South of Texas Hurricane Ike ll
Billy Clark Studios More update about South of Texas HurricaneIke ll also show slidepixs.
Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, Oct 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

CONGRATULATIONS VAL!!!! INTRO: I'M ALL EARS!
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Look out Jenny McCarthy! If there is one person, one "Mother Warrior" who has always encouraged me, provided me with necessary info and links, offered her experience and assistance unconditionally - with great love and passion...that would be VAL BLAKELY! And so, it is with great emotion and pride that I share with everyone who doesn't already know, that VAL has writt...
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Former Academic Bowl Participants Enjoy Lunch with CPSO...
CPSO at Gallaudet University On October 1, 2008, over 20 former Academic Bowl participants from across the U.S. enjoyed an Italian lunch at Old Jim with CPSO staffers.  The participants, who now attend Gallaudet as first-year students, talked about their Academic Bowl experiences and answered trivia questions presented by Sherry Duhon, CPSO staffer and Academic Bowl coordinator. To view photos [....
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Watch TV on your laptop
I look so I can hear.... Bookmark this link [ BBC iPLAYER - SIGN ZONE ] which shows repeats of programmes with BSL and / or captions. I love it!
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Third Times A Charm?
Five String Guitar On October 14th, I am scheduled to have my third cochlear implant surgery. The first one was back in April of this year, and although I have "dropped" a few electrons, the surgery was successful, and my left side gets all the noise that's fit to hear since it's activation in May.In July of this year, my dream to become bilateral got one step closer, as I was implanted...
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How I survived Fingerspelling
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers Wikipedia defines fingerspelling as the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands. Through this medium, an interpreter is able to provide proper names and words for which there are no standardized or equivalent signs. Also, fingerspelling is an essential tool for presenting precise English or Tagalog [...]
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Was My Cat Killed By the Vet’s Lack of Communication?
Mishka Zena Last week was one of the most difficult weeks in my life. I had to put down a two years old cat. Euthanasia is always an agonizing decision to make, but even worse when the pet is very young. Unlike previous times when I had to put down beloved elderly pets due to advanced cancer, [...]
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That’s how the current HDMI works with HDTV
Illustrator: Blog-alloon Reference from Banjo's World on “Equal Access: HDMI is Inaccessible” that is about HDMI that we, deaf and hard of hearing, need to have it go through to HDTV. Subtitle can be the problem with anybody with poor visual. Built-in Closed Caption from media box isn't help that much, but useful with Sling anyway. Click image [...]
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DHHIG Survey
Ed's Telecom Alert All.. Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing In Government, Inc (DHHIG) did a video communication survey and published results. Very interesting. DHHIG Survey DHHIG is a national non-profit organization which is an employee support group focusing on communication needs. The survey is done to gather information on the impact of video phones on federal employees or the im...
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Father and son alumni entrepreneurs recognized as top...
Inside Gallaudet Their work and the accomplishments of their company, Viable, Inc., have resulted in accolades and awards for John T.C. Yeh and Jason T. Yeh.
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CBS News - Yay: Couric-Palin Interview Transcripts
bill creswell CBSNewsonline doesn't caption their videos - but they provide transcripts along with their video. It seems like a reasonable way to provide accessibility. Thank you CBS! I receive a request for captioning the videos: I might get to that, but in the meantime: Palin/Couric On Economy: [link] On Foreign Policy: [link] Behind the scenes: [link] Posted in News...
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Wow, it's a 606 * !!
Adrian 4 ASL It's a 606 * !!Do you get it? If you got it, you know some ASL!
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SHOW ME DEAF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 - October 1,...
Show Me Deaf Community *** 2008 Public Service Announcement: ***For widest possible distribution:Release: October 1, 2008Contact: Paul Kiel, SMDIFF CoordinatorE-mail: paul@deafimages.tvPhone: Voice: 314-236-9048TTY/Fax: 314-869-6161VP: 314-664-8959 or pjkiel.myvp.tvSHOW ME DEAF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 - October 1, 2 and 3, 2009St. Louis, Missouri, October 1, 2008 - SMDIFF ha...
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NTID Sponsors National Art Competition
NTID News RIT/NTID has announced its third annual Digital Arts, Film and Animation Competition for high school students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Winners will receive cash prizes and all-expenses-paid trips to Rochester.
Higher Education Education Tech Wed, Oct 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Censorship in the Virtual Deaf World?!?
Teri Sentelle
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Greener Grass on the Vermont Side
DeafNation After meeting Austine School for the Deaf Principal Anne Potter, Williams Center Director Raymond Stevens, and Superintendent Robert Carter, I walked off the Brattleboro, Vermont campus confident that the futures of Deaf children rested in extremely good hands.
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Desma Hunt’s Diaries #3
The Rebuttal I have had a dreadful morning, simply dreadful. I was blow drying my hair and the power cut out. Talk about a bad hair day. It all started in the morning. I was in the shower and my middle son ran in and said,”There is a power cord in the laundry.” I was tired so I [...]
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Please Ask Your Hearing Kids with DHH Siblings...
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Dear All,Leeanne of Hands & Voices is preparing a study of hearing kids with DHH siblings. Please take five minutes, ask them these questions and either respond by leaving a comment or email the response to jodi@rallycaps.net You may find some answers that surprise you, or this may give you the opportunity to have a really fine heart to heart with your hearing chi...
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Deafblind International Conferences in September 2009 and...
We Can Do The organization Deaf Blind International is currently in the planning stages for two conferences within the next few years. The first of these will be The Deafblind International 7th European Conference 2009. The theme of this conference will be “Tides, waves and currents in research and action”, and it will be held September 22 to [...]
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Report from Seminar on Disaster Risk Reduction for Deaf...
We Can Do Deaf people, and people with disabilities, are often at high risk during natural disasters and other large-scale emergencies. A seminar on disaster risk reduction for people with disabilities was held in Pakistan last July 2008. A summary of the lectures and presentations are available on-line at: [link] Among other things, people may read a summary [...]
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RESOURCE: Deaf Peers’ Education Manual on Sexuality, HIV &...
We Can Do Research tells us that people with disabilities, and Deaf people, are at higher risk for HIV/AIDS than the general population. But many HIV/AIDS education programs exclude people with disabilities from opportunities to learn how to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. Sometimes this exclusion is deliberate: some program managers mistakenly assume that Deaf and disabled...
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Putting Financial Crisis In Perspective
Five String Guitar As the financial portion of the planet melts down, it becomes even more important to put things in perspective. Mass sums of monies tucked away in portfolios are reduced substantially on paper, and we all woke up this morning with "less".In the long run, we will be fine I suppose, we just need to tuck in our tails and hunker down a bit, ride this out for a while.Finan...
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Campaigning for deaf children at the Conservative party...
Campaigning for deaf children One of the ways a charity can punch above its weight at the party conferences is go to lots of fringe meeting and ask a question to the speakers at the end. It gets you noticed and gets you attention as a player in the game. It also means people know who you are afterwards, [...]
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Deaf Australian Student Sues Australian University
Jamie Berke (About.com) A deaf student in Australia, struggling with her courses, is suing Australia's LaTrobe University over what she claims are lack of interpreters/inadequate interpreters and poor quality notetakers. According to the...
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