Haley Sadler: My advice for tackling bullies
The Limping Chicken High school can be a nightmare. A lot of people get bullied for who they are and for being a little different. I went through hell and back in school, putting up with people bullying me, teasing me, thinking it’s funny and clever to say “What! What!” to me all the time. Because I have [...]
Tue, May 01 2012

La Familia Silencio
Cultura Surda Categoria: Animação  País: México Animação: “La Familia Silencio“ Línguas: Espanhol e Lengua de Señas Mexicana (LSM) Site oficial: [link] (...) Um menino surdo (Alejandro) no seio de uma família ouvinte – e as tão conhecidas barreiras de comunicação quebradas aos poucos, com o aprendizado das línguas de sinais. Um curta-metragem ...
Tue, May 01 2012

Need An Assistive Device? Home Modification? No Insurance?...
Xpressive Handz Fabulous Husband, our 8 year old son and I recently attended a wonderful event, The Independence In Vogue which featured a fashion show with models of various physical challenges. It was a wonderful display of positive attitude regardless of the challenges we face in life.Besides the fashion show, there was an array of tables set up with all kinds of mo...
Tue, May 01 2012

WFD President to Keynote the 2012 NAD Conference
National Association of the Deaf blogs The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is pleased to announce that Colin Allen, president of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) will be the keynote speaker during the Opening Ceremonies of the 51st Biennial NAD Conference, July 3-7, 2012 in Louisville, KY. read more
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Call for Certified Deaf Interpreters
National Association of the Deaf blogs Due to the increasing number of Deaf-Blind registrants, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and Access Interpreting (Access) are re-opening the Call for Deaf Interpreters and extending the deadline to May 30, 2012. Please join our team of interpreters at the 51st Biennial National Association of the Deaf Conference in Louisville, Kentucky and make this the...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

A New, Invisible Implant
Hearing Sparks Hearing devices have consistently been getting smaller and smaller as scientists find ways to move away from clunky, large devices to nearly invisible aids. And it seems like the smaller they are, the more interest people have. My blog post on the Esteem implantable hearing aid has received dozens of comments over the course of two years since I published it and I've ...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

NTID-Related Exhibits Planned at Imagine RIT Fest
NTID News Visitors to this year’s Imagine RIT Innovation + Creativity Festival will have no shortage of exhibits, demonstrations and hands-on activities to experience from NTID students, faculty and staff. The event, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 5, is free and open to the public. Numerous sign language interpreters will be provided throughout the campus.
Mon, Apr 30 2012

What To Know About Hearing Impairments
Deaf YouVideo Video in captions - A public service announcement about hearing impairments.
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Social Suicide Note
JonSSon The more I get in touch with my Deafhood, the less I want to be a part of the Hearing world. It is a healthy form of suicide. It is a Deaf success story... Leaving the stressful ways of life ... Continue reading →
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Where Do You Need Captioning?
ccacblog Q: Where do YOU need CAPTIONING? (outside of television, movies, and internet videos please) – Tell us here! Life goes on, every day – where do you wish you had real time speech-to-text easy to read, full quality? at home? at work? in school? at conferences? and ? Talk to us now. We know we [...]
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Tory's Story: Archaeology buff, language lover, and BU's...
submit by: Jenny Mackintosh BU Today profiles Tory Sampson, who is learning Arabic with the help of ASL interpreters. "I've found that if I meet someone who learns ASL and tries to communicate with me," she says, "I have so much more respect for them. I'm glad that they actually try. I'd like to do the same for Arabic speakers."
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Deaf news: Loud Music advertising campaign features ears...
The Limping Chicken The charity Action on Hearing Loss has launched an advertising campaign called Loud Music, which features ears being hammered and drilled to make more young people aware that listening to loud music can cause tinnitus and hearing loss. The images will be displayed across Camden in London on billboards, telephone boxes, and in cinemas, with [...]
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Our April round-up!
The Limping Chicken With May kicking off tomorrow, it's time to reflect on another busy month for the Limping Chicken. Here's a round up of some of April's biggest hits! One of my personal favourites, and one that's been rapidly clocking up views on the site, is Asher Woodman-Worrell's story about how his friend Ben Thomson conquered university. [...]
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Deaf Culture
NeiL's Blog Deaf CultureBelieve it or not, deaf people see deafness as a culture, not disability. What is Deaf culture? Before I make an introduction for Deaf culture, we have to know the definition of culture in general and what things that makes it a culture. A culture is made up of patterns, products, behaviors, and beliefs coming from social, ethnic, and age group. Th...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

A Man's Perspective on Deafness
NeiL's Blog A Visual Language? Did you know that Signed English is not actually a sign language? I would not call it a sign language, because English language comes in three different forms which are speaking, writing, and signing. First off, you speak English when you speak words in stranded English. You write English when you write words in English grammar. You sign English...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

What Is It Like to Be Deaf??
NeiL's Blog I sometime wondered about if people, who could hear fully ever imagine themselves in a deaf (or culturally Deaf) person’s shoe or not. Maybe they have thought about it before, but not giving it a lot of thoughts in different way. For instance, to some people, deafness is often thought of as just a disability. For culturally Deaf people, Deafness is not really s...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Deaf West Theatre
Cultura Surda Categoria: Teatro País: Estados Unidos Línguas: Inglês e American Sign Language (ASL) Site oficial: [link] (...) Nos arredores de Hollywood (Los Angeles, EUA), um teatro de surdos cativa públicos dos mais variados tipos, partilhando as línguas de sinais e a expressividade das artes surdas com um grande número de espectadores. Criado em 1991, o Deaf West [...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Hearing Parents: Good Relationship with a Deaf Child
NeiL's Blog Note: This blog is dedicated to my closest friends who've been mentoring me for years and also to my loving parents who tried their best to provide me love as they could. Hearing Parents: How to have a good relationship with your deaf childNeil R., bloggerWhy is it so important to have such a good relationship with a child who cannot hear? I'm aware that having a deaf...
Mon, Apr 30 2012

The Secret Deafie: Another cinema subtitle fail
The Limping Chicken The Secret Deafie is a series of anonymous columns written by different writers. Today’s Deafie tells us about a cinematic subtitle fail. My partner and I waited in keen anticipation for The Woman in Black to come out with subtitles – perhaps because we had been told it was a good, scary thriller that makes [...]
Mon, Apr 30 2012

Keith Wann Interviews Rachel Coleman (Transcript)
Xpressive Handz Keith Wann of Cultural Bridges interviewed Rachel Coleman of Signing Time Here is the transcript of that radio program.>> In its quest to provide an open forum for discussion ofcontroversial issues, this station allows hosts and their guests toexpress themselves without any significant censorship. You areadvised that any views expressed by the ho...
Sun, Apr 29 2012

Notícias do II Congresso de Educação Bilíngue de Surdos...
Vendo Vozes Olá pessoal,Cheguei ontem do Congresso, muito cansada e com saudades de casa, mas superfeliz por tudo o que assisti, todas as pessoas que conheci e todas as ideias trocadas, enfim, tudo o que aprendi. Nunca tinha vivido momentos com tanta interação entre línguas juntas! Em pouco tempo, nos comunicávamos em Português, Espanhol, Inglês, Libras, sem falar nas inú...
Sun, Apr 29 2012

Kids say the darndest things...
The Deaf Project So said Art Linkletter and Bill Cosby... and I couldn't agree more! So, I had this captive audience of the sweetest first graders ever gathered around my feet as I began to talk about some of the causes of deafness and what it might feel like to be deaf. Their wonderful teacher had already prepared them by showing a film about being Deaf and posting the manual alphabe...
Sun, Apr 29 2012

Read this today...
Miss Kat's Deaf journey "Although the development of spoken language is a major purpose of implantation (Geers, 2006; Incesulu et al., 2003), not all parents value this outcome to the same extent. Archbold et al. (2006) reported that 25% of parents who responded to their survey did not expect their child to talk after implantation, and 13% felt neutrally. Furthermore, 73% o...
Sun, Apr 29 2012

Over the Weekend
SpeakUpLibrarian Over the weekend I got caught up with e)'s excellent blog and learned about the controversy over an "ASL" music video featured in a Huffington Post article. Reading the original story and the comments below it, led me to this hilarious video by Catherine Tate.Watching this video led to viewing many of her other comedy clips on YouTube. It was a fun way to spend a Satu...
Sun, Apr 29 2012

Update On “‘Signing Impaired’?!”
Deafia Blog Older Post:  [link] Hello everyone. I've read comments here on Deafia Blog and Facebook. I now understand what “signing impaired” means. It means someone who don't know sign language. I was thinking about “Hearing Impaired” that Deaf people don't approve of. I misunderstood about signing impaired. I took it as like “he...
Sun, Apr 29 2012