GOODBYE DEAFREAD:Rules are Rules-Bookmark Me
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear It is with great pride and nostalgia that I must bid a fond farewell to Deafread.com. I have recently been invited to collaborate with Cochlear, Italy to create a blog written in Italian (God help me) focusing on parent support regarding issues in Deafness. While I have been granted freedom in choosing topics, arguments and methodologies for creating this blog, there ...
Language Culture Education Tech Wed, Nov 19 2008 · 14 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Determination and Perseverance =Full Scholarship
The CI Circle News I am an active member of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Circle, however for those reading who are unfamiliar with our story, here is a brief background explanation: John was late diagnosed (no newborn screening then) and didn't receive his hearing aids until almost 3.5 years. He had the receptive and expressive language of a 12 month old at his 4th birthday. Joh...
Higher Education Language Education Tech Wed, Nov 19 2008 · 15 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

More Monday Drama at CWU
Glenn's Story Book Glenn wrote:Another thing that happened on Monday was that I received a response to a email that I had sent one of the senior administrators last week. Apparently, there's been a committe formed called Resource Central. I don't know who's on it, but one of the members is close to the president's office. I was told that someone would be contacting me "soon" last wee...
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Deaf Anthology 122: "Outsourcing"
Deaf Anthology A major relay service provider have decided last night at its Board meeting to outsource all interpreters jobs to overseas in India, effective in January. According to informed sources on the conditions of not being identified, will make an announcement of their intentions sometimes next week, after first having an in-service discussion with its field employees. All r...
Media Higher Education Language Art and Storytelling Culture Tech Wed, Nov 19 2008 · 18 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

OCR "Formally" Investigates
Glenn's Story Book Glenn wrote:I emailed the Office for Civil Rights investigator on Monday because I was unsure what the implications of the letter that I received last week were. Specifically, I wanted to know if the letter meant they would now "formally" investigate Central Washington University's DSS office. I received an "out of the office" automatic reply shortly after sending th...
Legal Higher Education Audism Tech Wed, Nov 19 2008 · 20 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Milk - Captioned Trailer
bill creswell His life changed history. His courage changed lives. In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America. His victory was not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions across the political spectrum. From senior citizens [...]
Media Language Art and Storytelling Tech Tue, Nov 18 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

US hearing aid sales drop in third quarter of 2008
deafness and hearing aids Hearing Industries Association has released its quarterly statistical report of U.S. hearing instrument sales for the third quarter of 2008. Based on this survey of 21 member companies, the commercial (non-Veteran's Administration) market was down 16,345 units from the previous quarter, and down 3% when compared to the same period. VA dispensing activity continu...
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Monty Python Parrot Sketch - Captioned By Request
bill creswell more about "Monty Python Parrot Sketch - Captioned", posted with vodpod Posted in Captioned Video, Captions By Request Tagged: Captioned TV Clips, Monty Python, Parrot Sketch
Media Art and Storytelling Tech Tue, Nov 18 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Can vitamins and minerals prevent hearing loss?
deafness and hearing aids About 10 million people in the United States alone—from troops returning from war to students with music blasting through headphones—are suffering from impairing noise-induced hearing loss. The rising trend is something researchers and physicians at the University of Michigan Kresge Hearing Research Institute, Ann Arbor, Mich, are hoping to reverse, with a cocktail of...
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Thanks to all who contributed!
Please face me, I read lips We collected about 10% of my original goal, which was more than I expected.  I still have hearing aids rolling in for donation, and there have been a few private donations of undisclosed amounts on behalf of this blog.    The purpose of Blog Action Day  was to increase awareness of the poverty around us.  Each blogger chose [...]
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Karina Chupina - A Change Wanted In Japan - Part 1
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Curious about Japan, the second most technologically advanced country in the world after...
Tech Culture Mon, Nov 17 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Chris Kaftan - A Keen Idea
i711.com : Deaf News This Week It took a trip to a museum to convince Catharine McNally that something needed to...
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Dangerous Decibels in Theaters
Jamie Berke (About.com) HHissues has posted an interesting article in the Hearing Research topic folder on the forum, "Dangerous Decibels? Are Movies Too Loud?" This is an article about how the loudness of...
Tech Mon, Nov 17 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Dear Barak Obama, Please Caption Your Videos
DeafMom Over on Twitter, I received a tweet from @lil-gruntlings alerting me to a video by Barak Obama that was not captioned. Did I want to help her get this changed, she wanted to know: I asked her to tell me more about it, as I wasn't familiar with the change.gov website and I was on the road. --- want to get www.change.gov to captio...
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Positive Spins
Five String Guitar If one reads the national dailies that grace our doorsteps in the morning, one would assume we are in the depths of a recession, if not indeed a depression. Yet in this country, more cars were sold last month than in the October of one year earlier, when we were humming along.I went out yesterday to pick up some bobbles and what not, to spread some joy around the neig...
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Classroom acoustics for deaf children
Campaigning for deaf children One of the key issues for NDCS as part of our campaign to close the gap in educational achievement between deaf children and their hearing peers is the extent to which acoustics in the classroom acts as a barrier to learning. It's quite simple really. If most deaf children are now taught in mainstream schools, [...]
Language Education Tech Mon, Nov 17 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

SVRS at it again?????
valhallian.com I have been quite busy with travels and work lately which is why I had not written a new post in quite sometime.  However, I came across some news that made me set time aside to write a short post about this. I felt the need to do this to support the deaf people of [...]
Audism Tech Legal Mon, Nov 17 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Added Dotsub to the Captioned Video Search
bill creswell There are so many options now for captions, that there are so many duplications of effort. That was the reason I started working on the Captioned Video Search ( [link] I wasn't even checking DotSub, which has many also - So I've added Dotsub results to the search. (to catch up on what Captioned Video Search is about, try [...]
Tech Mon, Nov 17 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

In the Queue of my life, no 44 - (Part 4 of 7)
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Rikshospitalets goals for CI operations in 2008 will not be met. As of September 1st, Rikshospitalet has performed 25 CI operations on adults. - We will not be able to achieve the goal of 100 operations for 2008, Rikshospitalet says in a statement. The former health-minister Sylvia Brustad (labour party), ordered Health-South-East (Helse Sør-Øst) to perform 100 [......
Tech Culture Mon, Nov 17 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

5: What’s Up With HOVRS’ MVP?
The Countdown To The Resurrection After GoAmerica swallowed HOVRS and Verizon TRS, they did not stop as they went on their way to purchase two major interpreting agencies in Washington, DC area in an attempt to control the interpreters from working for other VRS companies. Yes, HOVRS bought Sign Language Associates (SLA) and Visual Language Interpreting (VLI).  To me, it is [...]
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Another Location for Captioned Obama Videos
bill creswell Someone referred to my captioned video collection, and I discovered someone with a great job title. occupation: Transcriber industry: Educational Media company: Self-employed job description: Transcription and editing of audio/video media and course content for the Deaf community, and to provide access for non-native speakers of English to English content. She works m...
Media Legal Tech Sun, Nov 16 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

ASL Expo, Funny Stuff
RSGeo-007 Earlier Saturday, I went with Jamie out to the ASL Expo at the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, MD. We arrived just before noon due to a previous engagement.I thought it was interesting that it was in arena near a horse stable. Usually, most expos like this are crowded, but this one wasn't as crowded. It looked more like a demo and social sort of event, more social...
Media Higher Education Language Art and Storytelling Culture Tech Sun, Nov 16 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

My Night of Accessible Theatre
SpeakUpLibrarian Me and Marsha with the theatre entrance seen in the backgroundLast weekend was my big night out in Chicago with friends I had made through my local hearing loss support group. Julie, Kitty, and I met that afternoon at our group leader Kim's home, and the three of us squeezed into the backseat for a wild drive downtown. Kim's husband is an experienced city driver and c...
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Obama Campaign Reaches Out To Deaf Community!
-Selina^Wing- But Eisenhour understands what most people don't - that sometimes there are people on the other end of that line.The numbers - which give a pattern of electronic beeps and clicks - typically are discarded as faxes or computer modems. However, some connect to the homes and lives of people in the deaf community who communicate with a special text telephone called TTY.“T...
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Samsung Propel Ad - Make Yourself Heard
bill creswell Samsung Propel ad with Ozzy making himself understood by texting. more about "Samsung Propel Ad - Make Yourself Heard", posted with vodpod Posted in Captioned Video Tagged: Captioned Internet Video, Captioned TV Ad, Ozzy Osbourne, Samsung
Media Tech Sat, Nov 15 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post