101 Uses For Your Old TTY
Deaf Kitchen Needless to say, our TTYs are gathering dust as we switch to videophones, v-mails, e-mails, pagers, smartphones, IMs, etc.! What to do with this 20th century replica that takes up space on our kitchen counters and workspaces?! Here's a list of ideas!101--9-1-1 Access: Video and Internet-based 9-1-1 access is coming. Until this is perfected, however, better not thr...
Tech Mon, Jun 23 2008 hide this blog

Implant infection answer a winner
The ASL-Cochlear Implant Community The following article was published in The Australian, on June 21st. The puzzle of why people with cochlear implants are more susceptible to meningitis has been discovered by a Victorian researcher. Bianca Nogrady reports | June 21, 2008 THE brain is an incredibly fragile organ. Evolution certainly thinks so -- it has surrounded this mass of nerves and cells with a ...
Tech Mon, Jun 23 2008 hide this blog

Next!
SURROUND SOUND OK, so after staying up until 3 AM, I woke up around 6 AM Thursday morning when I sensed that Laurie was awake. She flashed a cheerful grin at my draggy self and plopped a steaming cup of coffee down by the bed. Seriously, what is not to love about this girl?? We took our time getting ready...Abbie was appointed designated hairdresser, and, poor dear, my hair and I ga...
Tech Legal Mon, Jun 23 2008 hide this blog

Part 2 of Update (5 days postop)
icedpinkchampagne So, the days following the surgery, my head didn't hurt THAT much, but that was mainly because I was so faithfully being administered medicine by Ian. But nights and early mornings were worse, I'd say. It was hard to find an easy position to sleep in and it often would flare up at night for some reason. Then when I'd wake up it was like my head had a reaction to the c...
Art and Storytelling Tech Mon, Jun 23 2008 hide this blog

Holy Crap.. Update
icedpinkchampagne Sorry I haven't updated!! I've basically been letting myself use the excuse that I have to wait to find my camera cord to upload my pictures first!! :P Well, I just moved to my summer housing. Yes, I am on my own since Saturday (5 full days after surgery) I spent Monday and part of Tuesday at the hospital, Tuesday through Wednesday with Ian at my mom's house, Thursday...
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Is an Implant a Legitimate Reason Not to Deport?
Jamie Berke (About.com) The Guardian newspaper from the U.K. has a report on a deaf girl of African heritage whose family faces deportation because their application to stay was denied. The family is...
Media Tech Legal Culture Sun, Jun 22 2008 hide this blog

Connections Within the Family
We Cue! To come from a family where each of my immediate family members learned how to cue is something I consider a blessing. I even put my life on the line by trying to teach the family cat how to expressively cue to me. I would take her paw and try to move it around her [...]
Tech Culture Sun, Jun 22 2008 hide this blog

HOVRS - A Technical problem!!!
Northcutt's Vlog Good Morning! On May 29, 2008 there seem to be a problem with HOVRS's new platform system. (Radvision - if I correctly got it right) What seem to be triggering the problem?? To top it off, I have been getting email from my hearing loyalist (family members, business patrons, doctors, etc.) in which they tried to reach me on several occasions through special number I ...
Language Tech Sun, Jun 22 2008 hide this blog

HLAA Convention Recap #1
CHRONICLES OF A BIONIC WOMAN The hotel shuttle bus whisked me away from the landing field of hell to the magnificent Grand Sierra Hotel in Reno, Nevada. On the way to the hotel, I was trying to text to Jennifer, Laurie, Mike and Phyliss all the while trying to hold a verbal conversation. It is a miracle in itself in how I remained intelligible through my texting. At first glance of the hotel, ...
Language Art and Storytelling Tech Culture Sun, Jun 22 2008 hide this blog

How do deaf enjoy music?
Living The Questions I was inspired by Shel's recent comment about music in my last post. Several months ago I mentioned how Evelyn Glennie, a deaf percussionist had motivated me to learn the djembe. Here is her intriguing explanation of how she perceives music. [link] She considers hearing just another type of touch.Most hearing people don't understand that. Being deaf, I totally get...
Tech Sat, Jun 21 2008 hide this blog

Highs and Lows
The Ambling Rambler I heard it, I heard it. Finally! It's been over a year since I heard my washing machine beep when it finished all the cycles and was ready to be hung out. For me this has been a real nuisance as I would put a load of washing on, then completely forget that I had. Then my washing would go out far too late in the day to be hung out and get dry, or I would find the l...
Tech Sat, Jun 21 2008 hide this blog

Sue the Videophone Companies!
Fookem and Bug By Bug  Another humor video of tough Deaf Lawyer Tom Neville with wild hand gestures! If you got injuried because of videophone, contact him! He will help you suiing the videophone companies and get a lot of money! Tom is pretty much the funniest man who ever lived. Enjoy his video.   If you haven't seen his other funny video ” Sidekick Lawsuits”, cl...
Language Art and Storytelling Tech Legal Sat, Jun 21 2008 hide this blog

from the bookshelf: web standards and accessibility
Inaudible Nonsense Finally finished reading Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition). The book gets lots of attention as does Zeldman. And for good reason, he's one of the grandfathers of web standards and general man about the web. He's also a great writer who can tackle a topic like CSS, XHTML and web standards with humor [...]
Tech Sat, Jun 21 2008 hide this blog

RE: The Time is NOW!!!!!
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear I just got home and found all of your comments. I have a little story to tell about WHY I posted this video *smile* As you either know or don't know, I just gave a speech at the NHS 2008 Conference in Cernobbio (Lake Como) Italy. I have about five different posts to post about this conference because UNBELIEVABLE things happened, I mean out of control amazing things h...
Language Tech Sat, Jun 21 2008 hide this blog

Knockout !
At The Rim Shannon Fassler with her mum Wendy, third from right, Keving Sanders, right and world boxing champion David Haye, third from left. Below right: Shannon and her mum.Boxing Fans raise money for Shannon.OVERWHELMED by the plight of a deafblind schoolgirl, the city's boxing fans have raised thousands of pounds to purchase a piece of equipment that will transform the 11-ye...
Education Tech Sat, Jun 21 2008 hide this blog

Trailer for Teri Brown's New Book, Read My Lips
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature I just finished reading Teri Brown's new novel, Read My Lips. Look for an upcoming review of the book and interview with the author. In the meantime, I found this trailer for the book on YouTube. I think it does a nice job adding visuals to the pictures that I have already created in my head. Enjoy!
Media Language Art and Storytelling Education Tech Sat, Jun 21 2008 hide this blog

Stepping Up To The Plate
Thumpaflash Below is an article I published on Mark Drolsbaugh's website, Deaf Culture Online. It describes the watershed event in my life when I learned to first begin finding my deaf identity and understanding it. Until this point, I had been merrily rolling along in life oblivious to deaf culture and fixed on "fitting in" to the hearing world's perceptio...
Higher Education Audism Education Tech Sat, Jun 21 2008 hide this blog

Shel asked, What was it like?
Living The Questions Me-- when I could hear well. (1961)Shel wrote a nice comment in my post On the Fence, and asked about my childhood. I guess he wanted to gain a better understanding of what it feels like to be late-deafened.You're right: I can never fully understand where you are coming from. You can also say you can never understand where I am coming from as I've chosen to own ASL as...
Tech Culture Sat, Jun 21 2008 hide this blog

Dazed and confused
Sudden Silence I’m sitting here trying to think of a short, succinct sentence to describe Freshman Orientation Day at the public university my son will be attending this fall.  Words fail me. I’ll go the long, rambling, wordy route instead.  First off…WHY?  Why do they schedule such an important day to start so dreadfully early?!  Sure, they offer [...]
Higher Education Language Tech Fri, Jun 20 2008 hide this blog

DeafRead, Deaf Village, Aggregators, Part IV: Communication...
All The Young Dudes That vexed question about access continues to vex its adherents. Dyniece does a very good job of explaining what an aggregator is and their function in her post Of feed aggregators, hypocrisy, and choices. She is calm, she is logical, and she makes sense. And yes, by making your content accessible, you reach a much [...]
Language Audism Tech Culture Fri, Jun 20 2008 hide this blog

Netflix Flicks Deaf Customers
Bionic Ear Yet another online service doesn't provide captions or subtitles for videos. So what else is new? It would be a huge job for anyone to try to fight all the sites that don't caption their videos, but the i711 article...
Media Tech Fri, Jun 20 2008 hide this blog

Worth to Get CI?
Pure Deaf 5 Min 19 Sec
Tech Fri, Jun 20 2008 hide this blog

Breaking News!
Sudden Silence I'm in the middle of a long post about going to Eric's college for freshman orientation, but I had to pop in to say...my cochlear implants just got approved!!!! Paige went out to get the mail and the letter was there.  It's kind of hard to understand (and that's saying a lot because deciphering insurance used [...]
Tech Fri, Jun 20 2008 hide this blog

Shopping for a new phone
Say What? Hello all, I'm in the market for a new phone. I need a smartphone like the Blackberry, iPhone, or SideKick. What I'm hoping for is one that's on Verizon's wireless network because it has better coverage out in the farm country.  AT&T and T-Mobile provide me with a shaky connection out in the country. I'm tempted by [...]
Tech Fri, Jun 20 2008 hide this blog

A Comedy To Those Who Think.
Life In a Cone of Silence The new Get Smart Again movie hits theatres today.If my "rally cap" was to give me a touch more "hearing juice", I would make be my privilege and honour to make it the first movie of my comeback.Since I fell a few steps backwards in my comprehension level, I will wait until my mapping on Monday to see if I can make the giant leap into the world of moving pictures on ...
Media Tech Fri, Jun 20 2008 hide this blog