Hearing aid manufacturers
deafness and hearing aids If you are thinking about buying a hearing aid, it's good to do a bit of market research to find out what's available. After all, hearing aids are expensive items and you want to do everything you can to make sure you purchase the right one for you. When you visit a hearing aid vendor / [...]
Tech Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

2008 Coda Conference Rocked!
CodaDiva Having just returned home from a fabulous CODA conference held in Indy - I keep learning new things about myself each year. This year, DREAM IT - LIVE IT! Today is my birthday - so if you like to give me a gift - subscribe to my blog! See up in the right side with [...]
Culture Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Parliament: Deaf Education, No Official Statistics
Grumpy Old Deafies Deaf children's education or rather the standards, has been a subject that has been buried under the carpet by consecutive governments. Its a subject that plays like a broken record, and the same mistakes made decade after decade, with no-one actually listening. There was a question in parliament around educational attainment: Stewart Jackson (Whip, Whips; Peterbor...
Education Legal Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Yay! First 5000 visits!
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers Yay! My site reached 5000 visits! It's another milestone in my blogging stint. I promised myself that I will celebrate every time I reach 1000 visits. Actualy, its already 5,223.  So here I am again after 30 blog entries in almost four months! I thought I can never do this.  I know I am shallow but hey, this [...]
Language Culture Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Parliament: Regulation of Hearing Aid Dispensing
Grumpy Old Deafies It appears that the Hearing Aid Council is being abolished next year, and its work merged with the Health Professions Council. The Hearing Aid Council describes itself as: We are the Government body that regulates the private hearing aid market. To sell a hearing aid in the UK you must be registered with us and meet our standards of education, training and conduct. ...
Legal Culture Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Wireless Videophone Portable have a big CON. Why?
Illustrator: Blog-alloon Wireless Videophone portable has the huge negative I bring it up for everybody to understand the technology. First, I thought it's great that anyone could bring videophone portable at coffee cafe, hotel or airport terminal where they have Wi-Fi spot. Unfortunately, there is problem you cannot get it work. Why? Because almost every Wi-Fi spot are [...]
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IFHOH-- Day Two
Living The Questions We missed the first Plenary Session-- something I would regret for the next several days whenever people mentioned "that deaf man who flew around the world." His fantastic story inspired everyone who heard it. But I overslept, then we ran into traffic, and by the time we got to the Wall Center we wanted-- no-- NEEDED-- coffee. After all the previous walking around the...
Culture Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

DBC - Part 1
Jack's eyes Produced and Edited by Jack Barr [link]  
Culture Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

"BATTLE OF THE DEAF BLOGGERS"
Deaf Anthology Commentary: Who are we, are we going to set up a boxing ring at the next Deafread conference and give each bloggers boxing gloves. We have already got a few casualties, Joey Bauer for one.DBC does have a clear vision from the start, as long it has popular support, it will survive its infancy. Criticism seems to aim at its leaders, accusing them of being influence by t...
Art and Storytelling Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Browsing Through the De’Via Exhibition
NAD Conference [See post to watch Flash video]
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Deaf Community: Cultural Values and Double Standards
Mishka Zena I stood back, struck with amazement and saddened at the furor, hurt, and anger within the Deaf Community. Are we so different from each other that we truly cannot understand each other and come to full acceptance of everybody? First of all, I do not want to see anyone hurt, nor do I want anyone fired from [...]
Language Audism Education Tech Culture Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

We Are Indeed, Hands & Voices
A Deaf Mom Shares Her World Every year, it gets better. Beth Donofrio and I headed out to Breckenridge last Thursday for the annual Hands & Voices Leadership Workshop.  Beth is a close friend of mine as well as an Illinois Hands & Voices board member.  She's a mom of five kids, with lots of experience in assisting parents of deaf and [...]
Language Education Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Upcoming MTV episode featuring an ASL- CI user!
The ASL-Cochlear Implant Community Andrea Manning from MTV Press contacted us yesterday and informed us about this upcoming show, "True Life: I'm Deaf!", which will feature two different stories of two teenagers getting the Cochlear Implant. Here is a preview of what will be featured on MTV on July 20th, 2008 at 1pm ET/PT. Below is an excerpt from Manning's email that explains in detail wh...
Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

In DeafRead’s Defense.
Der Sankt Speaks... Good news for some and bad for others: after having this discussion with Joey and Patti, I have come to the conclusion that, for them, DeafRead will not be any “safer” if I leave. In light of all the great comments, even from those who disagree with me vehemently, I received last night in response [...]
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Town Hall Meeting @ Lubbock
Ed's Telecom Alert Folks, Two Special Events in Lubbock, TX Wed., July 30th 2008 Mr. Gatti's Pizza 5001 50th St. Lubbock, TX 79414 5 PM to 6 PM --- Sprint BlackBerry Sales Event Come and learn more about the hottest selling wireless pagers for the Deaf. Come and see the BlackBerry Curve, available in either black or red! ...
Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Advanced Bionics Complaint...and Letter RE: FDA Settlement
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Two months after my post FDA Seeks to Fine Cochlear Implant Company, a reader, Kimberly, posted the following comment:I had my first AB implant done on the right in August of 2005. It worked great for a few months, then I started "hearing" loud popping, sounds like paper crinkling and the power cutting in and out. The device was failing. In December 2006 I had my left...
Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Medical Student Losing Hearing
Jamie Berke (About.com) Pradip, a dental student has posted on the forum about what happened after he had surgery to try to fix a problem with otosclerosis. Instead, he became deaf in his...
Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Necessary of Deaf Power in Deaf Culture
Sojourner Here is a vlog from Darla Thompson - a dear friend of mine.
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DeafRead, the Deaf Blogosphere, and Ethics
Mr. Sandman “Witch hunt” is the term I'm hearing more and more over the last couple of days. At first, I discounted that– but the last few hours that I've spent catching up on DeafRead and the deaf blogosphere, the more convinced I am that certain people who have axes to grind have inflicted their grievances on [...]
Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Integrity? Ethics? HA!
Simply Saunière Barry Sewell and his followers talk repeatedly about the need for integrity. Well, remember how Karen Mayes said that she saw something about letters being sent to DE's and Barb DiGi's bosses on DBCFacts.com, but that info disappeared within a few hours? She was telling the truth.A friend sent me this e-mail that contained what was posted on DBCFacts.com Tuesday morni...
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International Federation of Hard of Hearing Congress 2008--...
Living The Questions This is just a quick recap of the IFHOH. (International Federation of Hard of Hearing) Congress in Vancouver, BC.Since I hate driving in Vancouver, and didn't want to mess with long lines over the border crossing during TWO Independence Day holidays, I took the train. The IFHOH began a day after Canadian Independence Day and ended a day after US Independence Day. The ...
Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Response to: Open Vlog to DBC Leaders
Tar2006's Weblog        
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Personal Post day.
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!I wanted to make another personal post today to my readers out there. It's one of those days I wanted to personally say something and hope it won't be misunderstood in any way possible.Lately, I'm kind of concerned about how deaf read has been acting lately. It seems like we've lost all the type of hype of the late RIDOR, who hasn't posted in a long tim...
Wed, Jul 16 2008 hide this blog

Beware of False Prophets!
Dr. DonG.'s Deafhood Discourses The whole situation at DeafRead has saddened me, as it has many of us.  Some people have said that the problems have been there before any specific individual.  True enough.  However, I have found some information about a certain person who is the true instigator of the current firestorm.  It is my hope that this [...]
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Rambling about anything and everything
Sudden Silence I spilled water all over my keyboard yesterday…augh!! (as Charlie Brown would say)  I was using a medium-ish mirror propped up between my desk and Dave’s to keep an eye out for people coming up behind me.  Every time the desks shifted, for whatever reason, the mirror would fall forward and knock over everything in [...]
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