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

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