Why never to say “Oh, it doesn’t matter” to a deaf person
Campaigning for deaf children A posting by Tiger Mother on the National Deaf Children's Society website reminded me of a key cardinal rule with deaf children (and adults). If they miss something and ask you to repeat, never EVER say: “Oh, it doesn't matter.” As an adult, I often just say “... but it was important enough to say [...]
Fri, Aug 13 2010
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What are you watching on TV?
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand That's $88 million dollars folks. And they want the government to provide the captioning machine with taxpayers money!! Greed is so unattractive.
Sun, Jul 11 2010
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Our Noisy Oceans
Hearing Sparks We all know the difficulty of making ourselves heard in loud areas like restaurants, airports, malls and at sporting events, but did you know that even the oceans are getting louder?This article from 80beats, a blog on Discovery Magazine's website, details a small study done on 14 whales, which measured the background noise in the ocean and then compared how whales ra...
Fri, Jul 09 2010 · Moved from DeafRead Extra
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Beans or Beano
Echo Gas is such a big problem for people that eat too much fiber much too quickly and I've been experiencing that side effect lately. I needed to increase my intake of fiber and it has become both a good and a bad decision for me. Mostly bad because poor hubby! He deals with my gas [...]
Thu, Jul 08 2010 · Moved from DeafRead Extra
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Writing a Book or Three
Echo I've been in constant struggle with writing daily lately because of my schedule constantly changing but that's going to happen again soon. I've told myself that as long as I keep my head high and figure out ways to keep my schedule going even when I am travelling, I should be okay. this is true especially [...]
Thu, Jul 08 2010 · Moved from DeafRead Extra
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Hearing tests. Have you ever randomly clicked? But only...
Liz's Blog As the title of this post says. Has it happened to you? You click sounds you hear in your hearing test, but only to be told you were randomly clicking. So what you thought you heard, you didn't. That's what happened to me, as my left ear was being tested. Already had my right one done. [...]
Thu, Jul 01 2010
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Meet the NAD CEO Finalists in Philadelphia!
National Association of the Deaf blogs Video: On Wednesday afternoon, July 7, 2010, the four finalists for the NAD Chief Executive Officer position will give their presentations starting at 4:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time in the Grand Ballroom at the Philadelphia Marriott-Downtown Hotel. Attendees at the 50th Biennial NAD Conference will have th...
Thu, Jul 01 2010
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Why can't all drive throughs do this?
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone.Here's something that came across in my surfing on the web world. [link] Now I liked seeing this OrderAssit button at this drive through area. Why cant fast food places use them in high deaf populations areas like Rochester, NY, and Washington, DC as well as other major cities? Why can't fast food places see that this is a need to make things easier. ...
Thu, Jul 01 2010
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London: Meeting Tina (Funny Old Life)
SpeakUpLibrarian While in London, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Tina aka Funny Old Life. We met on a Sunday afternoon at the Imperial War Museum. I chose this venue because I knew my son would be well entertained exploring the museum on his own while I had a chat with Tina.I met Tina at the museum's front entrance. I already knew what she looked like from photos and that she...
Thu, Jul 01 2010
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My hearing test..
Liz's Blog My hearing still remains worser after my hearing test today. I was upset all over again. I tried not to, as I was aiming not to get my hopes up and only smile if my results turned out better. Obviously...deep inside somewhere, I was hoping. I have new hearing aids that should help me a [...]
Thu, Jul 01 2010
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Test of Inline CSS in WordPress.com Blog
Daniel Greene Apparently, you can't use embedded style sheets in WordPress.com, but you can use inline styles. In this post, I'm going to attempt to replicate one of my old CSS-styled HTML pages. I'll start with my CSS Font Properties Test that ... Continue reading →
Thu, Jul 01 2010
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The 30 Day Journal Challenge – Prompt 18
Liz's Blog Prompt Number 18: Music is one of my greatest things ever!! It transforms emotions that I can't even imagine putting into words. I love it. Today I want you to create some kind of playlist. It can be your Summer playlist, your July playlist, songs from your wedding day, or favourite songs of all time. This [...]
Thu, Jul 01 2010
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Still Here. . .
Please face me, I read lips If you read my blog regularly you might have noticed some changes.  I trashed a lot of old posts that were randomly showing up in my facebook account.  The only old posts I left were an early series on ‘deaf ... Continue reading →
Thu, Jul 01 2010
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The Belly Button of Earth (Day 34)
Noah's Blog June 26, 2010 Some say that Jerusalem is the center of the Earth. But, ancient Greek people marked Delphi as the center of the Earth on the map. Thus, by them it was called the navel, the belly button, of Earth. Delphi was the site of the important oracle, a site where you received prophecies. [...]
Thu, Jul 01 2010 · Moved from DeafRead Extra
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Mommy Lives in A Trailer With Soldiers
We Never Landed In Holland I was just surfing around and saw some blog talk about when and if to move for your deaf child to get better opportunities. Well our story is a bit odd. When my son was born we lived in Los Angeles. My husband and I both worked in the film industry. That meant working long hours for ten months and two months off. The money was good and we had awesome benefits. I was ...
Wed, Jun 30 2010
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Funny Widex Commercial
Eh? What? Huh? This commercial for Widex is both funny and sad, but so true! Video is not captioned (I know! Ugh). So, I provided a transcript below the video: (Music and various background noises) Woman: Richard, I can't go on like this. I feel trapped, like I'm in a prison. Richard, I have to tell you. There's someone else. Richard: Right, --- am sure most of you ha...
Wed, Jun 30 2010
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HR3101 Forwarded to Full Committee!
Caption Action 2 Caption Action 2 just watched the webcast of HR3101's markup. There were some amendments proposed and it has been forwarded to the full committee.Subcommittee Markup of H.R. 3101, the “Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009The page also has the video in downloadable format as well as the opening statements and the amendments.
Wed, Jun 30 2010
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06/29/2010 - DeafMD's Founder throws out first pitch @ O's...
DeafMD.org News DeafMD's Founder throws out first pitch @ O's game as part of People magazine & MLB's "All Stars Among Us" campaign.
Wed, Jun 30 2010
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College Students Create Open Source Video Chat for ASL
Hearing Sparks College students at the University of Rochester have created an open source, free video chat program. The program, designed specifically for the One Laptop Per Child program, allows the caller to see both themselves and the person they have called. It was officially presented at the NTID Technology Symposium on June 22, 2010. The students eventually hope to port the p...
Tue, Jun 29 2010
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Natural Calcium Supplements --- from Eggs!
EcoDeaf Before you toss your egg shells into the compost bin, remember there's another use for them!Darla shares how to make your own natural calcium supplement using egg shells.
Mon, Jun 28 2010
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Isn’t it Ironic? Kill Bill (deafhood folks) I Really Do...
BigBenFactor's Blog Isn’t it ironic? I have noticed in the last year from deafhood folks who tried to convinced other deaf people that deafhood is a “personal journey” from birth to death. Embrace it, they say. I watched some vloggers (I cannot remember who, there were many), explained what deafhood is. I have witnessed commentators debating on [...]
Sat, Jun 26 2010
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Movie Rental Options for the Deaf
Hearing Sparks Recently The tech geek dad wrote about how Hollywood Video is going out of business, and he has had to look into other options for movie rentals. He has tried out Netflix, but unfortunately Netflix has yet to caption an adequate number of their "on-demand" movies.I wanted to write about another option that is often overlooked, but which can be cheaper even than a Redb...
Fri, Jun 11 2010
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