Susan Etkie’s Story
Hearing Aid 2008 I have been a hearing aid user since very young. My parents always made sure I had a working hearing aid as well as one meeting my needs. Growing up I did not realize the cost of a hearing aid. I have been married for 30 years. I have very good speech and many people often do not realize [...]
Tech Legal Tue, Jun 17 2008 hide this blog

Legislative Agenda #2 (Harder)
Dr. DonG.'s Deafhood Discourses I previously suggested that we work to get Deaf people (and as someone pointed out, this should be culturally Deaf people) on the team to help parents of newly identified Deaf children to learn ALL the options available to them and show them that Deaf people can be healthy, normal, educated citizens of society.  But, [...]
Language Tech Legal Mon, Jun 16 2008 hide this blog

Julie Chavez’s Story
Hearing Aid 2008 Hello!  My name is JulieAnn Chavez and I am married to my husband of 22 years, Jim Chavez.  Jim and I are hard of hearing so between the two of us; we have four hearing aids.  During our 22 years of marriage, we purchased one pair of hearing aids for each of us and that [...]
Tech Legal Thu, Jun 12 2008 hide this blog

IP Relay Scam
Crazy Deaf Joe Blog How the hell many stuipd people can claim they are deaf and abusing the relay system after FCC works so hard and provide this wonderful service for deaf people to be able to use it, it's so sad and these people who are pranks should be caughted! What a idiot!
Tech Legal Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

Deaf Priests Vs. Castle Hills, Texas
Banjo's World Yesterday, a group of deaf priests successfully won a fight with the city hall in acquiring the permit to run a seminary. The residents of Castle Hills protested the seminary out of fear that it may open up the door to group homes and fraternities.The seminary will be on an 8,100 square-foot-house. I think I can understand why some may be concerned about the idea of f...
Media Audism Legal Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

My view on DeafRead and the CI community (Rachel and...
You Are You & Your Circumstances (note the subtitles is not entirely in line with the vlog, my apologies). I just got back from a two month hiatus (recently married and got back from my honeymoon). Once arriving back, I eagerly checked DeafReead for some exciting news, some progress, perhaps something positive, but instead I was sidelined to reading the unfortunate and huge misunderstanding with Dea...
Media Language Audism Tech Legal Culture Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

Protecting your job against discrimination.
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!Discrimination. It's an ugly word used every day among the hearing and the deaf on both sides of the job market. It's a horrible word. It's a word used more often than a 4 letter swear word could ever hope to break apart a person's career.Discrimination breaks a lot of people. No matter what sexual orientation, gender, color, creed, nationality, and rel...
Audism Legal Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

Inside Cochlear Implant Online: Who Are They
The Deaf Edge On June 3, 2008 the DeafRead team announced that they were inactivating Rachel Chaikof's blog, Cochlear Implant Online [CIO], from the DeafRead aggregator. Immediately since her debut on DeafRead on January 13, 2008, Rachel and her blog has been embroiled in controversy. Some DeafRead viewers felt her blog was merely a thinly veiled advertisement for [...]
Media Tech Legal Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

Inside Cochlear Implant Online: Disclosure?
The Deaf Edge (Continued from Part One) Where Is the Full Disclosure? So, how can the information presented in the previous post be central to this controversy? I'll tell you what it is: It is reasonable to expect that Melissa and Rachel understand about full disclosure – more so than the average person does. But until CIO's boot from DeafRead, [...]
Media Tech Legal Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

Inside Cochlear Implant Online: Ethics?
The Deaf Edge (Continued From Part Two) The Link Between Cochlear Implant Online and C.A.N. It is not precisely clear what skills C.A.N. is referring to in their FAQ, but when one looks at the Benefits section, the training aspects are outlined. Advocates share their stories, provide resources and so on. This appears to directly fit in what CIO [...]
Media Tech Legal Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

Handling Discrimination on the Job
Jamie Berke (About.com) As regular readers of this blog know, I frequently receive emails from deaf and hard of hearing people sharing their tales of discrimination because of their hearing loss, on the...
Legal Wed, Jun 11 2008 hide this blog

Take Action Now for More Captioners and Realtime Writers
NAD Advocacy The U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate are currently considering the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 (H.R. 4137, S. 1642), better known as the Higher Education Reauthorization Act. This bill includes language to create a competitive grant program to train realtime writers to provide captioned information and communication access millions of...
Legal Tue, Jun 10 2008 hide this blog

My Response to Patti (People of the Eye)
Living The Questions Of all the blogging action about how DeafRead removed Cochlear Implant On-line from its aggregator, the only place constructive discussion seems to be building bridges is on Patti's blog, "People of the Eye" I felt the need to respond openly in my own blog.Sorry I'm so late in responding, Patti.Kim – . . .I want to ask you – when u challenge DR not to exclude Rachel ...
Audism Tech Legal Tue, Jun 10 2008 hide this blog

Hearing Aid Coverage–What Other States Are Doing
Hearing Aid 2008 Jennifer Egetimeier, the mom behind the Illinois “Have You Heard?” campaign to pass a previous bill for hearing aid coverage has some excellent information to share about what is happening in other states to provide hearing aid coverage: The states that mandate insurance coverage for hearing aids are: 1. Connecticut 2. Kentucky 3. Louisiana 4. Maryland 5. ...
Tech Legal Tue, Jun 10 2008 hide this blog

The other George on Clause 14
At The Rim Nope it hasn't quite gone away and dissapeared into British folklore, albeit after the initial blogs vented deaf spleens,, and t-shirt runs ran out, and the March took place, most deaf Brits switched the TV back on it seems. We didn't see any photos, vids or deaf responses after from Britain of any note. In years to come, someone will say "I wonder what happened abo...
Legal Culture Mon, Jun 09 2008 hide this blog

Telephone Number System for VRS
Ed's Telecom Alert All... Wow - there is an intense lobbying by VRS providers and Number Service companies to the FCC that their "proposals" are best. NeuStar #1 Interesting point by NeuStar that "path" of the video phone distributed video relay service will go thru even if another VRS provider is chosen as a default is seen as a virtue; [...]
Tech Legal Sun, Jun 08 2008 hide this blog

Lauren Ridloff - A Step Forward for Safety
Channel i Vlogs For years now, deaf and hard of hearing people have been limited when calling 911 in an emergency. Lauren uncovers the hard facts on emergency access.
Tech Legal Fri, Jun 06 2008 hide this blog

SnapVRS / Ojo Also Offers 9-1-1 Calling
Proud Geek Since May 19, SnapVRS has been making it possible for callers to be connected to 9-1-1 just by dialing “911″ on their Ojo videophones.  Sorenson began doing that last year, and Viable just yesterday.  Good move, SnapVRS, even if it's being mandated by FCC! Callers would have to provide the address where emergency services are needed.  [...]
Tech Legal Tue, Jun 03 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

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

Law Enforcement and the Deaf - A Primer
Thumpaflash Let me preface this post by acknowledging I am the son of a cop. I am trying not to let my obvious bias show here, but I am also a deaf individual. This is simply a guide, based on common sense and a lifetime's experience dealing with law enforcement from both perspectives.I have been perusing through several blogs off and on today, including some ol...
Media Legal Sun, Jun 01 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

Being Sued, Difficulty Getting CART Services
Jamie Berke (About.com) Kbfromlb has posted on the forum about his/her difficulty in obtaining CART services to assist in a court case. At the same time, kbfromlb was warned by a mediator that...
Legal Thu, May 29 2008 hide this blog

"IS DMH WALKING US AROUND THE BLOCK AGAIN?" ~ OR ~ "SHALL...
Show Me Deaf Community a transcript of the vlog message:Hello! I am back home with a heavy heart and a lot of questions as well as new information running in my head. I sat at my computer while pondering for truth in this matter. As usual, the truth is in the eye of the beholder. This is how and why I see what happens daily in our deaf lives.As you can recall my previous posting about Ba...
Media Legal Thu, May 29 2008 hide this blog