Kevin McLeod - Five Questions You Must Ask
i711.com : Deaf News This Week When you go to a job interview, you fully expect to answer a lot of questions about yourself...
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RIT/NTID Educator Awarded International Honor
NTID News Jim DeCaro, director of the Postsecondary Education Network-International at NTID, recieved the 2008 Contribution to Society Award from Japan's Foundation for Encouragement of Social Contribution. He was one of only five non-Japanese recipients.
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Karina Chupina - A Change Wanted In Japan - Part 1
i711.com : Deaf News This Week Curious about Japan, the second most technologically advanced country in the world after...
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Chris Kaftan - A Keen Idea
i711.com : Deaf News This Week It took a trip to a museum to convince Catharine McNally that something needed to...
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Obama for People with Disabilities, Deaf People
ReunifyGally US President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden say the United States “should lead the world” in helping Deaf people and people with disabilities to “take full advantage of their talents and become independent, integrated members of society.” Obama has promised to make the United States a signatory to the UN Convention on [....
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Dangerous Decibels in Theaters
Jamie Berke (About.com) HHissues has posted an interesting article in the Hearing Research topic folder on the forum, "Dangerous Decibels? Are Movies Too Loud?" This is an article about how the loudness of...
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D-PAN featured on CNN
submit by: Sean D-PAN was featured on CNN. The segment aired 2 times on CNN, and 3 times on CNN international. The peice will air throughout the week too. It isn't captioned but we are working on one but wanted to share one of our proud moments with DeafRead viewers. Thank you, Sean Forbes co-founder/artist D-PAN: The Deaf Performing Artists Network www.d-pan.com
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D-PAN on CNN News
The Rosa Lee Show Sean Forbes, co-founder of D-PAN, notified me via email that CNN aired its interview with Sean about D-PAN via CNN and CNN international few times this week. Check out the link to the video: D-PAN ON CNN NEWS Kudos to everybody! -Rosa Lee
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Deaf Anthology # 121: "McDonald's"
Deaf Anthology Yesterday, I went to a McDonald's Drive-In and I gestured to the cashier that I am Deaf and wanted something to write my order on for a hamburger and she gave me a Braille menu, so I wonder if there is a Blind drivers out there on the road.Revised 11/17/08to get aThis is Smokey, stay tuned for the next episode of Deaf Anthology. Good night, Deaf America!
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Dear Barak Obama, Please Caption Your Videos
DeafMom Over on Twitter, I received a tweet from @lil-gruntlings alerting me to a video by Barak Obama that was not captioned. Did I want to help her get this changed, she wanted to know: I asked her to tell me more about it, as I wasn't familiar with the change.gov website and I was on the road. --- want to get www.change.gov to captio...
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The Rosa Lee Show at Indiana/Kentucky Cities
The Rosa Lee Show The Rosa Lee Show had its first mini-tour in the state of Indiana/Kentucky last week.  Some of you may know that Indiana is a state that holds dear to my heart.  It was where I spent most of my youth living as a student at Indiana School for the Deaf (ISD). It is also [...]
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Day 18
The Caretaker
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Positive Spins
Five String Guitar If one reads the national dailies that grace our doorsteps in the morning, one would assume we are in the depths of a recession, if not indeed a depression. Yet in this country, more cars were sold last month than in the October of one year earlier, when we were humming along.I went out yesterday to pick up some bobbles and what not, to spread some joy around the neig...
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Classroom acoustics for deaf children
Campaigning for deaf children One of the key issues for NDCS as part of our campaign to close the gap in educational achievement between deaf children and their hearing peers is the extent to which acoustics in the classroom acts as a barrier to learning. It's quite simple really. If most deaf children are now taught in mainstream schools, [...]
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Susan Elliott named Colorado's 2009 Teacher of the Year
Inside Gallaudet Elliott, a graduate of Gallaudet's Master's of Arts in Education program and veteran Board of Trustees member, will represent Colorado teachers as a presenter, ambassador, and liaison.
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SVRS at it again?????
valhallian.com I have been quite busy with travels and work lately which is why I had not written a new post in quite sometime.  However, I came across some news that made me set time aside to write a short post about this. I felt the need to do this to support the deaf people of [...]
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My First Year Anniversary
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Added Dotsub to the Captioned Video Search
bill creswell There are so many options now for captions, that there are so many duplications of effort. That was the reason I started working on the Captioned Video Search ( [link] I wasn't even checking DotSub, which has many also - So I've added Dotsub results to the search. (to catch up on what Captioned Video Search is about, try [...]
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In the Queue of my life, no 44 - (Part 4 of 7)
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Rikshospitalets goals for CI operations in 2008 will not be met. As of September 1st, Rikshospitalet has performed 25 CI operations on adults. - We will not be able to achieve the goal of 100 operations for 2008, Rikshospitalet says in a statement. The former health-minister Sylvia Brustad (labour party), ordered Health-South-East (Helse Sør-Øst) to perform 100 [......
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One of my pet peeves- "LOL"
The deaf boy in the world I was sitting here thinking about my encounters with few people and the reason why I am so annoyed with them. It comes down to one word... "LOL" I can't tell you how some people kept saying LOL after they make a comment even if I don't find the comment funny. I mean, LOL started out as the abbreviation for laughing out of loud for texting because the mobile companies...
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"I am tired of teachers who cannot...."
Jean Boutcher's Collection of Quotations Dr. George DetmoldDean of CASGallaudet University________________________I am tired of meeting teachers of the deaf who do not now how to sign and who cannot understand what their students are saying. If I were preparing to teach in a German school, I would want to be sure I know German!Dr. George Detmold*Dean of CASGannon (1981), 403__________________________________...
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5: What’s Up With HOVRS’ MVP?
The Countdown To The Resurrection After GoAmerica swallowed HOVRS and Verizon TRS, they did not stop as they went on their way to purchase two major interpreting agencies in Washington, DC area in an attempt to control the interpreters from working for other VRS companies. Yes, HOVRS bought Sign Language Associates (SLA) and Visual Language Interpreting (VLI).  To me, it is [...]
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Standing Up for ASL in Indiana!
Deaf Bilingual Coalition of Indiana DBC of Indiana held a rally at the Hear Indiana Education Conference in Indianapolis on November 14, 2008. The rain sure didn't dampen our spirits!
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Speech Deteriorating as Hearing Declines?
Jamie Berke (About.com) Recently I chatted with a hearing person whose hard of hearing sister is gradually losing her hearing. She commented that her sister's speech seems to be deteriorating as she loses...
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Another Location for Captioned Obama Videos
bill creswell Someone referred to my captioned video collection, and I discovered someone with a great job title. occupation: Transcriber industry: Educational Media company: Self-employed job description: Transcription and editing of audio/video media and course content for the Deaf community, and to provide access for non-native speakers of English to English content. She works m...
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