"Wack it up My Faded" (Misinterpreting Music Lyrics)
Eh? What? Huh? Like most deaf and hard of hearing individuals, I can never understand the lyrics or what is being sung in most songs. A lot of times if I can't hear what they are singing, I will hum it or make it up. As a child of the 1980s I was always watching MTV and its music videos. My older sister told me that when I was 5 years old or so I would sing a song to myself that we...
Tue, Feb 16 2010
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Government to discourage teaching of sign language in...
Campaigning for deaf children I've blogged about some of my ‘official' work on the Children, Schools and Families Bill. But I've also been doing some extra-curricular ‘unofficial' lobbying work behind the scenes, trying to get clarification on something quite worrying... In a nutshell, the Bill proposes a new law whereby schools will have to teach primary sc...
Tue, Feb 16 2010
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But he lives in a Hearing world!
We Never Landed In Holland For years I have sat patiently and listened to hearing parents of deaf children lament, testify, proclaim and shout that their deaf children live in a hearing world.Yes they do.They also live in a Christian, Atheist, republican, democrat, black, white, gay, straight, fat, skinny, short, tall world. They live in a world full of different cultures and yes, languages. Th...
Mon, Feb 15 2010
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