ALERT! The battle on the AG Bell dorm continues
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!Just got alerted that that there will be a open Forum on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at 2pm in the CSD Student Development Center room 1300 (see the info on the web page: [link] )I would encourage any of the NTID alumni living in the Rochester, NY metro area to go to this meeting and report on it. The AG Bell dorm discussion is very important. But on...
Higher Education Audism Tue, Jun 03 2008 hide this blog

Bell dorm open forum June 4th and O and B email to NTID...
Orange Brown Coalition June 4th Wed at 2 pm in the CSD Student Development Center room 1300 - there will be an open forum to discuss the dorm named in AG Bell's honor------------Faculty and Staff have been sending reply all messages to the NTID community since the decision on the dorm name was originally announced. O & B sent out a reply all message yesterday:Greetings to members of ou...
Higher Education Audism Culture Tue, Jun 03 2008 hide this blog

Whose Story is It Anyway?
Devil’s Playground As I wrote in The Tree Of Knowledge, with reference to the writer David Lodge, Deafness is a personal experience and the journey towards acceptance/ acclimatising to one's Deafness is a personal one. For some writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, dancers, actors, and multimedia artists, it is a source of inspiration for their work. How they depict [...]
Media Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Tue, Jun 03 2008 hide this blog

Language Piracy of a Different Type
Kalalau's Korner Like all sign languages around the world, American Sign Language (ASL) is completely global. We view the world through our own sign language and culture, and we can translate and interpret for ourselves.In a true democracy, each of us must have sign language to review the facts and, through a critical discourse, participate in actions and events that will support our ...
Language Audism Tue, Jun 03 2008 hide this blog

Update to "How to Stop Spread of Fourth Grade Myth"
Berke Outspoken This is the language in the article that concerned me:"Most deaf adults read at no better than a fourth-grade level, he said, and it is directly related to the education they have received. Without early detection of an impairment and early education, deaf children are doomed to fall way behind."Note that it says MOST when it is supposed to be a median. That term "med...
Language Audism Education Mon, Jun 02 2008 hide this blog

Too Advantaged Yet Still Disabled
DeafDC.com All right, let me get this straight.  First the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) told Oscar Pistorius that he was ineligible for the 2008 Summer Olympics... not because he's a double amputee without a chance in hell of beating, much less competing against, “able-bodied” runners, but because he has an unfair advantage over them [...]
Media Audism Tech Legal Mon, Jun 02 2008 hide this blog

Paging Dr. Idiot . . .
Leaning on the Fence On the evening of June 14, 2005, I received a rude lesson in basic physics. That lesson is as follows: when a person steps on a child’s toy that just happens to have wheels on it, pain will be involved. The human knee is probably the worst-designed part of the human anatomy. It’s basically a bunch of bones sitting on top of each other connect...
Audism Legal Mon, Jun 02 2008 hide this blog

Diseases Of Schools For The Deaf
PreciousASL Comments seen about views of ASL made by teachers and administrators in recent months:"This student does not have any language. He cannot learn. He doesn't understand what I am trying to teach him. He needs to move to a slower class."A new student from mainstreamed school who never learned ASL before enrolling into the school for the deaf. The thing was the student pi...
Language Audism Education Mon, Jun 02 2008 hide this blog

NEWS FLASH!
Deaf Bilingual Coalition DBC CONFERENCE SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED! DBC Founder, JOHN EGBERT, along with ELLA MAE LENTZ, DAVID O. REYNOLDS, and DE announce top-notch speakers for the DBC EDUCATION CONFERENCE in Milwaukee! The DBC Education Conference schedule has been released! See in the box at left, DBC Conference Schedule . Click on the schedule you want to see (note: this will take you to a P...
Media Language Audism Education Culture Mon, Jun 02 2008 hide this blog

What If Steak ‘n Shake Gave Customers the Red Carpet?
A Deaf Mom Shares Her World On the flight home from Oahu, I dove into The Celebrity Experience: Insider Secrets to Delivering Red Carpet Customer Service written by Donna Cutting.  I met Donna at the SOBCon ‘08 conference — what a warm, engaging person she is!   Donna speaks all over the country on the topic of improving customer service and she [...]
Audism Legal Mon, Jun 02 2008 hide this blog

How to Stop Spread of Fourth Grade Myth
Berke Outspoken Over the weekend I blogged a news article at About.com that had the usual mention of the average fourth grade reading level for deaf students. Every time a newspaper, magazine. or television program mentions that, it hurts the deaf community. Not only that we get told about parents "determined" that their child will not be "like that," automatically setting the stage ...
Media Language Audism Education Mon, Jun 02 2008 hide this blog

Adult Swim finger-spelling bump
Sam Dunn To see in QuickTime for clear frame to frame. Click here. Friend of mine brought an interest video clip that been pick up from Adult Swim under Cartoon Network. It show the most speed-up finger-spelling. Whoa, it's too fast for most of us to read it. So, I made the copy and put on QuickTime [...]
Language Audism Tech Mon, Jun 02 2008 hide this blog

The Best Advice I Ever Got
Leaning on the Fence I just got done reading thumpaflash latest blog entry (dated June 1st). If you haven't read it yet, do yourself a favor and go read it RIGHT NOW. There's a story in my book, Tarnished Halos and Crooked Fences, about one time when I was feeling particularly sorry for myself because of my deafness and as a result, my attitude at school sucked. ...
Audism Art and Storytelling Sun, Jun 01 2008 hide this blog

For 1 Nite Only
At The Rim As promised ART-TV brings you the latest and greatest vids for the deaf community. Be prepared to be shocked, Be prepared to be amazed, (And keep a a handkerchief at the ready !!), as Paddy Ladd, sings ballads, and even raps for your edification..(Lyrics available from ATR Enterprises)
Audism Art and Storytelling Sun, Jun 01 2008 hide this blog

Helen Killer? Deaf-Blind Super-Agent?
Under The Hill I don't know if this is going to amuse or anger the deaf community, so here goes nothing: there's a new comic book limited series called Helen Killer, deaf-blind super professional assassin. Yes, you read it right. All about Helen Keller, the most famous deaf-blind woman in the past century, but in this completely fictionalized [...]
Media Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Sat, May 31 2008 hide this blog

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Star’s deaf photo exhibition
bill creswell As funnyoldlife said in the request, “it’s so ironic… about deafness but no subtitles.” Add to that he's a musician, it's about raising deaf awareness, the bbc's official policies supporting accessibility.. - It'd be laughable, if it weren't so sad. And the interview seems like a singer and a reporter that have no idea what [....
Media Audism Sat, May 31 2008 hide this blog

Happy 180th Birthday to you...
At The Rim Celebrating 180 years of deafnessThe Smith family have inherited deafness for eight generations. But many of the difficulties faced by their forebears no longer apply, thanks mainly to technology. They tell Rebecca Atkinson why they are proud of their unusual legacy...Sandra Smith.Our family has eight generations of deafness. The earliest deaf relative we have traced ...
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Sat, May 31 2008 hide this blog

Deaf Organisations, Deaf People & Information Sharing P2
All The Young Dudes Further to my previous post, Deaf Organisations, Deaf People & Information Sharing P1, there are too many conflicting issues for an organisation to provide services such as forums: professionalism, bi-partisanship, funding, and control! To be an advocacy agent, and at the same time, moderate a forum full of rabble rousers, is definitely not a good look. [...]
Audism Culture Sat, May 31 2008 hide this blog

NY times article
People of the Eye Short 1884 NY Times article about AG Bell's paper on the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race Click for article to open in a new window then click again to enlarge
Media Audism Fri, May 30 2008 hide this blog

What's in a work ethic?
Thumpaflash Reading my good buddy Surduspub's blog about his advisees who just graduated from college raised a troubling question in my mind....namely, where is the work ethic in today's youth?William Safire, speechwriter during the LBJ years, first coined this wonderful alliteration that is often wrongly attributed to LBJ himself: "the nattering nabobs of negativism have formed ...
Audism Legal Fri, May 30 2008 hide this blog

Lighting A Candle in the Deaf Darkness
Thumpaflash As of late, a big issue that has arisen, has been the outcry against Matt Hamill's choice of using a hearing actor to portray himself in a movie about his life story. The great hue and cry that has since ensued by those in the deaf culture who feel that this choice A) stole an acting job from another deaf actor (potentially), B) marks Matt and all ot...
Media Audism Culture Fri, May 30 2008 hide this blog

Hiding ASL Is Being Dishonest
Kalalau's Korner This blog examines the implications of current trends in American Sign Language (ASL). I will attempt to discuss what I learned from Hawai'i.While I lived on Maui in Hawai'i, I learned a lot about hiding the Native Hawai'ian language and culture. Hiding an issue regarding a teacher's proficiency in Hawai'ian, for example, is being dishonest. Hawai'i is the land of alo...
Language Audism Fri, May 30 2008 hide this blog

Bell’s “Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human...
People of the Eye Few people have seen the primary document (see below) in which AG Bell put forth his analysis of deaf to deaf marriages contributing to the possible development of a deaf variety of the human race and ways to stop this from happening. This 86 page paper shows Bell's interest in social Darwinism, eugenics, and [...]
Audism Education Fri, May 30 2008 hide this blog

Police Lax in communication!
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!Why are Police Departments in the Rochester, NY area and in the DC Metro so weak in training their officers in an effort to learn Sign Language? Just because Rochester, NY and Washington, DC Metro area have a great population for deaf people, it makes no sense for police departments for treating the deaf community like A.G. Bell suggests "treat the dea...
Media Audism Fri, May 30 2008 hide this blog

Why deaf children are not happy?
submit by: LChaim2007 The deaf children are not happy with oralism system at school... they are so happy with ASL that they satisfy with their life.
Audism Education Thu, May 29 2008 hide this blog