Celebrating Neurological Devastation Week
All The Young Dudes In honour of RNID's erudite campaign to celebrate their astute awareness program, World Without Sound, The Dude has worked his fingers to the bone to ensure that he can contribute to the campaign. Much thanks to GOD, and Joe losing his cool, for bringing this neglected campaign to my attention. For the first time ever, in [...]
Audism Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

BBC Vision Celebrates 100% Subtitling
Grumpy Old Deafies The BBC says it has now reached a 100% subtitling target in respect of television: BBC Vision has confirmed that it has reached its target of subtitling 100% of programs on its main channels - BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, CBeebies, CBBC and BBC News. Deaf and hard of hearing people will now be able to fully enjoy the complete range of BBC television program...
Media Tech Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

FCC requires your videophone to call any VRS
Open the Directory! For some time, the Sorenson VP-100 videophone would not allow you to make VRS calls through any other VRS company. FCC passed a mandate requiring interoperability a few years ago. You may already know this. However, I had an online conversation with a friend who is young, tech-savvy and knowledgeable about [...]
Education Tech Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Deaf Anthology #57: "G'Day From Down Under"
Deaf Anthology Joan: "John, found your travelogues."John: "I was a travel editor of the Silent News before pursuing a career as a screenwriter."Jason and Jeffrey: "Would you read it to us tonight at bedtime?"John: "Mates, will also show you guys some souvenirs."It's eighteen hours flight from Milwaukee, Queensland, Australia. I obtained my U.S. Passport from the local post office, ...
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Perfecting the art of being deaf
gwallgofi Reading this The Sickness of Deaf Awareness Week: Imagine A World Without Sound at Grumpy Old Deafies...I started to comment...but it became a blog post and so is trackbacked to the site as a comment instead. ======== Imagine a world of silence? Wonderful! It's so peaceful and I don't have to listen to the wife's nagging anymore! Nor do [...]
Audism Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Interlude: Hawk Relay’s My Mother Rocks!
The Countdown To The Resurrection Last year, I had the pleasure of serving as one of the judges to pick the winners of Hawk Relay's ‘My Mother Rocks!' vlog contest. Because of the success with the inaugural contest, Hawk Relay has sponsored the 2nd annual of this contest for 3 categories: High school, middle school and elementary [...]
Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Should we set up the International Deaf Awareness?
The Rogue's blog One person, uhurudeaf,  asked me about Deaf Awareness.  I am wondering if we can raise the International Deaf Awareness and  can educate the people to understand the Deaf Culture. We need to end the “Audism” as soon as possible throughout the world.  We need to create as a one team with different kind of deaf community from [...]
Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

ooVoo--A Great Way to Communicate
Karen Have I told you about ooVoo lately? I don't work for the company and there's no financial incentive for me to promote this, but I'm going to tell you about ooVoo because it's an amazing tool for communication over the internet. I first used ooVoo when I participated in "My ooVoo Chat" back in February of this year. A short video featuring the conversati...
Media Language Tech Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Hearing Aid Day!
CD's Ear Blog Got the new Naida hearing aid today. Everything does sound a bit more quiet than usual, but I am hearing. Everything sounds different as well, more lower pitched and such. Already mom says I sound different when I talk, not as high pitched. Will see the audie again on Monday, make sure everything's working ok, and he'll make more adjustments as necessary too. Will pr...
Tech Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

British Deaf Week celebrates the hearing aid.
At The Rim More positive and informative blogs this week, in contrast to one or rabid UK bloggers who seem determined to put the whole concept down, and attack the Deaf Awareness concept, while doing nil themselves..... Deaf Awareness Week (May 5-11 2008)The last half-century has seen massive advances in all things technological, with no change more pronounced than that made by ...
Tech Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Film: Experience of Tinnitus, from Channel 4's The Shooting...
Grumpy Old Deafies The Shooting Party is a series (Sunday evenings) on Channel 4 which follows nine disabled directors. Two of the participants are deaf: Sam Dore is 30, profoundly deaf and uses BSL. He has worked in television on Channel 4's VEE-TV, and as a writer/director since 1999 with several short films to his name.He has also worked as a presenter and actor. His short film for...
Media Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Nightmare Invasion
Deaf Cinematic FilmBlog Click To Play BE WARNED: You are at risk of experiencing unruly emotions if you choose to click "play" to watch this short film. Your emotions will come alive and take your sensibilities on a ride that includes emotional spins, twists and turns. Parents: Please preview the film before you allow your children watch it.This surreal film carries a message a...
Audism Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Deaf-Week UK (The RNID go-it-alone).
At The Rim
Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Mainstreaming is a Place, Not a Success
DeafMom Although I'm late for "Blogging Against Disabilism" day, I wanted to touch on a subject that Terri Mauro blogged about recently: The Myth of the Magical Mainstream. Like Terri, I live in a district with a very strong inclusion program in the schools. For some kids, especially deaf and hard of hearing kids, inclusion can sometimes mean isolati...
Education Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

The Sickness of Deaf Awareness Week: Imagine A World...
Grumpy Old Deafies Its Deaf Awareness Week, and the RNID has excelled itself at being the most patronising and paternalistic deaf organisation on planet earth. Before I go on, its no secret that I have my reservations about Deaf Awareness Week, but that is the subject of another blog post. However, I would imagine the aim of such a week was supposed to be about deaf people - in whatev...
Audism Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

DeafRead All-Time Average Visits
DeafRead Human Editor Average Visit # of Posts Blog Name 1. 865.2727 22 Olson Brothers 2. 667.0833 12 NAD President 3. 590.1765 68 Amy Cohen Efron 4. 589.3810 21 Deaf Bilingual Coalition 5. 576.7523 109 Joey's ASL Vlog 6. 561.4375 32 Ella's Flashlight 7. 540.0000 12 ME-DEAF-YES 8. 529.1356 59 Jack's eyes 9. 501.2857 7 Deaf World Champ 10. 494.3333 3 ...
Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Learn with Sprint Interactive Website
Sprint Relay Blogs and Vlogs Want to see all the products Sprint Relay has to offer? Do you want to see how to add or use the service? Go to www.sprintrelay.com/learn to take the online training.
Language Tech Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Sprint Relay announces SprintIP for Facebook
Sprint Relay Blogs and Vlogs Sprint Relay came out with a new service available for Facebook users. SprintIP for Facebook is the first ever relay service through Facebook! You and friends can use the easy to use SprintIP application on Facebook. ‘GA' is not required. Espanol relay available. Macintosh compatible. FREE application download! Call anywhere right from Facebook with a few ...
Language Tech Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Northern Ireland Assembly: The Bamford Review & Deaf People
Grumpy Old Deafies The Northern Ireland Assembly recently had a generic debate on health services. Within this debate it made mention of a review of deaf mental health services in Northern Ireland: Michael McGimpsey (UUP) The Bamford Review did not examine needs in respect of the mental health and well-being of people who are blind or partially sighted; however, it did examine those n...
Legal Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Parliament: Health Service Funding & Provision for Deaf...
Grumpy Old Deafies Sandra Gidley (Shadow Minister, Health; Romsey, Liberal Democrat) To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much funding was provided for support services for deaf people in each region in each of the last five years; (2) what steps he is taking to improve health services for deaf people. Ivan Lewis (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Bury...
Tech Legal Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Dear Medical Professionals...
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Placing your child in the hands of other people and having to trust these people with your child is the most difficult thing for a mother. When life requires that you ask for the help and support of persons outside of the family, you suddenly find yourself in an extremely vulnerable position. Finding professionals willing to offer all of their efforts and competencies...
Media Education Tech Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

SATIRE: 2 Songs - FUNDRAISING MACHINE & GIMME, GIMME, GIMME
All The Young Dudes FUNDRAISING MACHINE  [Original lyrics are published at the end of this post] Gold - we put ours in Swiss Banks In account number 8-4-7-3 Ah ha ha - Deafies can be pretty lucrative We pretend that it's fun And don't mind if they work For us cleaning our rubbish So as long as hearies stay at number one Ooh oo oo ooh Fundraising Machine [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

HBO - Hear and Now Trailer - Subtitled
bill creswell Hear and NowA deeply personal memoir by Emmy® winner Irene Taylor Brodsky, HEAR AND NOW chronicles her deaf parents' decision to undergo risky cochlear implant surgery, following their touching journey from a comfortable marriage of silence into a new, complex and challenging world of sound. Winner of an Audience Award at last year's Sundance Film [...]
Media Language Art and Storytelling Tech Culture Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

Evening
Tales from a CI Gal I woke up last night having the strangest experience.......My husband was just laying there touching my cochlear implants. Not touching my face, telling me how nice I look sleeping. Not my hair and moving it out of my face. My implants!Went back to sleep and about an hour later, I woke up again to him touching my cochlear implants. I said that is it!!! I sat up and sc...
Tech Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog

At last some good news about CI's.
At The Rim Ruth Miller who was profoundly deaf by age 18 months now has two Cochlear Implants. She now has 95 percent understanding of the spoken word without cues. Some information from the acquired and deafned area charity the British NADP, we've heard the negative cultural slant, now let's hear from the other side for some balance, and some advantages of the CI to those that...
Language Tech Thu, May 08 2008 · hide this blog