What does He Hear?
We Never Landed In Holland About 12 years ago....After our first home visit we set up an appointment with an audiologist at the House Ear Institute. My son was tested and we were told he needed hearing aides if he was ever going to have usable speech or hearing. They also mentioned we wouldn't know if they would work at all. Insurance didn't cover them so we needed to pay $1200 out of pocket.W...
Sun, Sep 20 2009
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Welcome to Holland- and why we never landed there
We Never Landed In Holland About 12 years ago...When we found out my son was deaf I was in a pool of grief for 3 days. The person I thought he was didn't exist. I had never meet a deaf person and now I was meeting one for the first time. I was terrified . As the days went by I read enough to move away from the sadness. I came across "Welcome to Holland". If you have a deaf child you know what t...
Sat, Sep 19 2009
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My Preteen Son's Journey to CI
via link submit Talking about my preteen son's journey to CI.
Tue, Jul 07 2009
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"Intérpretes de ASL/Español" ahora en DeafRead
Intérpretes de ASL/Español Bueno, ¡ando súper emocionada desde ayer! Y una de las razones es que este blog fue aceptado para formar parte de DeafRead. [Insertar "victory dance" aquí.] Algunos se preguntarán: "Ajá...¿y eso? ¿Qué tiene?" Pues, déjenme explicarles... DeafRead es un altamente reconocido directorio de blogs de Sordos en Internet. De hecho, yo me mantengo al día con lo que sucede en...
Tue, Jun 09 2009
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Paradigm Wars: AGBELL v. ASL coaltion groups
You are you and your circumstances I was reading the recent Volta Voices, yes-I am a “member” of AGBELL by paying my dues, but more importantly, I was interested in their literature, their justifications, their ideology, and how they come up with “evidence” to build on their Oral/AVT curriculum. I strongly believe that it is important to know all of the players involved when shaping the future of deaf...
Mon, Jun 08 2009
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Low Expectations?
Ann_C's i.reflections After the firestorm involving Deaf Pundit's ”Let Me Show You Reality!” blog article (now dropped from DR), we're learning that DP's article was dropped due to what DR/ DVTV editorship believes to be copyright infringement of Barb DiGiovanni's video comment.  A blog written by DR editor Jared Evans reminds DR/ DVTV readers that Barb ...
Fri, May 29 2009
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Let me show you reality!
The Deaf Edge [ASL Version] Barbara DiGiovanni, who's known as Barb DiGi, left a video comment (at the bottom of this blog post) over on DVTV that literally made my jaw drop open. It takes a lot to make that happen. I have absolutely no idea what brought this on, but I am appalled at this behavior. [...]
Sun, May 24 2009
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Any Deaf ever serve the jury duty before?
Insane World of Misha Hello, everyone.... Guess what? Last week, I got the mail from the court for the jury duty for the first time in a long time. I have to check in next Thursday and see if I'm able to serve or not. Tomorrow I'm going to call the court [...]
Tue, May 12 2009
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Marlee Matlin gets her Walk of Fame star!
Tayler Mayer Congratulations, Marlee! This blog supports video comments, but you may also leave video comments at DeafVIDEO.TV
Wed, May 06 2009
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DeafRead Moderators Appreciation Day!
DeafRead Team Would you believe it if I said DeafRead had 45,298 articles?! 1,028 days passed since DeafRead was born, so this figures to a mind-boggling 44.064 posts per day. In and out! On Saturdays and Sundays. On Valentine's Day, July the Fourth and Thanksgiving! (Thankfully DeafRead slows down on these days.) Before you start saying the moderators could [...]
Wed, May 06 2009
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Open Letter To ALL Deaf Organizations
The Deaf Edge Two recent incidents in the media has prompted me to write this open letter to all Deaf organizations. The first incident in the media was the “House Divided” episode on the television show, House MD. In that episode, the show turned into a science fiction instead of being the usual medical drama. A boy was [...]
Tue, May 05 2009
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Deaf child allegedly terrorized by video death threats
via link submit An investigation conducted by officers in the Youth Bureau of the Norwalk Police Department into a death threat made to a 10-year-old deaf Norwalk girl led to the arrest of a deaf juvenile male by New York City police.
Fri, May 01 2009
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Crab Theory and an Epiphany
valhallian.com The can of worms was indeed opened as I predicted when I brought up the issue of reverse audism, and for good reason.  While it is an extremely sensitive issue, but it needs to be addressed. When I first entered the “real deaf life” when I went to college, I learned of the crab theory [...]
Thu, Apr 09 2009
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Video Showing A Cop Breaking Deaf Driver’s Nose During A...
Mishka Zena To see the video clip of the cop smashing Deaf driver's face into the rear windshield,  Video On Demand: Latest News Video | WFAA.com It began with a routine traffic stop due to excessive speeding over one year ago. The Deaf driver, Christopher  Ferrell, attempted to retrieve his wallet to show the identification card showing his deafness. [...]
Thu, Apr 09 2009
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Audists or Audism Behavior? (Part I of II)
Deaf Progressivism This is a part one of two vlog to discuss about my experiences encountering several ignorant hearing people who made statements that exhibit audism behavior. Discussion takes place by looking at situations on how we are to deal with these kinds of audism behavior and how are we to describe situations by identifying the behavior rather than labeling the individuals aud...
Sun, Apr 05 2009
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Evidence of Audism Behavior from AGB and Ways to Combat...
Deaf Progressivism Summary: This vlog focuses on the evidence of audism behavior by AGBell and how we all have agreed to stop audism but may have different ideas to do it. It is so important to recognize that there is no one right way to do it as it requires multi-approaches to combat audism. The past and recent actions of AG Bell who pressured the media about not showing sign languag...
Sat, Apr 04 2009
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Audism Free America
Miss Kat's Deaf journey This blog is for my daughter, so this post is going to be deleted in a week, but I feel like I need to say this:I find this organization frustrating. If people put this effort into educating parents of deaf children about the benefits of ASL, instead of fighting with AG Bell, I think many things could actually change. Parents don't go to AG Bell for the answers, they ...
Fri, Apr 03 2009
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Public Apology from AGBell = Closure?
via link submit If we approached AGBell with a formal request for AGBell to issue a public apology for its actions since Milan Conference 1880 and AGBell agreed to issue it, would it help put a closure on many levels?
Sun, Mar 29 2009
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Don't Judge Them Right Away!
Waving With My Deaf Hands For the vloggers and commenters under several vlogs, having a hot debate on Audism and AFADon’t Judge Them Right Away!Don’t look at or assume people what they’re up to. Don’t judge on what they do; you could be wrong.Don’t assume what their action is about.Don’t say if we don’t read their minds.Do you really know if they’re bad or good?Don’t point at them, don’t look...
Sat, Mar 28 2009
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The lemmings…..what/who are they?
Insane World of Misha Hello, everyone..... What does it tell you? What does it apply to some of you and/or us? Hmm? Well? Ciao, Misha
Fri, Mar 27 2009
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Audism or Ethnocentrism?
via link submit Questioning about ethnocentrism being practiced in Deaf community.
Fri, Mar 27 2009
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Two new DeafRead features
DeafRead Team “Hello everyone! About 2 months ago, Jared contacted the DeafRead team to meet online. We recently had the opportunity to do this a couple weeks ago. It was pretty much an open table meeting - we could talk about anything. A number of features were proposed to improve the DeafRead experience. The second feature will be explained [...]
Thu, Mar 26 2009
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Reclaiming My Blog.
Der Sankt Speaks... I got bitch-slapped. Hard. A reality check. Somewhere along the way, I lost sight of myself. It's kind of funny it took me this long to realize it. I've lost control of my blog. That's why it's a personal decision of mine to come back and reclaim it. The truth be told, I don't really care [...]
Wed, Mar 25 2009
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Live Coverage of Daphne Wright’s Appeal to Supreme Court
Mishka Zena Live blog: Daphne Wright's apperance before state Supreme Court | argusleader.com | Argus Leader It's in progress now.
Wed, Mar 25 2009
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