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

Sleep Well? Hardly, but amusing anyway
icedpinkchampagne So, I have a long history of having nightmares or downright bizarre (but usually amusing) dreams. It's like my subconscious really likes to regurgitate little thoughts and fragments from my day and spin out a really crazy vivid dream.I thought I'd share all of the dreams I've had about cochlear implants so far. There's only been two, but when I think about it, I think...
Art and Storytelling Tech Culture Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

Natural Device
Oh I See.. ASL, a device of the hands, hands signing, technology free, a natural language of,sign language. ASL is an organic art form.
Language Art and Storytelling Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

Introducing Three Men and One Sign
DeafJoke.tv Signed by Rory, Peter, and Greg Director: Rory Editor: Andy Signers: Peter (Left Arm) and Greg (Right Arm) Three Deaf Men + One Deaf Joke, Interested? Watch and enjoy! Tags: hearing-aids, sign-language
Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

Mr. Holland’s Opus Trailer - Captioned
bill creswell Featuring Anthony Natalie (Deaf Actor) as 25 yr old Cole. When we're young our dreams lie out in front of us, there for the taking, and our plans seem so clear. But like many of us, Glenn Holland never could have predicted the course his own life would take, when he reluctantly accepts a job as [...]
Media Art and Storytelling Tech Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

AGBad's Back to Future
submit by: LChaim2007 The history been recorded that AGB's wife been using her oral through ABG's order in 1880. In 2008 Great Great Granddaugther discovered many lies about AGB's life to destroy deaf schools because of oralism movement. You find out yourself where is AGBad now? hehehehehe
Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Tue, Jun 10 2008 hide this blog

Thoughts on Rachel and DeafRead (Cartoon Blog)
Musings on communication Rachel Ejected!DeafRead booted Rachel because they felt she supported a commercial operation...Cochlear America has an auxiliary corps that they call the Cochlear Awareness Network composed of volunteer supporters. The company does not pay these volunteers, but offers them training and materials to do their work, and probably perks such as inspirin...
Art and Storytelling Tech Culture Tue, Jun 10 2008 hide this blog

Diamond busted
NorthTrue I remembered this happen in my classroom. Guess what
Art and Storytelling Education Tue, Jun 10 2008 hide this blog

Deaf Pillage and other dopamines
Signs of the Times Pay O. TayHey! Okay!*sipping on the tea**smoking from the pipe**offering you the smoke*Hours and Ours, Hours and Ours Remember Alice?Beautiful.Remember Rachel?Terrible.They gave her ASL.They gave her a T.V. (w/ no cc)Signing planted seed of smiles.Legendarily.Speaking granted need for smiles.Momentarily.Where are we?You and me.Walking through and through.Passing hoo. ...
Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Mon, Jun 09 2008 hide this blog

Being Slam-less
Say What? I was on my vacation last week and man, it was so good. I needed to take myself off the Internet and spend some time with my family. I celebrated my birthday and my fifth wedding anniversary. My husband and I went camping in a place that was completely isolated from civilization. No [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Mon, Jun 09 2008 hide this blog

U.S.S. Deafness Public
Amy Cohen Efron Watch Amy Cohen Efron telling the ASL story about the ship called, U.S.S. Deafness Public with a question at the end. What is your best answer, and why? From YouTube.com 2.25 minutes long. This video got stuck at the beginning, please move the cursor to play. [...]
Art and Storytelling Mon, Jun 09 2008 hide this blog

A new low for deaf ignorance?
I look so I can hear.... Bill Cresswell kindly transcribed this video clip from the BBC website. Jump to HERE for the transcription and video. Bryan Adams held a photographic exhibition to raise awareness about hearing loss, showcasing photos of celebrities. I thought it (almost) funny that he was keen to raise awareness, as is the BBC, but I couldn't even [...]
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Education Tech Mon, Jun 09 2008 hide this blog

Summer's Story- a film about the life of an ASL-CI User
The ASL-Cochlear Implant Community There is a new DVD created by an ASL-CI User. Check her website: www.summersstory.com. Summer Crider, who got her cochlear implant at age 6, uses both ASL and spoken English to communicate with her family and friends. This DVD contains four different films, the first one was made by her mother, Linda Crider. Linda talks about a mother's experience making the decision...
Art and Storytelling Culture Mon, Jun 09 2008 hide this blog

ASL Live! - Associate Producer Sean speaks…
NAD Conference [See post to watch QuickTime movie] Click on the picture, the video will appear. Press Space bar, the video will play/stop. (It may take some time to upload the video.)
Media Art and Storytelling Mon, Jun 09 2008 hide this blog

ASL Live! - Producer Jackie speaks…
NAD Conference [See post to watch QuickTime movie] Click on the picture, the video will appear. Press Space bar, the video will play/stop. (It may take some time to upload the video.)
Media Art and Storytelling Mon, Jun 09 2008 hide this blog

Music & Sign Singing
All The Young Dudes I love music. I am song and dance man, not so much a fan of instrumentals. As is the lot of Deafies and deafies, some of us may well be able to speak, but when it comes to singing, we probably sound like Pierre and his choir of felines in heat. Still, there is sign singing, [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Mon, Jun 09 2008 hide this blog

Oral Deaf Character in Recently Released Teen Novel
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature Read My Lips (June 2008) by Teri Brown Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Simon Pulse Ages: 14 and up Grades: 9 and up ISBN-10: 1416958681 Product Description Popularity is as easy as a good secret. Serena just wants to fly under the radar at her new school. But Serena is deaf, and she can read lips really well-even across the busy cafeteria. So when the popular girls d...
Media Art and Storytelling Sun, Jun 08 2008 hide this blog

The Crossroads
Devil’s Playground What would you be prepared to do, to satisfy a desire for knowledge, power, status or change in life circumstances? What would you be prepared to trade off to achieve this knowledge, power, status or change in life circumstances? Decision making is not always a simple task of “either, or”, but a series of trade-offs [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Jun 08 2008 hide this blog

Kiss-Fist Magazine
The Rosa Lee Show Kiss-Fist is a family online magazine founded as a project by brother-and-sister team, Rosa Lee and Frank Gallimore. It is a “word-of-hand” magazine dedicated to spread the word about our family, friends, and know-whos' craft. Whether it be off the beaten path, art, poetry, fiction, photography, or even works that defy categorization. [...]
Media Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Jun 08 2008 hide this blog

05.02.01 Siepee’s Monastery
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 47th Clip - Title: Discovering the Deaf Girls - (04:26 m. - 4:22:46 h.) This clip is posted with homage to Charles-Michel de l'Epee who created the first Deaf “sacred” space by establishing an educational institution critical in the nascence of sign languages, deaf culture, and deaf communities. It is important to note that he [...]
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Education Culture Sun, Jun 08 2008 hide this blog

Deaf Truffaut on l'Epee
Travel with ChaRly This is a 2 minutes video clip of a French deaf historian, Bernard Truffaut, signing in LSF the story of how l'Epee met the two deaf girls, an event which led him to establish the world's first public manual (signing) school for the deaf in Paris.  This event is considered a French deaf "genesis" legend very much comparable to the American deaf "genesis" story of Thom...
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Jun 08 2008 hide this blog

Swimming in the Sea of D
Signs of the Times The day they took us out of the ocean, they began their experiment. They transported us in trucks with small reservoirs. We sloshed and splashed the whole way to the laboratory. They then grabbed us by our arms and legs and carried us into the pool. We were kept in a large barren tank full of water. One end of the pool had a window and a camera.There were many of...
Art and Storytelling Sun, Jun 08 2008 hide this blog

The Crossroads: A Yearning & A Portrayal
Devil’s Playground At the end of my previous post,The Crossroads, I mentioned that I am currently working on a story about a Deaf boy who wants to be a rock star. There is only one way he is going to become a rock star, and that is by becoming hearing. For those who must know, yes, it [...]
Art and Storytelling Sun, Jun 08 2008 hide this blog

Graduating, Interpreting & Realizing
Sudden Silence When my kids were born 4 years apart, it never dawned on me that one day I would be attending two graduations just a couple of days apart. The schools here are broken up into elementary (K-3), intermediate (4-5), middle (6-8th) and high school (9-12). They have a big ceremony for 8th grade [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Sat, Jun 07 2008 hide this blog