some articles about the Milan Convention of 1880. Sure enough–there's several of ‘em. The [...]
Language Audism Education Tue, May 13 2008 · 51 minutes ago hide this blog

Why boycott Sorenson? And other answers
Open the Directory! I get asked this a lot. Why petition Sorenson? Why not other companies? Aren't they all in this? None of them are yet taking the bold step to fully commit to a solution bringing 10 digit phone numbers to videophones, so why did I choose Sorenson? I explain below. 1. It [...]
Audism Education Tech Mon, May 12 2008 · 14 hours ago hide this blog

What to do???
Confessions of a DeafBlind Mother Been a busy couple of months here in Oklahoma! Finally got my Permanent Resident card from Immigrations back in January. Then went to get my SSN # (thats SIN # for you canucks). Started job hunting with hardly any luck, living in a town of 5,000 people with the big companies being WalMart, Lowe's and Walgreen's. Got a call from Walgreen's to come in and finish th...
Higher Education Audism Mon, May 12 2008 · 16 hours ago hide this blog

Is Hamill Right or Wrong?
Mishka Zena When I first heard about a hearing actor being cast in a deaf leading role, my initial response was dismay.  Learning it was Hamill's decision left me astounded.   The more I ponder this, the more questions I have.   Does this mean Hamill sees himself as being more of a hearing person than a Deaf person because he grew [...]
Media Audism Culture Mon, May 12 2008 · 19 hours ago hide this blog

First Sucessful Claim of Disability Discrimination against...
Grumpy Old Deafies The first disability discrimination case has been brought against a recruitment agency, Sales Link Services, and won. The case in hand concerned a deaf person, Pauline Alexander: "I was asked to phone in, which I did using TypeTalk [a relay telephone service for deaf people]," says Alexander. "The person I spoke to said he thought my hearing loss would be an impedim...
Audism Legal Culture Mon, May 12 2008 · 21 hours ago hide this blog

Me? Hearing Person??
Butterfly, like me...Deaf's v/blog 7.12 minutes long videoHi, ASLpride just mentioned that he was mistakenly identified as a hearing person. Where is ASLpride?? Anyway, it was a funny story. Go to this link, if you missed his story. I would like to share this with you. It is not only one time experience, but hundreds time, uh, no, thousands time, yeah.It was no fun in the beginning. Whenever anyone ask...
Audism Culture Mon, May 12 2008 · 23 hours ago hide this blog

21: Cheers to NTID/RIT and Gallaudet
The Countdown To The Resurrection Condescending. That is the word that first came to me when I think of Matt Hamill. Double cheers to Amy Cohen-Efron for alerting the communities about Matt Hamill picking a hearing actor to perform as Deaf person. The result is that it sends a ripple effect to Washington and Rochester where they subsequently cancelled [...]
Media Audism Culture Sun, May 11 2008 · hide this blog

Deaf Awareness Week: People Of The Lie
All The Young Dudes I've always hated Deaf Awareness Week. It was never about who we are as people, but who we are as “sufferers” of an affliction, a medical condition, a problem, an impairment, a disability, for which some medicos and deaf awareness raisers come up with such dehumanisating terms as neurologically devastated, implanted, or users of sign [...]
Audism Culture Sat, May 10 2008 · hide this blog

BREAKING NEWS: Gallaudet cancels HAMILL (movie) auditions!
Amy Cohen Efron BREAKING NEWS! Gallaudet University decided not to host auditions with K’Dee Miller Productions, LLC for HAMILL:The Movie on May 12, 2008. Matt Hamill is known as the “The Hammer”, The Ultimate Fighter. He is Deaf American wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter. I just got off the phone this morning with the Theater [...]
Media Higher Education Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Fri, May 09 2008 · hide this blog

SATIRE: Don’t Cry For Me Deaf Society
All The Young Dudes Here's just one more for the road. You all know the musical EVITA, and the song Don't Cry For Me Argentina. I give you, Don't Cry For Me Deaf Society. This is really easy, you'll think it's not Let me try to explain how I feel That I still need your love After all that I've embezzled You won't believe [...]
Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Fri, May 09 2008 · hide this blog

BSL Recognition: Tender to Improve Access & Demand for BSL
Grumpy Old Deafies Following the meeting with the Prime Minister in February, the Department for Children Schools and Families are planning to announce the publication of a tender for a project to improve access to and demand for BSL. The relevant DCSF page by Lord Adonis can be found here, and the direct link to the document is here [Word] (the link on their website does not work). B...
Audism Education Legal Culture Fri, May 09 2008 · hide this blog

Celebrating Neurological Devastation Week
All The Young Dudes In honour of RNID's erudite campaign to celebrate their astute awareness program, World Without Sound, The Dude has worked his fingers to the bone to ensure that he can contribute to the campaign. Much thanks to GOD, and Joe losing his cool, for bringing this neglected campaign to my attention. For the first time ever, in [...]
Audism Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Perfecting the art of being deaf
gwallgofi Reading this The Sickness of Deaf Awareness Week: Imagine A World Without Sound at Grumpy Old Deafies...I started to comment...but it became a blog post and so is trackbacked to the site as a comment instead. ======== Imagine a world of silence? Wonderful! It's so peaceful and I don't have to listen to the wife's nagging anymore! Nor do [...]
Audism Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Nightmare Invasion
Deaf Cinematic FilmBlog Click To Play BE WARNED: You are at risk of experiencing unruly emotions if you choose to click "play" to watch this short film. Your emotions will come alive and take your sensibilities on a ride that includes emotional spins, twists and turns. Parents: Please preview the film before you allow your children watch it.This surreal film carries a message a...
Audism Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

The Sickness of Deaf Awareness Week: Imagine A World...
Grumpy Old Deafies Its Deaf Awareness Week, and the RNID has excelled itself at being the most patronising and paternalistic deaf organisation on planet earth. Before I go on, its no secret that I have my reservations about Deaf Awareness Week, but that is the subject of another blog post. However, I would imagine the aim of such a week was supposed to be about deaf people - in whatev...
Audism Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Karen and Steak 'n Shake
Jim's DEEP Thoughts Karen who I have nominated for Gratitude with Attitude Award is still not getting answers from Steak 'n Shake which you can read more about it in Disaboom. I won't be visiting Steak n Shake until the company do something about their situation for their customers with disabilities.
Language Audism Tech Wed, May 07 2008 · hide this blog

A Film Documentary about Deaf on HBO - Title - “Hear And...
Insane World of Misha Hello, everyone! Via DeafVideo.tv, the deaf has been discussing this HBO's upcoming film documentary on an elderly couple receiving C.I. after being in silence for 65 years. That got me curious what is the big deal about it. I went to google and found out a little information. I'll post this link at [...]
Media Audism Art and Storytelling Wed, May 07 2008 · hide this blog

O & B last event of the year - Deaf Bilingual Coaltion
Orange Brown Coalition Orange and Brown Coalition presents:The DBC – what’s all the buzz about????The Deaf Bilingual Coalition“Sign from the Start… Success for a Lifetime”Wanna Know More????? come find out!
Language Audism Culture Wed, May 07 2008 · hide this blog

Steak 'n Shake Issue Still Creating PR Waves
Karen Remember when I had the drive-thru window shut in my face (not once, but twice!) back in January? The issue continues to ripple on. In April, it was the subject of Laurel Papworth's presentation at the RMIT Communicator of the Year event in... Australia. That's right, Steak 'n Shake has gone down under. Laurel has an excellent presentation on why companies need ...
Audism Legal Wed, May 07 2008 · hide this blog

I Am Against Oralism Because...
Deaf Progressivism Summary: Someone asked me if I were against oralists when I know s/he must have meant oralism because to be against oralists just because they can speak is outrageous! So my response to this modified question is, yes, I am against oralism but not spoken English. Let me share you that the term oralism to me is a stigma. It is associated with “force” for some even “abu...
Language Audism Culture Tue, May 06 2008 · hide this blog

May is "Better Speech and Hearing Month"
Jim's DEEP Thoughts I have been thinking of the comments regarding my post Disability Harassment Some of the comments were: When I was a kid, only the deaf kids at Mark Keppel school (ASL) bullied me while Field (oral) school deafies didn't. Students never bullied a hearing aid user at Maryland School. It was at Gallaudet when the user experienced the first ridicule and was asked, "Why h...
Higher Education Language Audism Education Culture Tue, May 06 2008 · hide this blog

Diversity World not Hearing World
Sojourner Deaf people have language of their own; they have a beautiful community with similar beliefs and tradition which creates a culture of their own. They hardly ever think about their “deafness” not unless a hearing person reminds them, “can you read lips?” Or when a hearing person stares at the gesture, “paper and pen.” Or when hearing operators hang up on their relay ca...
Language Audism Tech Culture Sun, May 04 2008 · hide this blog

Closed Captions--Much Better with DTV
Musings on communication The coupons arrived in the mail last week for $40 discounts on digital-to-analog TV converters. I did worry about whether digital TV would display captions, so held off on buying any digital-ready TVs. Why? I had more TVs than people living here. Bah. Besides, I thought, when they all stop working after the digital broadcasts began, DVDs would...
Media Audism Tech Sun, May 04 2008 · hide this blog

BI/CI Comparison? Why, sure! Deafhood Minions? Oh, Please!
Deaf Progressivism This Anti-Deafhood priest and minions dissed people who support Deafhood and I have to tell you how much I have laughed so hard when reading that I couldn’t even take them seriously. Ok, just mock us all you want but my views stand based on the facts coming from FDA and no one can dispute that. Why of course, getting BI and CI is for a completely different reason alt...
Audism Tech Culture Sun, May 04 2008 · hide this blog