What’s In a Name?
Cochlear Implant Online "Watching this film certainly brought up some issues - but one quote jumped out at me. When Marlee’s character says (to the best of my ability to remember) “What does that make him, a hearing child who can’t hear, or a deaf child who can hear?” (as regarding getting a ...
Education Tech Mon, May 12 2008 · 13 minutes ago hide this blog

Misbelief and Naughty Girl at Deaf School
. . . .My Places for Fun, Laugh, Sad, and Bit When I was teenager and Misbelief plus naughty girl too. 1. I loved Revenge all Deaf Students. Yeah, I'm admit, I'm naughty girl!2. I was hang around w/my best friend and went hitch hiker then went to see my sweetheart's place. I got bad conquestion and end up grounded for 2 wks but extra another grounded 2 weeks more.. (mumbling) By the way, I never forget about my...
Art and Storytelling Education Mon, May 12 2008 · 4 hours ago hide this blog

My early years
gwallgofi My mum emailed me this recently and I thought I'll put it up. It was certainly interesting to read about my early life of which I have very very vague and unexplained memories - so this does answer some of the questions I've got with what I remember. Before you start, for those that did [...]
Education Tech Mon, May 12 2008 · 4 hours ago hide this blog

Why boycott Sorenson? And other answers
Open the Directory! I get asked this a lot. Why petition Sorenson? Why not other companies? Aren't they all in this? None of them are yet taking the bold step to fully commit to a solution bringing 10 digit phone numbers to videophones, so why did I choose Sorenson? I explain below. 1. It [...]
Audism Education Tech Mon, May 12 2008 · 8 hours ago hide this blog

IT Education for the Deaf
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers This is an excerpt of the lecture given by my deaf buddy Ervin Reyes during the 100th anniversary of Philippines School for the Deaf. Information Technology (IT) has opened up many opportunities for the deaf. The reasons are: IT improves productivity - It increases activity for the deaf. IT is an industry - Many jobs were opened through [...]
Education Tech Mon, May 12 2008 · 8 hours ago hide this blog

Papo This Papo That, Meet Deaf Papo!
Signs of the Times Jesus Antonio Velasquez de Navarrete*A Deaf child.Born in 1999 in Tucson, AZ.Both parents Mexican citizens.Neither of them speak or understand English.A doctor discovers Papo has hearing loss.A few months later:En meses mas andelante:A doctor says through a Spanish speaking interpreter;"He is a perfect candidate for an implant.""El es un candidato perfecto a un implan...
Art and Storytelling Education Tech Sat, May 10 2008 · hide this blog

Update on Chad and His Parents - You're Not Going to Like...
Jamie Berke (About.com) Remember Chad and his parents? Chad was the deaf youth whose parents battled ASDB contending his education was inadequate. His parents have now posted an update to the original...
Education Legal Fri, May 09 2008 · hide this blog

8 Year old Deaf Storyteller in Video
Fookem and Bug Written by Bug Should Deaf children be taught American Sign Language? Would you like to communicate with your child before they can talk? Do you want to increase your child's reading and language abilities? Learning to read and write English takes years, much patience and practice for young children. But they effortlessly use their hands [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Education Fri, May 09 2008 · hide this blog

BSL Recognition: Tender to Improve Access & Demand for BSL
Grumpy Old Deafies Following the meeting with the Prime Minister in February, the Department for Children Schools and Families are planning to announce the publication of a tender for a project to improve access to and demand for BSL. The relevant DCSF page by Lord Adonis can be found here, and the direct link to the document is here [Word] (the link on their website does not work). B...
Audism Education Legal Culture Fri, May 09 2008 · hide this blog

Smudge’s Deaf Awareness Week event
Just Smudge Mum took me to a primary school to explain to the students how I help her and what a difference I've made to her life. She spoke to 500 students throughout the day, delivering lots of workshops and answering everyone's questions with David's help. Some of the questions were really good, they showed the students [...]
Education Fri, May 09 2008 · hide this blog

Odyssey on Deaf Children with Autism
Jamie Berke (About.com) Tonight I came across the new Spring/Summer 2008 issue of Odyssey, published by the Clerc Center. The cover story is on autism in deaf children. There are six articles on...
Education Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

FCC requires your videophone to call any VRS
Open the Directory! For some time, the Sorenson VP-100 videophone would not allow you to make VRS calls through any other VRS company. FCC passed a mandate requiring interoperability a few years ago. You may already know this. However, I had an online conversation with a friend who is young, tech-savvy and knowledgeable about [...]
Education Tech Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Mainstreaming is a Place, Not a Success
DeafMom Although I'm late for "Blogging Against Disabilism" day, I wanted to touch on a subject that Terri Mauro blogged about recently: The Myth of the Magical Mainstream. Like Terri, I live in a district with a very strong inclusion program in the schools. For some kids, especially deaf and hard of hearing kids, inclusion can sometimes mean isolati...
Education Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Dear Medical Professionals...
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Placing your child in the hands of other people and having to trust these people with your child is the most difficult thing for a mother. When life requires that you ask for the help and support of persons outside of the family, you suddenly find yourself in an extremely vulnerable position. Finding professionals willing to offer all of their efforts and competencies...
Media Education Tech Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Adult Education fights for its life
I look so I can hear.... Calling all lipreading teachers and students! The Government's consultation on the future of non-skills based adult education ‘Informal Adult Learning - Shaping the Way Ahead' can be accessed at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills website. Please respond to this consultation - the deadline is 12 June. You have a chance to stop the...
Education Legal Wed, May 07 2008 · hide this blog

The Deaf's Language Initiative: A Declaration of ASL Rights...
Kalalau's Korner If we were to write preamble for our declaration of ASL rights and values, shall we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all languages are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable meanings embedded in all parameters of signs? Is ASL the distillation of language; the uproarious babble of our thoughts?When in the course of communication, why is ASL confront...
Media Higher Education Language Education Wed, May 07 2008 · hide this blog

Oralism vs Spoken English
Living The Questions I couldn't help but respond to Barb Digi's vlog after seeing her video with the little boy. In this video we watch as a hard-of-hearing or Deaf child tries to process a math problem. He seems to be concentrating hard. He uses his hands to make a plus sign. Then he makes a five with his right hand while saying the word "five" There was no sound on the video but it's ea...
Language Education Wed, May 07 2008 · hide this blog

Protect American Sign Language
Kalalau's Korner Moving from the island of Maui in Hawaii to the town of Dallas in Oregon was quite an adjustment for me. Despite of the adjustment, I have embraced Oregon and made continued efforts, both in my personal life and in the academia, to protect the language and culture of the Deaf, namely, American Sign Language (ASL).I began to feel that the world was being overtaken by h...
Higher Education Language Education Tech Culture Tue, May 06 2008 · hide this blog

May is "Better Speech and Hearing Month"
Jim's DEEP Thoughts I have been thinking of the comments regarding my post Disability Harassment Some of the comments were: When I was a kid, only the deaf kids at Mark Keppel school (ASL) bullied me while Field (oral) school deafies didn't. Students never bullied a hearing aid user at Maryland School. It was at Gallaudet when the user experienced the first ridicule and was asked, "Why h...
Higher Education Language Audism Education Culture Tue, May 06 2008 · hide this blog

Not Your Typical Mainstream Environment
Discovering Deaf Worlds After seven months of travel through six different countries, today was the first time we observed an environment where balanced numbers of future interpreters and deaf students share the same classroom. At Ratchasuda College in Bangkok, Thailand, the goal is hearing/deaf integration. The philosophy of this program has been rooted in bi-lingual, bi-cultural educatio...
Education Culture Tue, May 06 2008 · hide this blog

Requesting Help From Deafread.com and Anyone Reading
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Okay. I just found out about this Conference - NHS 2008 that is being held in Cernobbio (Lake Como, where George Clooney has a place:))from June 19-21st - I'm a little late. I am DYING to go and SPEAK! But, if I can't speak, I would settle for going. Does anyone know anyone who could get me in there??? All I have to do is hop on a train!This was their call for Abstrac...
Language Education Tech Mon, May 05 2008 · hide this blog

Deaf 911 expert talks about Next Generation 911
Open the Directory! Hello This is Tayler Mayer and I have with me an expert on 911 services. Working with various local governments and national organizations, he is knowledgable in 911 calling issues. Not only that, he is an advocate for providing effective 911 services to all deaf people. Allow me to introduce [...]
Education Tech Mon, May 05 2008 · hide this blog

Handicapped This Morning, But Not This Afternoon ~
The Ear of My Heart “Handicap: The extent to which a person's overall functioning is limited by their disability.” Blah. Another medical description. No one likes the word “handicap” and very few use that word anymore. But in this vlog, I will explain how a Deaf or Hearing person can feel situationally handicapped.
Education Culture Mon, May 05 2008 · hide this blog

Deaf Child's Bill of Rights Becomes Law
Waving With My Deaf Hands Deaf Child's Bill of Rights Becomes Law in ColoradoPosted May 1996Colorado Governor Romer signed the Deaf Child's Bill of Rights (DCBR) into law on Monday, March 18, 1996. The bill's chief provisions are: 1. educational options for all Deaf and hard of hearing children will continue to be available, 2. deaf children will be protected for their language development nee...
Language Education Legal Culture Sun, May 04 2008 · hide this blog

Deafness Matters
Grumpy Old Deafies I was just rooting through Teachers TV for any more programmes around deaf issues. The only ones there, appear to be old, but not programmes we've covered on here bfore. Here's Deafness Matters: The project was developed by Fran Simmons and Erika Stevenson for young people from the Oxfordshire Deaf Children's Society. You can buy this dvd from here. Whilst ...
Education Culture Sun, May 04 2008 · hide this blog