Shared Reading Project
Journey to Deaf Identity As I said it in a comment at one blog tonight, there IS a program where hearing parents can interact with their deaf children and it will also help literacy. So I thought, why not write about it here on my blog? So... this program is provided by Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University- It's called Shared Reading Project. How it works is [...]
Higher Education Language Education Culture Wed, Aug 01 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

DBC Booth?
Oh I See! Just a wild idea. DBC booth at next AGB convention at Milwaukee? Convention sponsored by Gallaudet?
Higher Education Language Culture Wed, Aug 01 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Leadership lessons and cultural richness mark students’...
Inside Gallaudet Six Gallaudet students learned about their communities and helped international students overcome their struggles at the 2007 National Asian Deaf Congress conference, held in San Francisco, Calif.
Higher Education Wed, Aug 01 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Stevens & Capital City Market
RidorLIVE When I was in Salt Lake City, Utah for Winter Deaflympics, I had an opportunity to meet many individuals whom took the time to explain about the politics surrounding the US Deaf Sports Federation (USDSF) and US Olympics Committee (USOC). I was concerned and dismayed about the fact that the US Deaf Athletes had to raise [...]
Higher Education Audism Culture Tue, Jul 31 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf Anthology #3: "Revolution Road"
Deaf Anthology Arriving home, John just completed mowing the lawn.Jeffrey: "Dad, I finally knocked down a pin, on the final game of the season, I am not "Gutter Boy" anymore, now am a "Pinhead," so let's celebrate tonight."John: "Here's my dollar, I donate to PAL."Jessica: "How can you be so......"John: "I supported them all my life, they catch me speeding, I paid the fines (feeling [...]
Higher Education Language Audism Education Tech Tue, Jul 31 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Recommended "Deaf Classics" NonFiction Books Related to the...
RLMDEAF Highly recommended "Deaf Classics" NonFiction Books applied to the AGBAB Protest Controvesty - "Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language" by Douglas C. Baynton Magnifique book on how the Milan Conference and the proponents of oral education of the deaf dramatically turn the American society into suppressing the use of sign [...]
Higher Education Language Audism Education Mon, Jul 30 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf Anthology #1: "The Big Dipper"
Deaf Anthology This blog is in full compliance with the federal Reading Reduction Act (U.S.C. 222, Section #1) recently enacted by Congress. Estimated time of reading this blog is 5 minutes, giving you enough time to play the rest of the afternoon.Welcome to Old Greenfield, Connecticut (don't bother looking it up on the map, it is a fictional town, actually WWII vets settled here, [...]
Higher Education Language Art and Storytelling Education Mon, Jul 30 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

My Struggles with Social Life (Part Two)
Deaf Bison Network I remember participate in science program provided for disabled and deaf people (yes, they consider "deaf" as "disability" in their persepctive) and I met a deaf friend Cody who know ASL. One time, for a special event from science program, we went to bowling and I saw difference between my family and Cody's family. My mom and I were quiet [...]
Higher Education Language Audism Education Tech Culture Fri, Jul 27 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

In my Opinion, PSE is not a such thing.
Here I am ... During my '84 NWC of Gallaudet, As a new Deaf signer, I was pretty baffled by one of my friends who grew up in a small Deaf school. She told me she signs PSE which I had never heard. (I learned that later on). The Total communication (speech training, PSE, English, etc) was used in her school. Thru my childhood years, I had seen that words - "American Sign Language" [...]
Higher Education Language Audism Education Fri, Jul 27 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Stuff For You To Ponder
RidorLIVE Writing On a Paper Pad = Terrorism? I was alerted by someone that the accused one, Ramona Rogers, is Deaf. Apparently, she wrote on a paper pad making threats at McDonalds that escalated into a high-speed chase. Maybe she was frustrated with the way the McDonalds folks treated her? Maybe her [...]
Higher Education Audism Culture Thu, Jul 26 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Why I didn't get a cochlear implant?
Ke5ter Not too long ago, I actually thought about getting a cochlear implant so I can start talking to hearing people and maybe on phone but I realize there are no guarantees that I would be able to carry intelligible speech and my past speech therapy didn't go so well either. Also, I didn't [...]
Higher Education Education Tech Culture Thu, Jul 26 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

my reason?
deaf258 I have been going through my saved drafts in my Blogger.com, erasing them all and consolidating them into one file. Then I would follow-up on each one. Some stuff are going to be about Deaf issues, Gallaudet, hearing aids, cochlear implants, etc.Let me start off with a draft post I wrote on October 29, 2006:"Long before I. King Jordan slipped up and named Jane K. [...]
Higher Education Language Art and Storytelling Culture Thu, Jul 26 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Transferring
The Deaf Edge It's been a while since I blogged. I haven't been feeling too well and the last couple of weeks have been stressful for me. I needed a transcript from my previous university so I could graduate with an A.A degree, then with that degree, transfer to another university for my B.S. in Public Policy. The deadline to get in that university was July 25, 2007. It [...]
Higher Education Wed, Jul 25 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Drawing near to the opening of the school year.
The Deaf Sherlock Howdy Fans!It's the last week of July. Did you know that professional and college football as well as some colleges are starting to open already for the 2007-2008 school year? Yep, it's starting already.It tells you how close to when Gallaudet University is about to open it's new academic year. It's going to be a new year with new things, new changes, and new [...]
Higher Education Wed, Jul 25 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

KidRobot's Karen von Pills
RidorLIVE How cute!   A fan of Karen von Pills has decided to participate in KidRobot's Mini-Munny Mobile Custom Car Show.  There are 112 contestants and only 7 will win such prizes. Scroll down for a Deaf contestant under the name of M. Holloway.  As you can see, Holloway has ensured that Karen von Pills' personality has attached [...]
Higher Education Language Mon, Jul 23 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Stone Deaf Play
via link submit A true jewel... A full length play done by the Deaf Studies Class at CSUN edited specifically for videoclips for all of us to view. Must seeing! [...]
Higher Education Language Audism Art and Storytelling Education Tech Culture Fri, Jul 20 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Newly-developed General Studies curriculum detailed in ASL...
Inside Gallaudet Freshmen arriving on campus in August will be the first to benefit from a new General Studies curriculum. To explain the changes, Gallaudet has launched a website with details in both ASL and English.
Higher Education Education Fri, Jul 20 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Gallaudet students empowered at NBDA’s Collegiate Black...
Inside Gallaudet Six young deaf leaders had a memorable week of networking and training during the 25th Anniversary National Black Deaf Advocates Conference in St. Louis, Mo. They look forward to using what they learned to benefit the deaf community and Gallaudet.
Higher Education Culture Thu, Jul 19 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Gabe Green, Ralph Sedano And Transformers Fiasco
RidorLIVE Gabriel “Gabe” Green was involved in a single-car accident in Jacksonville, Illinois which has left him critically injured. The words has spread like a wildfire across the Gallaudet community that he was in coma. But no, he is not. He is in Intensive Care Unit, heavily sedated because of heavy swelling and [...]
Media Higher Education Audism Tech Culture Tue, Jul 17 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

What the heck day?
The Deaf Sherlock Howdy Fans!I was doing a lot of thinking this AM as I woke up. A lot of it has to do with the subject of "Friendship" that was started by JByrne7480 (see his web page of my subscription list). So, I mulled over how to write my own impression of my friends.Let me share some facts that I know presently:From elementary school days to high school days, I had a lot [...]
Higher Education Education Tue, Jul 17 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The Best and the Worst of Probation
Ramblings of a Redhead I am so confused.Gallaudet University is placed on probation. When I first learned of it, my heart stopped. It's a bad thing. Gallaudet is heading for the bottom of sea.But then I went to DeafRead, some rejoiced about the university's probation. They said it's great news, that Gallaudet University is certainly going to keep its accreditation. Gallaudet is finding the [...]
Higher Education Mon, Jul 16 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

What is the sign for objective (goal)?
Here I am ... Share my story about my Gallaudet hearing professor who signs SEE/PSE. Today I occassionally watch Bob's vlogs -- Deja vu! No offense but I thought it is funny anyway.www.deafread.com
Higher Education Language Art and Storytelling Sun, Jul 15 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Gallaudet's PR Problem
Berke Outspoken This morning, as I ate my breakfast, I was greeted with another "Gallaudet must change" editorial/letter to the editor in the Washington Post (yesterday's editorial espoused that, while today's was a letter to the editor from one Josh Swiller, who is not even a Washingtonian). Gallaudet needs to confront this growing negative PR message, which is that Gallaudet is [...]
Higher Education Sun, Jul 15 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Gallaudet Leadership Institute offers more courses this...
Inside Gallaudet The increasingly popular GLI, which is designed for the personal and professional needs of deaf and hard of hearing individuals, has kicked off a successful summer season.
Higher Education Thu, Jul 12 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Bob's Vlog: Diversity agenda for change
Inside Gallaudet President Davila shares a seven-point diversity agenda to address diversity and minority achievement at Gallaudet and to improve services for young people of color. He is joined by Darian Burwell, Edgar Palmer, and Mark Amissah.
Higher Education Wed, Jul 11 2007 hide this blog flag post bookmark post