Deaf LGBTIQ Coming Out Stories Wanted
Deaf Queer News Share your coming out story and inspire other Deaf Queers who are struggling with coming out. We are accepting both written and video submissions. Your written story may be up to three pages in length. Video submissions may be up to five minutes in length and must be submitted in Quicktime format. All submissions must include your real full name, age, city, state [...]
Tue, Jun 19 2007

Erin Casler - New Media, New Access Issues
DeafDC.com I love my Digital Influence class. It's being taught by John Bell, managing director/executive creative director of 360 Degree Digital Influence. Public relations in the age of digital influence is about leveraging social media to create conversations with potential influencers. Heady stuff. As much as I'm enjoying what I'm learning about in [...]
Tue, Jun 19 2007

Welcoming Jon Savage to DeafRead
DeafRead Team Movie Length: 1:00 We are proud to announce that Jon Savage will be joining the DeafRead team! He did his first vlog a few days before DeafRead was launched. His passion for vlogs shows at his personal blog, Lenois.com. We'll be calling him a Vlog Media Specialist. Jon will produce vlogs for DeafRead and explain what we are all about, by translating select [...]
Tue, Jun 19 2007

Mac OS X Secrets Revealed
deafmac.org I will start traveling in July to several cities across America to reveal all the secrets about Mac OS X. I will show you all the productivity stuff you could do on your Mac right out of your box. I will also talk about accessibility tools. The revelations is generously made possible by Hands On VRS and we will also have the opportunity to learn how to make VRS [...]
Mon, Jun 18 2007

Maine School Faces Challenge of Deaf ESL Students
Jamie Berke (About.com) As reported in this article about deaf teenage ESL students in Maine, more school districts are facing the challenge of teaching deaf immigrant students. Educators take note: This article mentions...
Mon, Jun 18 2007

Tamara Foronda named CAC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Inside Gallaudet The Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) has named Gallaudet’s own volleyball star Tamara “Tomijo” Foronda the 2007 Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Mon, Jun 18 2007

First-Ever National Queer Interpreter Symposium
Deaf Queer News BLeGIT is the National Member Group for queer interpreters, and we have a very exciting event coming up. We are proud to announce that this summer, BLeGIT will host its first ever National Symposium in San Francisco, CA on August 2nd and 3rd. This historic gathering will be a place to gather together and network, socialize, learn about shared issues, celebrate the [...]
Sun, Jun 17 2007

John Tracy Clinic Loses Namesake
Jamie Berke (About.com) The John Tracy Clinic will long outlive the deaf boy it was named for. That deaf boy just died today at the age of 82. The Los Angeles Times published...
Sat, Jun 16 2007

A New Deaf Priest
Jamie Berke (About.com) A deaf man, Paul Zirimenya, has just been ordained a Catholic priest. Originally from Uganda, he lost his hearing as a young child. Interestingly, he is not the only deaf...
Sat, Jun 16 2007

About.com Deafness Newsletter
Jamie Berke (About.com) Did you know that the About.com Deafness site has a free weekly e-mail newsletter? It includes a special feature that is not on this website. Every week, I select one...
Sat, Jun 16 2007

AT&T offers Text Accessibility Plan
deafmac.org I hope the plan will be applied to iPhones. Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) AT&T is pleased to announce a new Text Accessibility Plan (TAP). TAP was developed for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and/or hearing loss, and was designed with input from the community. The $29.99 per month Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) includes: 5,000 [...]
Fri, Jun 15 2007

Interpreters or Captioning in the Classroom?
Jamie Berke (About.com) According to today's SGVTribune.com, a deaf mainstreamed student has won a battle to get real-time captioning in her classroom. The school district is appealing, claiming an interpreter would be enough....
Thu, Jun 14 2007

Guest Blogger - HDTVs and Captioning: Make a Difference
DeafDC.com By Sheila Conlon Mentkowski My personal view, as a deaf consumer, is that if the technology is not accessible then I need to do something about it. I am married to a deaf man and we find ourselves facing technological issues almost everyday. One recent example happened last month when our TV was on the blink. [...]
Thu, Jun 14 2007

Share Your Views on the Infant and Toddler Program (IDEA)
NAD Advocacy The U.S. Department of Education has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on the Infant and Toddler Program (Part C) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It can be found at [link] If you have an interest in deaf and hard of hearing babies, please send your thoughts to the Department on appropriate programming for these babies and their [...]
Thu, Jun 14 2007

Shane Feldman - What Are Hearing Parents Thinking!?
DeafDC.com This blog isn't about whether it is right or wrong to teach a deaf child to speak or hear/lip-read (although I am sure some will discuss it in the comments), but understanding what is going through a hearing parent's mind. Once we venture to understand this, accept it, and then learn to work with it, [...]
Thu, Jun 14 2007

Seniors and Hearing Loss
Jamie Berke (About.com) It is no secret why many senior citizens will not wear hearing aids. LaRonda covers the well-known reasons why in depth in her blog. Best of all, she adds her...
Thu, Jun 14 2007

Alumni make a cross country trek for Personal Discovery
Inside Gallaudet Two Gallaudet alumni, Heather and Dana Arazi, just finished the trip of their lives by biking from Los Angeles, Calif. to Washington, D.C.
Wed, Jun 13 2007

Sports Rules Broken at Gallaudet?
Jamie Berke (About.com) Will the problems of Gallaudet ever end? If it isn't one thing it's another. Today Elizabeth (MishkaZena) brought to the deaf community's attention the fact there were "improper actions" by...
Tue, Jun 12 2007

Sites that send the most traffic to DeafRead
DeafRead Team Back in the early days when I first launched Fomdi, I would publish lists of sites that were sending the most traffic. This was to say "Thanks", and more importantly, return the favor by linking back to them. It can be difficult announcing and advertising a new website so any help is appreciated. Here are the top 15 sites that are sending the most traffic [...]
Tue, Jun 12 2007

Students show their support for Virginia Tech
Inside Gallaudet A group of students continues funraising efforts through the summer.
Tue, Jun 12 2007

Shane Feldman - Causation vs. Correlation: Kimmel vs....
DeafDC.com Dr. Karen L. Kimmel, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Technologies since June 2004 and a fully tenured Associate Professor in the Department of English at Gallaudet University has sued Gallaudet for employment discrimination, based on a variety of reasons, including “not deaf enough”. The complaint defines “Deaf Culture” [...]
Tue, Jun 12 2007

Josh Mendelsohn - Register Your Personal Relay Number with...
DeafDC.com It never fails. I sit down for dinner with my family, and ZZzzzttt goes my pager / smartphone. Trying not to look rude, I steal a peek at it while my partner glares at me, and ... It's an email from an IP relay agent, leaving a message on my personal relay number. But there's [...]
Tue, Jun 12 2007

In from NAD: New Media Closed Captioning
deafmac.org After a good discussion concerning new media (iTunes, Quicktime, etc...) and closed captioning, I sent an email to NAD to see where we are with getting support to get FCC to enforce new captioning laws. Here is the response from Rosaline (Director, Law and Advocacy Center at NAD): —- begin letter —- The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) has been [...]
Mon, Jun 11 2007

Wants to Work with Hearing Impaired Warfighters
Jamie Berke (About.com) An About visitor asked: I am a Cadet in the Air Force ROTC program at the University of Arizona. I also am taking classes in Sign Language and Interpreter training. The...
Mon, Jun 11 2007

DeafRead 10,000!
Jamie Berke (About.com) Not even a full year old, sometime today DeafRead.com reached the milestone of 10,000 posts! According to the "Last" page on Deafread.com, the first blog post that aired on Deafread.com...
Mon, Jun 11 2007