Someone to watch over me...
At The Rim There's a somebody I'm longing to seeI hope that he, turns out to beSomeone who'll watch over me...OK today's sermon is about, perceptions of deaf culture, and the allied impaired communities with hearing loss (Not been done before has it ?).Here is an advert (Sorry deaf.read !), for a worker in the field of deaf support, your task, should you decide to undertake it,...
Media Audism Culture Fri, Jun 20 2008 hide this blog

Doctors and Deaf Patients: saying NO to relay?
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!How many times have you and your doctor use a relay service to communicate? Some time? All times? or NONE at all?It seems these days that there's STILL discrimination going on when doctors try to communicate over the phone and through a VRS (relay services). Do doctors go through with the call or hang up? Answer: They hang up.Here's today's action featu...
Audism Tech Legal Thu, Jun 19 2008 hide this blog

Doctors and the relay - Hung up?
RSGeo-007 Has anyone had a doctor appointment seemingly be cancelled for no reason, and when you show up at the office, no one is there and you find out that the doctor's on vacation or something? Then when you check your emails, you see a collection of relay calls that you don't know who they're from, who called, and they're all hangups? I sent this message to the Quality Mana...
Audism Tech Legal Thu, Jun 19 2008 hide this blog

DeafRead, Deaf Village, Aggregators, Part III:...
All The Young Dudes To answer Mike's question in Hypocrisy? Double Standards? You be the judge, those of us who are arguing against point 5 in the deaf village guidelines, are not the ones going around creating aggregators, then imposing a set of rules that determine what blogs, posts, et al will appear, and other assorted criteria in a [...]
Language Audism Tech Culture Thu, Jun 19 2008 hide this blog

Audist Hysteria
submit by: Noah Buchholz An infamous Salem Witchcraft Trials put fourteen women and five men to death after the widespread of blaming. The Second Red Scare, McCarthyism, greatly oppressed the freedom of speech and caused many people to lose their jobs . Now, are we, the Deaf, creating another tragic event by labeling many hearing people as audists without educating them how they can be improv...
Language Audism Culture Thu, Jun 19 2008 hide this blog

Steak & Shake Denies Service to Deaf Patron
Bionic Ear My friend Karen Putz is the person behind the story! Captioned and ASL video. And of course, her blog entries on the topic....
Media Audism Tech Legal Thu, Jun 19 2008 hide this blog

ABC Story: “The Cochlear Slayer”
Dr. DonG.'s Deafhood Discourses Last Spring, I did an  ABC story for my University's Deaf Studies Program.  The interpreter at the performance also happens to interpret for my classes, and she knows my feelings and opinions about the Cochlear Implant.  The performance was titled “The Vampire Slayer”, but she misinterpreted it as “The Cochlear Slayer”.  She told me about...
Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Thu, Jun 19 2008 hide this blog

Unity, How? Mutual Respect ~
The Ear of My Heart Unity doesn't mean trying to be the same. Unity means showing mutual “respect.” Live and let live.
Language Audism Culture Thu, Jun 19 2008 hide this blog

Access Denied
At The Rim You aren't accessible either !Making ASL vblogs specifically for ASL people ? They aren't just doing that, they are offering comment and responses to other deaf people, but sadly in a format not understood. How will captions affect that ? Bi-linguality of the deaf means text/captions is access too. I support the Village ASKING for ASL bloggers WHO ARE ABLE, to ...
Audism Tech Culture Thu, Jun 19 2008 hide this blog

Fear of Crime Restricts Deaf Ability to Order at McDonalds
Jamie Berke (About.com) Emg4963 has posted on the forum about the frustration a deaf brother had in trying to order at a McDonald's drive-in window late at night. The brother tried to hand...
Media Audism Tech Legal Wed, Jun 18 2008 hide this blog

Encouraging Interpreters
submit by: LChaim2007 I may share with interpreters who recognize my vlog "Misinterpreting by Interpreters" I do not want to offend to any of interpreters about my vlogs issue. BUT I want to encourage them to understand how deaf person face problem with interpreter and not want them to do same as I went through! It is important to educate interpreters to get better in their ability and kno...
Language Audism Culture Wed, Jun 18 2008 hide this blog

Lisa A. Goldstein - NetFlicks Deaf Consumers
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Another option now exists for online movie rentals. Netflix just released the Netflix Player by Roku...
Media Audism Tech Wed, Jun 18 2008 hide this blog

My Reason to find this Deaf Village’s Silly Policy…..
Insane World of Misha Hello, everyone.... I'm not going to put up the transcription for the Deaf Village's benefit.  They can figure it out.  Tough Luck. My apologies that this video looks choppy and little slow.  I've been having some trouble with it for a while.  If you can't understand, please let me know so I [...]
Language Audism Tech Culture Wed, Jun 18 2008 hide this blog

Come to NTID 40th Reunion and FIGHT the A.G.Bell Dorm name!
The Deaf Sherlock G'day everyone!I felt I needed to throw the glove down against a video logger: Jack's Eyes. ( [link] ). I hate to say I'm sorry that I can't go to The Deaf Bilingual Coalition (DBC) conference. But it's MORE important that our ALUMNI of NTID comes to the NTID 40th Reunion on the campus of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and get the message out LOUD and CLEA...
Higher Education Audism 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

COME ON TO MILWAUKEE AND SUPPORT DBC!
Jack's eyes Produced by Jack Barr   Edited by Darrell Roby [link]
Language Audism Education Culture Tue, Jun 17 2008 hide this blog

Deaf Village - A True Village? Nay!
Simply Saunière Guess what? I have severe doubts about deaf village's (taking a cue from Tony Nicholas) ability to truly include everyone and to be respectful about all perspectives. So I submitted my blog to test their commitment to their mission. I was right. They said no. Here is the e-mail I received:Saunière,The Deaf Village team has reviewed your blog and discussed whether toal...
Language Audism Tech Culture Tue, Jun 17 2008 hide this blog

ASL, Captioning, and the Puppetmaster.
Signs of the Times Hello!*ahh*Excuse me.*removing the plant in the way*Thank you.Okay, I'm here today because we have been discussing Closed Captioning.CC Closed Captioning, read my lips can? CLOSED CAPTIONING. CC.Perfect!You know those who speak and hear?Those who throw upon us the English language.You know Deaf people?Can they skillfully write in English?Yes, there are.In fact, many o...
Language Audism Tech Culture 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

You're crazy
Oh I See.. My response to Deaf Village's requirement to add CC in vlogs.Intended to create apathy toward ASL or drive ASL vloggers away? No thanks. Once again folks, your choice is optimal.
Language Audism Tech Culture Sun, Jun 15 2008 hide this blog

Spotting the Deaf Militant
At The Rim Now pay attention at the back there, this is a serious issue to part, that of solving the problem of what divides us all. I tried Mathematics (Not my strong point so don't write, sign or throw anything).Formula guide: X=culture, Y=Language, Z=Access, D=Deaf, d=deaf, N=Diversity, M=Acceptance, P=Inclusion, U=Unity.UP=(D+d) x (X+Y+Z)+DM squared. Forget Einstein he was...
Audism Culture Sun, Jun 15 2008 hide this blog

Keep Our Light Alive!
Deaf Chipmunk This is about our energy that can help enhance our DBC light. It will make many audist cockroaches running away. If our energy is less, cochroaches will come back and create more litters. Please “Keep our Light Alive”. Of course cochroaches will not have much time to spread their myth [...]
Audism Culture Sun, Jun 15 2008 hide this blog

DBC the Light!
Deaf Chipmunk This is about DBC and anti DBC. Every time I skake my head at anti ASL/Bilingual people who attack DBC and its clear and common sense mission. Your inputs are always welcome except unreasonable negative attacks. Constructive discussions (agree or disagree) will be published. Deafchip
Language Audism Tech Culture Sat, Jun 14 2008 hide this blog

Perspective of a Child of Hearing Parents: A Response
Shel: A Deaf Canadian's Thoughts Readers, this is my response to a comment made by the author of A Weeping ASL Deaf User on the Cochlear Implant Online blog. ( [link] OpenMinded Deaf Observer,This is in response to your comment (#59)I’m sorry for your pain of feeling “subhuman” in your family of hearing people.I am a Child Of Hearing Parents like you. However, you and I differ in our perspectives of...
Language Audism Education Tech Culture Fri, Jun 13 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