Released tomorrow: T4 by Ann Clare LeZotte
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature T4 (September 22, 2008) by Ann Clare LeZotte Reading level: Ages 9-12112 pagesPublisher: Houghton Mifflin It is 1939. Paula Becker, thirteen years old and deaf, lives with her family in a rural German town. As rumors swirl of disabled children quietly disappearing, a priest comes to her family's door with an offer to shield Paula from an uncertain fate. When the sanct...
Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Sep 21 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

I’m A Barbie Girl, Ive Been Implanted
Mephisto's Comedy Festival I just couldn't help myself. The inane lyrics, a pean to bimboism, just wouldn't stop churning around in my head. Once the word implanted found it's way into the song, well, as they say, “The Rest Is History!” Hi Barbie Hi Ken! Do you wanna get implanted? Sure Ken! Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... I'm a barbie girl, I’ve been impla...
Audism Art and Storytelling Tech Sun, Sep 21 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Conditioning
Oh I See! One of the benefits of using DVTV is getting stories from others through video comments when it relates to your posted topic. After posting this vlog that I edited together for fun as it relates to a personal experience and more, a commenter shared a story of his deaf childhood friend's telling him one time, "Don’t sign" in public. As his story goes, one day they went...
Language Audism Culture Sun, Sep 21 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

All about Interpreters
Going Deaf So this post will be about interpreters. I've had some interesting encounters recently that I would like to share.As some of you know, I recently was fitting fo rmy first hearing aid. I brought along my trusted friend and interpreter that goes to all of my appointments with medical. So we got there and got up to the receptionist. This poor woman *laughs*. She mus...
Language Audism Culture Fri, Sep 19 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Lauren Ridloff - Deaf Provocateurs
Channel i Vlogs Remember when ASL wasn't recognized as a language? Challenging commonly held views can bring about real change, as Lauren explains. Let us show you how to stir things up in a fresh and exciting way.
Higher Education Language Audism Tech Culture Wed, Sep 17 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Harassment of Deaf Gays and Lesbians
Mishka Zena Apparently it is becoming a serious problem in DVTV. Deaf Christians are imposing their religious values and making righteous judgements on Deaf Gays. Normally I avoid religious topics. There's an excellent reason why people shouldn't talk about religions, politics, and money... it gets people all fired up and damages friendships.   However, what IR...
Language Audism Legal Culture Tue, Sep 16 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Charity, where does it start ?
At The Rim RNID CALLS FOR MORE HELP FOR DEAF DURING HERITAGE OPEN DAYS The RNID is calling on more tourist attractions to ensure greater accessibility. As Heritage Open Days, the annual celebration of the nation’s heritage, kicks off across the UK today the UK’s foremost charity for the deaf is urging the tourism industry to ensure greater accessibility for the country’s nine ...
Audism Culture Tue, Sep 16 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Did They Love ASL's World? They Don't!
Deaf Fort Can you tell me why they did not join the ASL's Club? They prefer think the hearing can help these people can hear, Not ASL!
Media Audism Mon, Sep 15 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

A Dark Moment of Deaf History
testing_the_truth Hi Everyone, yes I am talking about Black Friday, October 13, 2006. On this outrageous day many of us read the on-line news reports of favorite protest bloggers Elisa and MishkaZena with broken hearts. Why? Because of the the arrest of 133 brave protest warriors at the Gallaudet University! I am talking about this year, when current presidential candidate John M...
Media Higher Education Language Audism Culture Mon, Sep 15 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Hitler Downfall Copyright
daveynin's thing I posted this video clip, "Hitler Ultimate Downfall: Sign Language" on my YouTube and posted in my blog entry in March 2008. Sometime in May 2008, I discovered that YouTube quietly removed this video clip due to a copyright...
Media Language Audism Art and Storytelling Fri, Sep 12 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Lights Down on Deaf Athlete’s Paralympic debut
DeafDC.com Teigan Van Roosmalen, a deaf Australian swimmer, missed the start of a final race in Beijing on Tuesday at the Paralympic Games after the light on the block that was supposed to coincide with the starter gun malfunctioned. They immediately re-ran the race, so she was still able to participate.  She came in eighth. Still, [...]
Media Audism Legal Culture Thu, Sep 11 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

“Do you think Martin can succeed as a deaf model?”
Welcome to ... Seek Geo!      I bet many of you know I'm big reality fan and love to follow nearly every reality shows out there. One day, even though I was a little late, I found out that there is a deaf model on one of reality shows called The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. I jumped in ready [...]
Media Audism Culture Thu, Sep 11 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The non-starters
Saltbar Just a quick entry to show what have been playing on my mind a lot in the last 24 hours. Whilst I am really proud for Team GB who did fantastically well in the Beijing Olympics. I am also equally proud for the British Paralympics for having equally successful time in Beijing at the very moment. [...]
Audism Culture Wed, Sep 10 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf Militants Rising!!
Third Eye Nothing Its time to march, march with our black shiny leather boots. The laces colored blue representing Deaf Culture and opression dating back to Nazism. Time for us to raise our right fist and cover our ear with left hand. Shout out, "Enough is enough!!". Our shirts in camo color with yellow letters saying Deaf Militant wore upon us. War is coming whenever you like it or no...
Audism Tech Culture Wed, Sep 10 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me! Gimme All Your Money!
Mephisto's Musings A recent campaign [if that what it was? I don't know, because I've never seen it, until Gary from The Rebuttal, sent me a copy of the ad] the Cora Barclay Centre commissioned an ad that juxtaposed negative images of Deaf People and Sign Language, with a positive spin on speech and so called normality, To Get At [...]
Media Language Audism Culture Wed, Sep 10 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Public Backlash Against "4th grade reading level" in...
Jamie Berke (About.com) A television station in Mississippi reports that after they aired an interview with an interpreter who said his job was important because of how prevalent the fourth grade reading level...
Media Language Audism Education Tue, Sep 09 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Guest Blogger–Another Mom's Journey
A Deaf Mom Shares Her World Today's post is from a close friend of mine, Sue Klytta. Sue and I met back in college and we've shared a lot together, including raising deaf and hard of hearing kids. We've had many conversations over the years about our kids and we've shook our heads at the twisting roads that we've [...]
Language Audism Education Tech Culture Tue, Sep 09 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Lip-reading, a UK cause for concern ?
At The Rim Probably the worst lip-reading vid you will ever see....Lip-reading issues are surfacing again in the UK, mainly about the way they are run,and who they are for. Classes are diminishing rapidly nation-wide. The fact is many put off learning lip-reading skills until it is too late really to get maximum benefit from them, the reluctance, of the UK government to back a...
Higher Education Language Audism Tech Culture Tue, Sep 09 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Is Technology Killing Deaf People?
The Rebuttal I've seen three miracles this week. I saw a curly headed deaf boy convert from sign to fluent speech. I saw a deaf twin pretending to be her hearing twin and speaking so well we could not tell the difference. I then saw a whole host of deaf kids listening and enjoying music on headphones [...]
Media Language Audism Education Tech Culture Tue, Sep 09 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Disability or just culture thing?
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers I observed that when a deaf person is being laughed at or chided due to incoherent and often grammatically crazy English, they argued by saying, this is part of deaf culture. But when they don't understand simple written instructions, they excuse themselves by saying they are disabled. We call this situation in Tagalog, "sala sa init, sala sa lamig" or "not fit for ei...
Audism Culture Mon, Sep 08 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Meddling People
Mountain Mama Just as I feared, it happened this morning-- a visit from Child Protective Services.The morning began as it always does, our usual doings as we wake up and start the day. I was sitting in the living room nursing the baby and the girls were playing with their Barbies when Hubby came in and told me there was a guy here from Child Protective Services (CPS), here to see ...
Audism Mon, Sep 08 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Read my lips C-A-R-E-F-U-L-L-Y
I look so I can hear.... I'm disgusted. The BBC have come out with a whopper. Not only do they not bother to subtitle online content, they have just uploaded a video about deaf children and cochlear implants - with NO subtitles and NO transcript. How am I supposed to understand it? Am I supposed to lipread this? You've got to be [...]
Media Language Audism Tech Culture Mon, Sep 08 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

That AD Again!
The Rebuttal Like a dog to a bone I can not leave this one alone.  A couple of deaf friends have contacted me asking for a transcript of the THAT AD - I have pasted a transcript below this paragraph. The first part is the Voice Over of the signing version provided by the young lad .. [...]
Media Language Audism Culture Sun, Sep 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Another Person Denied Health Insurance for Being Deaf?
Jamie Berke (About.com) Do deaf people get denied health insurance for having a hearing loss? This topic was blogged two years ago in "Denied Health Insurance for Having Deafness." Now there is a...
Audism Legal Sun, Sep 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

WHAT HAPPENED AT INVESCO: Accessibility Problems
The Deaf Perspective This is not an easy post for me to write.The day of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech dawned on all of us and we were truly excited about it. Everything was historic about this day – the fact that an African American would get a nomination from a major political party for the first time on the day that Martin Luther King JR made his “I Have a Dream” speech 45 years ago...
Higher Education Language Audism Legal Culture Fri, Sep 05 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post