Blogs of Interest
Saturday May 31, 2008
Here are the blogs of interest for the week of May 25 to May 31. The weekend isn't over yet, so I will be updating later today or tomorrow to add more. In the meantime, you can see what made the list so far!
- Deaf Children in Foster Care - Rebecca's mother makes a good point about the risks for deaf children in foster care who have caseworkers who do not sign, or do not have interpreters to help them with the caseworkers.
- Ethiopian Sign Language Degree - the We Can Do blog published a press release about the establishment of a degree program in sign language by Addis Ababa University.
- Deaf Pilot (Subtitled Version) - Lane shows a video of a deaf pilot, who "takes" the viewer into a plane. (Signed version.)
- Public Access Videophone Privacy - Matt Daigle solves the problem creatively in a humorous cartoon.
- Don't Play on the Phone - Val posts a video of her sobbing son, learning a lesson after dialing 911. Captioned.
- Children Will Make Their Own Choices - Jodi posts about a child who made it clear what her communication preferences were, at an early age.
- VP Lawsuits - Tom Neville posts another humorous video. You will not be able to watch this one without laughing.
- Work Ethic - Eddie posts his own success story, and criticizes those who don't work fulltime and receive government support.
- Can You Sign Parsley? - Kim has a problem; she/he needs to know how to sign parsley for an ASL project and they are not allowed to fingerspell the word. Kim is also a fan of deaf literature; scroll down the blog left side column for the lists of books.
- Almost 200 Years of Deafness - the At the Rim blog (UK based) reprints a newspaper article about a family with 180 years of inherited deafness.
- Fox Video Player - the Disabled in the Digital Age blog reviewed multiple video players, and proclaimed the Fox video player a "winner."
- Being Deaf is OK - Surduspub writes an essay about the importance of telling a deaf child it is ok to be deaf.
- Hearing React to Open Captions - Another one by Surduspub that I just had to include. He/she writes about how when he/she went to see an open captioned movie, these hearing peopel ran out of the theater, leaving him laughing. I am not laughing! I actually find that reaction DISTURBING. One way to get more acceptance of open captioned films, and thereby increase their availability, is to encourage hearing people to watch them along with deaf people.
Comments
Thanks Jamie for recognizing my video as a list of videos to see for this past week. Watch more of mine in coming weeks.
My apology, I was refering my last comment to Deaf Pilot video. Thanks
Thanks Jamie, you’re awesome! Love reading your section.
Jamie:
Thanks for recognizing my blog on your list of blogs of interest for this week. Much appreciated!
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Jamie:
In defense of Surduspub, I have to say he DID try and get the hearing people to sit down and watch the movie with him. I think he was laughing at the absurdity of their reaction. Sometimes you just have to laugh. I too, wish more hearing people could be exposed, or would let themselves be exposed, to the deaf culture to facilitate understanding.
Jamie:
First, many thanks for listing my blog. I appreciate it!
Secondly, as Eddie said, I WAS laughing at the absurdity of the situation. I told the couple more than once that the only difference between an open-captioned movie and a non-open-captioned movie is that the former displays the words on the screen. That’s it.
I have gone to open-captioned films with hearing folks many times and each time, without exception, they LOVED it! They said seeing the words actually helps them follow the plot of the movie better. This is especially helpful if the movie in question is a mystery.
Perhaps it would have been helpful if I had mentioned this in my posting.