DBC's concerns about HEAR Indiana's Conference
Deaf Progressivism Part I Quicktime Youtube link, click here (Part I) Part II Quicktime Youtube link, click here (Part II) On behalf of Deaf Bilingual Coalition (DBC) which is a coalition that serves the mission to promote basic human right of all Deaf infants and young children to have access to language and cognitive development through American Sign Language and how ASL makes sig...
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DBC of Indiana's Rally @ The Garrison
Deaf Bilingual Coalition of Indiana Jill shares about an article, "Doing Deaf Differently in the 21st Century" that was circulated on the web and dated October 23, 2008 (Indianapolis, PRNewswire via COMTEX) - see link below. The National Deaf Bilingual Coalition, DBC Indiana State Chapter and Indiana Association of the Deaf are concerned about this statement "we are 'Doing Deaf Differently' which create...
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Parental Rights vs. Parental Responsibilities
Dr. DonG.'s Deafhood Discourses Parental Rights vs. Parental ResponsibilitiesThe discussion putting parental rights over Deaf children's rights has bothered me.  During my drive to work this week, I had the time (2 hours) to figure out why this bothers me.  In this vlog, I put parental rights into perspective.  Click on the link to see the vlog: Parental Rights [...]
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Do we have addicting to DVTV? Bad influence by DVTV?
submit by: LChaim2007 Just share with you what I feel about addicting to DVTV.
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Don't try this at home!
SURROUND SOUND My eight-year old, Claire, asked me before I left for Chicago if I would eat lunch with her at school one day. I promised her that I would when I got home, so yesterday I kept my word. When I arrived at the school I was seated at the visitors' table, which coincidentally is the hooligan table...the table where the troublemakers sit. One particularly adorable little ho...
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Gallaudet recruitment materials win top honors in MarCom...
Inside Gallaudet The Enrollment Marketing office under Enrollment Management recently won top honors for their Recruiter's Presentation DVD and awards for other recruiting materials in the MarCom Awards competition.
Higher Education Art and Storytelling Fri, Nov 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Change for People with Disabilities: Time to Email Obama!
ReunifyGally Change for People with Disabilities and Deaf People: Time to Email Obama! On November 4, 2008, millions of Deaf people and people with disabilities across the United States and around the world joined our non-disabled peers in watching the United States election results. Obama supporters cheered or wept to learn that the next US president [...]
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What Are My Options For Communicating With My Deaf Child?
The CI Circle News The choice of communication and educational methodology for children who are deaf can be a very heated and emotional issue. The debate about “oral” vs. “manual” methods goes back over 150 years to the days of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alexander Graham Bell. Each method has many parents, educators, advocates, and others promoting it.Ultimately, the choice of communi...
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ASL: Parents’ Rights vs Deaf Babies/Children’s Rights
Mishka Zena For some time, discussions about parental rights vs Deaf children's right were held on the Deaf Cyberspace. Most of the discourses were illuminating and meaningful. I am encouraged to see some constructive communication occurring. We are actually starting to understand each other out better with less cyberbullying.  Some people insist that all Deaf babies and ch...
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A Quantum of Hearing
At The Rim I watched THIS rather speechless (Unusual for me !), as Ms Ballard the RNID's new CEO, failed politician, and ex-RSPCA charity executive, summarily dismissed deaf people, sign language, culture, deaf inclusion at the RNID, empowerment, training schemes for deaf to move up the ladder, and the icing on her weird charitable cake, declaring the deaf social model was bunk....
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Holly ASL Interpreting Panjabi MC with Trillium Tribe
DeafJoke.tv Holly interpreting “Lose Yourself” by Eminem vs Panjabi MC in American Sign Language with Trillium Tribe backing it all up with belly dance. This is serious multi-layered fusion! Created by mendobones. Tags: ASL, aslterp, Belly, bellydance, dance, eminem, fusion, Holly, interpreting, mc, newstead, panjabi, sign-language, tribe, trillium
Art and Storytelling Fri, Nov 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Scammers hitting DeafVP.com again/ Bisons/ PSU/ First Friday
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!Lately, I have been hearing from my good friend Robert G, who writes in his blog, [link] the latest attacks that are coming out from scammers that are hitting us via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). This time, they're targeting the younger less tech savvy kids who would gladly give out passwords and information to anyone they'd trust on the 'net. Only th...
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Adding Captions to YouTube: Resource Links
bill creswell ProudGeek Reviews of some captioning methods Captioning Your Videos #1: Windows Movie Maker (Software) Captioning Your Videos #2: Jumpcut (online) Captioning Your Videos #3: Subtitle Workshop (Software) Captioning Your Videos #4: Overstream (Online) Captioning Your Videos #7: OpenCaptions.com (Online) Other Captioning Options: BubblePly (Online) Veotag (Online) T...
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BSL Interpreters HIDE Issues EXPOSED NOW!
ActivistBSL VLog (My English lack of my real emotions contain more information while playing the video clips - my BSL is emotional more information than English).Hello. I am very crossed why the interpreter again pick deaf people (blacklist). They pick deaf people they really like or get well with that person, and remove other deaf people from their assignment!! I BEEN FIND OUT!! SH...
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My Epiphany at ALDAcon ~
The Ear of My Heart While attending the 20th Anniversary of the ALDAcon in Chicago, LaRonda shares an epiphany or self-realization of her evolution from an “early” Late-Deafened person to an individual with a healthy Deaf identity. (Transcript below) (8:32 Mins.) Hosted by: Videoserver.us For the YouTube version, click here. Transcript: Hello! I'm here in Chicago! Y...
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Culture Tech Thu, Nov 06 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Nigerian Scam Targets Deaf Youngsters
RSGeo-007 I just returned tonight from having to deal with someone's teenager who was about to get scammed. I got a copy of the chat log and knew just what was going on. I fired off a response email to all involved including the teen's teachers.This is what I sent;I've seen this conversation and this is EXACTLY the thing I have been seeing and hearing about all over the place.T...
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Things that I wish I had
Tishia's Thoughts Floors that vibrate if the children are getting into trouble. Or maybe not…. The floors would never stop vibrating, would they? A doorbell that does not only set off a strobe light, but also announces “Resident [...]
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Joel in Guatemala, Day Three: Visiting Quetzaltenango
DeafNation I woke up to a beautiful Guatemalan morning, at 7 AM, despite the low-flying clouds coming through the mountain range. It was such a gorgeous day for a drive! Hitting the road, we saw how windy it was and enjoyed the view from the car as we drove to Quetzaltenango, well known as Xela, from Antigua.
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Is "BOLT" New Movie in 3-D Capable of Open/Closed Captions...
RLMDEAF  Is the new Disney film, "Bolt" capable of showing captions with the 3-D features at selected theatre(s)? It is about the adventure of superdog in computer animated features.  There are many 3-D and IMAX films shown with closed captions thru the use of Rear Window Captioning (RWC), but what about open captions. Too complicated to be the 3-D films or IMAX films shown w...
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Burrell Behavorial Health Services not meeting the Deaf...
Show Me Deaf Community Mr. Todd Schaible, CEO and President :todd.schaible@coxhealth.comBurrell Behavorial Health1300 Bradford ParkwaySpringfield, MO 65804Dear Mr. Schaible:It has come to my attention that there are issues at Burrell Behavorial Health. There has been lack of equal communication access and lack of professional mental health services for the deaf. The former and current ...
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Trading Klondikes For Health
Five String Guitar Next week I go for a mapping on my working cochlear. I want to try something different to get my comprehension on the phone in particular up a notch. In two weeks I will have Advanced Bionics (the manufacturer of my CI) and my audiologist run a few tests. They are actually going to do some electrophysiological measures with my cochlear implant.Not sure what all that m...
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Deaf History - John C., Breckinridge, Vice President to...
RLMDEAF Not many of us, deaf Americans realized that there was someone in the nation's high office already had interconnected with the Deaf history- John Cabell Breckinridge. He served as a trustee to the Kentucky School for the Deaf in Danville before elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and Vice President to President James Buchanan.Senator John McCain would be not ...
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Insurance, revisited
Sudden Silence Well, the insurance issue still isn’t officially resolved yet but I’m feeling hopeful that it will all turn out in my favor.  That’s the short update.  :)  I thought I’d go ahead and write a more detailed, coherent explanation of insurance and how it applies to me, since we all have such different insurance experiences [...]
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Deaf Anthology # 119: "Freshkid"
Deaf Anthology Deaf Anthology were able to meet up with Bob, Gallaudet youngest freshman in history, he is only 11 years old, can you imagine that, it's unbelievable. These are the transcripts from that interview:DA: "What are you doing on campus, why so young?"Bob: "I dropped out of elementary school after reading somewhere that the average Deaf graduated from high school with a fo...
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Our Future First Deaf Bilingual President of U.S.!
Deaf Progressivism Quicktime My son, Anthony Victor (A.V.), was assigned by his teacher to present as John McCain although we are Obama supporters. Many people who saw A.V.'s presentation thought he has the potential. A.V. announced to me that he wants to become a lawyer to fight against those who ban ASL and even considered to be a president of U.S. someday. YouTube coming up soon.
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