My friend and I decided to go clubbing to celebrate my...
The deaf boy in the world My friend and I decided to go clubbing to celebrate my freedom also that I am back home from New York. It was blast and interesting for me at the same time. I decided to just wear my right processor because I hear from that side better than the other side. Wearing two can be cumbersome sometime. I turned the volume to 0 on program 1 which is for everyday use. I could ...
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Boost for Schools for the Deaf
Jamie Berke (About.com) For years, schools for the deaf nationwide watched their enrollment shrink, as parents who were often unaware of their existence, enrolled their children in local programs. Now, California has a...
Education Legal Sat, Aug 30 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

I Want to Live–Captioned Version
A Deaf Mom Shares Her World Dear Bill Crestwell: Thank you.  Thank you.  And thank you, again. Back in June, I wrote a post over at Disaboom about how frustrated I was to navigate through You Tube videos without captions.  I shared one of my favorite songs and posted the lyrics in the blog.  Along came Bill Crestwell.  He left a comment: “Don't forget, [...]
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Henrietta deaf man goes to court to fight tickets; says he...
Jim's DEEP Thoughts I also think Mendon Ponds Park employees needs to be educated along with police employees.
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Introduction to Deafhood: Overview and Key Terms
Dr. DonG.'s Deafhood Discourses The Medical and Cultural models of Deaf people represented by the Museum metaphor (see “The Museum”) are elaborated upon here, and other key terms (”deafness”, “oppression”, “colonialization” and “subalterns”) are explained or expanded upon.  (18:49 mins.) Play Quicktime version
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Introduction to Deafhood: “The Museum”
Dr. DonG.'s Deafhood Discourses The book opens with a metaphor of entering a museum about Deaf people.  The metaphorical story is retold here with a brief explanation of what the metaphor refers to. Play Quicktime version
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On the road to recovery! :)
SURROUND SOUND I would have updated sooner, but last night after the surgery I was just about unconscious. I went to the pre-surgery holding room around 1 and went through all the routine questions, the bloodwork, the IV, the oh-so-adorable compression stockings. Around 1:50 they informed me that Dr. Haynes was in the building and started pushing my bed towards the OR. The anesthesi...
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Ahhh!
icedpinkchampagne So, I know I have totally not updated in awhile. AHHH! But the unfortunate thing is that I haven't found anything that's particularly scintillating. I'm also working on moving this to an actual website since I find that the more I progress or at least the more everything goes on, I have so much to write about- so much that it might actually profit from being split up ...
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Learning ASL Through the Book of Mormon
Deaf - Hearing Relationship It was one year ago when I decided to follow in the footsteps of our sweet return missionary interpreter, Rachel, who told me that the prophet promised that if we read the entire Book of Mormon in another language, we would have that language mastered. (See last paragraph of Awareness is Bliss.) Well, I have finally [...]
Media Language Sat, Aug 30 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Hallelujah !
At The Rim Cure for deafness now within reach ? Well, not quite, so carry on as you are..... just one media report I came across, there are 66 others, all welcoming the end of deafness and of course any more deaf people, despite the fact cochlear Hair degeneration is not THE primary cause of deafness, and no-one has taken the 'cure' yet, because it is not ready to be tried... it...
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Will all Deaf people FAIL the polygraph test??
DolphiaV's Deaf World
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The Beginning of my journey at Gallaudet University
Shining up to the Deaf World I'm officially an undergraduate student at Gallaudet University! I also am proud to share the news that I am majoring in Psychology. My journey begins---I will be posting more vlogs/blogs---sharing my thoughts related to discussions in classrooms... If any of you want to share your thoughts/discussions- pls free to do so:-DJade
Higher Education Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Who Cares About the Blood? How's the Eye?
Jamie Berke (About.com) Our eyes are very important to deaf people. We depend on them so much because for us, communication is so visual. So this morning, when I fell and hit my...
Culture Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Freedom Writers - Captioned Trailer
bill creswell To go along with Jodi's Review: On DVD Fresh–faced, idealistic twenty–three–year–old Erin Gruwell is ready to take on the world as she steps inside Wilson High School for her first day of teaching. Her class, a diverse group of racially charged teenagers from different walks of life–African Americans, Latinos, Asians, juvenile delinquents, gang members, an...
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NAD Ezine Issue
submit by: NAD 49th Biennial Conference Wrap-Up 2008 Conference Priorities Posted 2008 Conference Resolutions Posted 2008 Council of Representatives Meeting Minutes Posted Look for photos and memories of the conference in the July-August NADmag! Check out the NAD Conference blogs and vlogs.
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What’s the Buzz
Sudden Silence Here’s what’s happening: The buzzing is gone!  I pretty much never get that weird buzzing sound anymore.  When I first put my CI's on in the morning now, it is just VERY loud.  It takes about one minute for the sound to level off and get normal again. I had my second mapping on Wednesday morning, Aug. [...]
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11: Here We Go Again!
The Countdown To The Resurrection Thousands of Deaf people tuned in last Tuesday night to watch the premiere of fourth season on Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency mainly because they wanted to root for Martin ‘Marty' Ritchie. Not only that, there were encores of that show repeatedly all night long on Oxygen Channel and twice the next day. Naturally, many of [...]
Media Language Art and Storytelling Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Filipino Sign Language, anyone?
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers What makes Filipino Sign Language unique? What makes it similar? How is it related to other sign languages? Let's say, if I were an American man-about-town deaf person and I want to woo a gorgeous Filipina Deaf lady, how would I communicate with her?
Language Culture Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Education Us!!!
Deaf Dixie
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Lauren Ridloff - Deaf Scams
Channel i Vlogs Many of us have seen friends fall victim to a scam. We tell you how to avoid scams using a good mixture of common sense and intuition. Often, it's about thinking before you act.
Legal Culture Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

DBC in the News
Deaf Bilingual Coalition DBC was featured in the August 2008 issue of SIGNews, in an article written by staff writer Jennifer Dans-Wiley. To read...
Media Language Audism Education Fri, Aug 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Relearning Life
SayWhatClub Weblog Have you seen the becomeanex.org commercials that focus on relearning life without cigarettes?  The subjects of these commercials are going through their daily routines, but seem to be having trouble with even the most simple of tasks because of not physically having a cigarette in their hand.  I know you have seen them: A woman stumbles to her car, fumbling [...]
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Do You Believe Me Now?
SpeakUpLibrarian My husband landed in hot water with me this week and the story is pretty amusing (as told by me naturally) so I thought I'd share it.On Monday I heard the strangest noise coming from the basement. I was upstairs in the kitchen at the time. I went down to investigate and traced it to the hot water heater. Bang, bang, bang. Alarmed, I called my husband to come down righ...
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"Nothing of Special in LIS" // "Nada del Especial en el...
BLOGVISUALSIGNAREXTREME Daniel Stefani has made l' last videoclip dall' egg whites " Point of partenza". For the first time this video with the actors and the singer has learned the language of the signs and has demonstrated to all. It compliments to they for the will to learn the LIS, our mistress --- Stefani ha hecho l' videoclip pasado dall' " de las claras de huevo; Punto del Partenza"....
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YouTube Captions are “native” now
bill creswell As you may have already heard by now, YouTube has CC now. [link] This is welcome, and long overdue. It will accept .srt captions that Overstream creates, so your captions that you have already created can be imported, and used immediately. But you can only add captions to your own video. This is a big limitation, because I don't [...]
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