Chris Kaftan - Stormin' the Internet
i711.com : Deaf News This Week I have a confession: I have a man-crush. After you read this, you'll understand why...
Media Language Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, Jun 18 2008 hide this blog

National Theatre of the Deaf be at National Association of...
DeafCasting.com MEDIA CONTACT: Vikee Waltrip [...]
Media Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, Jun 18 2008 hide this blog

Mighty Mouth: The Super Unhoo!
Signs of the Times I just saw a movie of Mighty Mouth, the super unhoo, strolling near Dog Canyon in the Sacramento Mountains. In this cartoon Mighty explains the difficulty of being a cartoon in a real world. He explains to the many illustrators that they should not worry how their cartoons turn out because they can always modify or change what they don't like about them as they draw...
Audism Art and Storytelling Tech Culture Wed, Jun 18 2008 hide this blog

Snake Tales: Stone Deaf
DeafJoke.tv Tags: animal, comic-strips, snake
Art and Storytelling Wed, Jun 18 2008 hide this blog

Minor Deaf Character in recent Adolescent Fiction Book
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature There is a very minor deaf character (so minor that this book won't be added to my 100+ and Counting List of Deaf Characters). Interestingly enough, the main character Rusty's "special skill" lipreading is a significant part of the plot. "At school [Rusty] had fun reading lips and claiming that he had super hearing because of eating a secret root" ...
Media Language Art and Storytelling Tue, Jun 17 2008 hide this blog

Uncle Bill’s Used Cochlear Implants - another comedy sketch
VB Deaf Stuff Also shown at Deaf Night live this past weekend in Norfolk, VA... a mega-hit! Everyone loved it! What do you think?
Art and Storytelling Tech Tue, Jun 17 2008 hide this blog

Video Relay Service - a Comedy Skit
VB Deaf Stuff Captures that all too familiar experience of waiting for VRS... plus, you ever wonder what really goes on behind that privacy screen?    
Art and Storytelling Tech Tue, Jun 17 2008 hide this blog

Speech Bloopers
Say What? Rose Godfrey's “Happy Farter Day” post reminded me of the bloopers deaf children and people too utter entirely by accident. Sometimes I wonder why we even bother with training deaf children who can't hear themselves well, to speak. Like myself. I'm stone deaf but have a fair speech which came from about 17 years of speech [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Tue, Jun 17 2008 hide this blog

Refreshening Deaf VIPs or Locals Encounters
Butterfly, like me...Deaf's v/blog Edited and Updated from March 2008 Hello,Refreshening means to stimulate (the memory). Deaf means, of course, Deaf people who are considered themselves as anything that identity their self as Deaf people. Encounter means a meeting with a person or thing, esp. a casual, unexpected, or brief meeting.Refreshening Deaf Encounters.After we met a lot of Deaf people at certa...
Art and Storytelling Culture Mon, Jun 16 2008 hide this blog

Ohmmmmmm . . .
Leaning on the Fence Years ago, when I was a young'un (I'd say I was about 13 or 14), I received two behind-the-ear aids. Now, back then, BTE models weren't the small, discreet ones you can get nowadays. They were huge and made you look like one of those aliens in the cantina scene in the first Star Wars movie. Forget about trying to "fit in" or remain inconspiciou...
Art and Storytelling Tech Mon, Jun 16 2008 hide this blog

Great Cued Speech Video
We Cue! I can't find a way to import the video to this website, so I'm going to have to give you a link back to the blog belonging to José Reyes: Not A Box - Cued Speech Final. José is the audiology grad student mentioned in Aaron's post "The Cued Speech Program in Fairfax County, Virginia". [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Mon, Jun 16 2008 hide this blog

Classic Joke: The Hotel
DeafJoke.tv A joke about a man and his deaf wife who was renting a motel room. It is told in sign language. Tags: deaf, hotel, married, noise
Art and Storytelling Mon, Jun 16 2008 hide this blog

Unhoo and the Rolling Hoos
Signs of the Times Testing... Testing...Testing One Two ThreeTesting... Testing...Testing One Two ThreeBa-Ba-Ba Bar-bara Ann...Ba-Ba-Black Sheep...Ba-Ba-Ba...Bah! Bah! Bah!That's the sound of rejection.Riding down the Alcan Highway, we're rolling onward towards the Last Frontier. Me sisters are playing make-believe and me folks are tuned in to the radio while I'm juggling thoughts in m...
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Jun 15 2008 hide this blog

Happy Father's Day
Love, Daddy It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. --Anne SextonI remember Dad as a handsome, impulsive young buck who lived life fast and furiously and was a bundle of fun. If this picture doesn't say it, then I'll give you two examples:When I was fifteen, Dad took me to the mall to shop for school clothes. He strode confidently through JC Penney’...
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Jun 15 2008 hide this blog

For Every Deaf Kenyan, A Better World
Fookem and Bug Written by Bug Most travelers dream about seeing the lions and wild animals roam the beautiful African plains and visit the rainforests. But Deaf man named Lance McWilliams of Longmont, Colorado has different experience. He didn't go there for the world's largest combination of density and “range of freedom” of wild animals populations and dive...
Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Jun 15 2008 hide this blog

True Funny story: Careless Signing
submit by: LChaim2007 I got mistake on my signing in my math class at high school when I taught the deaf student, but careless signed "F bleep" instead of reduces which I was supposed to sign. The deaf students got laughing so hard. My favorite teacher asked us what is signing (F...) so we all got embrassed with my teacher. That is funny history!
Language Art and Storytelling Education Sat, Jun 14 2008 hide this blog

Powerless Bully Bully Bully...Bull$hiT
Signs of the Times Have you meet those bullies? The ones who are deaf and "logical". The smart fools who write great idioms and amazing ironies. The intellectual idiots who write comments to belittle those who have less than perfect English. Those Fulla-Bulla.The Boastful Unhoos.The ones, with brown smudges on their knows, who walk around the hearing world and scavenge for what is cu...
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Fri, Jun 13 2008 hide this blog

ASL Laughs: “Little Red Riding Hood”
DeafJoke.tv Video humor story by John Lestina, ABC. Tags: animal, ASL-Story, John Lestina, wolf
Art and Storytelling Fri, Jun 13 2008 hide this blog

Marlee Matlin working on her Memoirs
submit by: Ken Rose Academy Award-winning actress and "Dancing With the Stars" sensation Marlee Matlin is working on a memoir, scheduled to come out in 2009 and tentatively titled "I'll Scream Later."
Art and Storytelling Culture Fri, Jun 13 2008 hide this blog

No One is Perfect - Not Even Marlee Matlin
Jamie Berke (About.com) According to this press release, Marlee Matlin will release her own autobiography (referred to as a memoir) in 2009. The book is expected to include her "confession" about her...
Media Art and Storytelling Thu, Jun 12 2008 hide this blog

New Sign Language Book
Fookem and Bug
Language Art and Storytelling Thu, Jun 12 2008 hide this blog

05.03.01 Siepee’s Monastery
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 48th clip - Title: Back to the Deaf Child - 6:30 m./4:29:16 h. This clip is posted with gratitude to my soul brother, eLiot Helman, who was my first “Aaron” voicing the myth for me in 1994 at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA. We first met at Gallaudet in 1981 when we performed together as [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Thu, Jun 12 2008 hide this blog

ASL and Deaf Literature Winners
submit by: RIT/NTID Literacy Contest The Deaf-Themed Literary Contest is over now and the winners have been selected by a team of jurors! Many thanks to EACH of you for your sharing your work with us and participating in the contest! As you can see from the winning entries, creating Deaf themed literary works in English and/or ASL become an artistic celebration of Deafhood!
Higher Education Language Art and Storytelling Culture Thu, Jun 12 2008 hide this blog

Schuyler's Monster--A Father Shares His Parenting Journey
DeafMom Bilateral perislvian polymicropgyria. That's the diagnosis that Robert Rummel-Hudson and his wife, Julie, received after two years of trying to figure out why their three-year-old daughter couldn't talk. They learned that this rare, neurological disorder, caused by a malformation in the brain, was the reason why their daughter Schuyler (pronounced s...
Art and Storytelling Thu, Jun 12 2008 hide this blog

Reminded Of My Status
Life In a Cone of Silence Cyborg: a person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device.At times I forget that I am a Cyborg. An organism that has both artificial and natural systems. Hearing with only the aid of a surgically implanted cochlear device. A manufactured device that only functions as a hearing replacement when the processor is ma...
Art and Storytelling Tech Culture Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog