On the Ground in a Hearing World - Getting What You Need
SayWhatClub Weblog For starters, this isn't just a post about getting accommodations for hearing loss; interpreters, CART, captioned TV/movies/phones, etc. Nor is it about picking your way through the mindless bureaucracy of getting assistance for the above (and hearing aids, etc). This post is mainly about strategies for coping with hearing loss in real time, with real [...]
Legal Culture Tech Sat, Sep 06 2008 · 3 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Moving on and apologies
TigerDeafie My many apologies for not keeping up to date with this blog So I am just writing a brief summary here for now. But...a lot has been happening, I've not been away on holiday. Firstly, I am moving to University of Bristol from the beginning of October.  To my delight I was awarded an early careers [...]
Higher Education Culture Sat, Sep 06 2008 · 7 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Interview with Myron Uhlberg regarding his forthcoming...
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature Last May, I flew to Atlanta, GA for one day to The International Reading Association (IRA) Convention for Myron Uhlberg’s presentation “DAD, JACKIE, AND ME: Deaf, Black, and Hearing: What's the Connection? The Stories Behind the Story”. You can read my May 11 post about the experience. Since that meeting, I requested an interview with Myron to discuss his previous pub...
Media Language Art and Storytelling Culture Sat, Sep 06 2008 · 8 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Debating Deafness in Wales
At The Rim Debating Deafness and Embryo Selection: Are We Undermining Reproductive Confidence in the Deaf Community? Sarah Norcross:It's a great pleasure for me to introduce our chair this evening, Professor Graham Turner. He is Chair of Interpreting and Translation Studies at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. For over 20 years he's conducted research in the field of Deaf...
Legal Higher Education Culture Sat, Sep 06 2008 · 11 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Jaipur Deaf Friendship Club
Discovering Deaf Worlds One of many common themes we have seen throughout our travels in eight different countries this past year is the importance of a deaf club environment. When your day to day life is surrounded by communication barriers and people who do not understand you, a socializing outlet is a natural remedy to keep you going. After traveling throughout Northern India for the la...
Language Culture Sat, Sep 06 2008 · 12 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Hearing - Hijack - Deaf!
Oh I See! An observation of how people from various societies often "hijack" from the Deaf for their own promotion and benefits. General issues on Baby Signs & Cochlear Implant, ADA, Learning Disabled, and Telecommunications. What's next?
Legal Language Culture Tech Fri, Sep 05 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...
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Hedy and Ronald Stern: Accessibility at Invesco
The Deaf Perspective Ronald and Hedy Stern both answer Gallaudet University professor Mairin Veith's question about accessibility at INVESCO Stadium on the eve of Barack Obama's nomination speech and about seeing their daughter Shoshannah Stern perform on the stage. TRANSCRIPT:Ronald Stern: Hello, here's Hedy Udkovich Stern. I'm Ronald Stern and we're at the Invesco Stadium for DNC. Mairi...
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Leah Katz-Hernandez: I Have a Dream II
The Deaf Perspective TRANSCRIPTLeah Katz-Hernandez: Hi, I'm here at Invesco field in the Stadium to watch Barack Obama to give his acceptance speech for the Democratic Presidential nomination. It's truly a historical day... Even more significant that today falls on the anniversary of the years since Martin Luther King Jr gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. One thing that's important for you...
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Web 2.0 and Why D/deaf Blogging Matters
SpeakUpLibrarian Because I work at a university library, part of my job involves teaching workshops. Last winter I began teaching online for the first time. My coworker Diane and I created a course designed to train our library's staff on web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and more. A local public library director also took the course. He liked it so much he wan...
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Paralympic in China featuring deaf dancers
The deaf boy in the world I was checking Yahoo! News this morning which I usually do every morning with a cup of coffee from Starbuck. I found this clip about Paralympic in China. I have to say that I was very fascinated with Chinese Sign Language also their performance.Enjoy!
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Deaf Community: For the Arguments’ Sake
Periscopic Eyes to the World's Stage. Deaf Community: For the Arguments’ SakeI have been reading blogs and watching vlogs since summer to see what happening with Deaf community. All I can say is… ‘wow.’ Lots of hot issues and heated arguments on ‘Deafhood,’ ‘NAD,’ ‘Deaf acting for Mark Hamill,’ and so on. A lot of the time I just pass by it and felt it worthless to keep up but it keep coming back to me wi...
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Signs of the Times: How Technology Changes Deaf History
NTID News A first-of-its-kind conference next month at NTID will discuss how changing technology is affecting storytelling in American Sign Language in the Deaf community. Registration for the Oct. 3 and 4 event is now open and is free.
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It's Always My Favorite Fall
Waving With My Deaf Hands Fall brings the moving music in your eyes. Leaves change color in the air. Leaves dance in autumn. The river shines mistily. All sparkled into your eyes. ("My favorite Fall" created by Deb Ann)
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Stuff Deaf People Like #6: Signing “LOL”
Stuff Deaf People Like As the urban dictionary says, LOL is now “overused to the point where nobody laughs out loud when they say it.”  This is with general Internet folks typing “LOL” and “ROFLMAO” to each other via comments, IM, and other internetty places. But no, deaf people carry it one step further.  They actually sign “LOL” to each [......
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Weaving Common Threads and Diversity Among Deaf and Hard of...
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature There is still time to register for the October Conference: Weaving Common Threads and Diversity Among Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adolescents in St. Louis, MO. I am extremely excited about this conference because it explicitly addresses the needs of adolescents and I'm guessing that it is the only conference of its kind! So, I highly encourage you to go or at least chec...
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Deaf Timelines (2)
At The Rim
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Camfrog and the Deaf World
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers Watch this YouTube video made by a poster named Girldeaf. She painstakingly collected all the screenshots of Camfrog chatters and grouped them according to countries. You might find your face in one of those.
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Why do we say we are not disabled?
Musings on communication How is it that we do not regard ourselves as disabled? Is it because of the way we were raised, to be not different from other people? Is it because our difference is invisible and outwardly we look and move about like everyone else? What is the origin of this "not disabled" feeling? This attitude is so pervasive that we object to any surgery or expensive ...
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Here it is! VLOG of DCARA’S & Bay Area’s FUN bus!
California Association of the Deaf Click here for DCARA's VLOG
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Which Deaf Consider Themselves Disabled?
Jamie Berke (About.com) Are deaf people with limited English more likely to think of themselves as disabled, compared to deaf people with "good" English? Below is an example of an e-mail received from...
Audism Education Culture Thu, Sep 04 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

MoveOn.org Not Captioning Videos
Don's Blog Noticed that MoveOn.org wasn’t captioning the videos they were sending out in their mass emails. So I sent them an email just a few minutes ago: I'm a blogger at DonCullen.net. I am deaf, am a member of the California Association of the Deaf, National Association of the Deaf, and the World Federation of the Deaf. [...]
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Foreign coffee shops in England ~ can you understand me?
I look so I can hear.... Last week I was in Wimbledon and I got bored waiting for my friend to turn up, so I popped into a shop nearby for coffee. It was a little place called Tchibo. A staff member approached me and told me that dogs weren't allowed in the shop. I explained he's a Hearing Dog which [...]
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NTID Laptop Thief Using Info?
RSGeo-007 Earlier today I got back from visiting the local Capital One bank. Yesterday, I had received an account opening statement from them which had the correct address, but wrong addressee. I took a look inside to find that it was an account that had been opened in someone else's name and SSN but the account opener used my address. It was dated a day or two after the theft....
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ASL puppets visit Wisconsin Deaf Camp
Jack's eyes Produced by Jack Barr and Edited by Darrell Roby [link]
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