Leah Katz-Hernandez: How to Canvass
The Deaf Perspective I explain about canvassing. What's it really like? Find out by watching the Vlog! Transcript coming soonI'm REALLY sorry... midterms are coming up and I got so many major projects for school. I'll add in the transcript later! Meanwhile, enjoy the ASL :-)
Media Higher Education Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Who is Laughing Now?
The Rebuttal Our disability discrimination laws are a laughing stock. They have to be the most ridiculous and toothless laws that exist anywhere in a comparable country in the Western World. The residents of an Australian suburb that took their Council to court will testify to that. This is a tragic tale of a group of [...]
Legal Culture Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

See! I told you, my last few vlogs has merits about NAD’s...
Southside7's Weblog Good evening everyone. My suspicous is now confirmed! Recall several of my vlogs discussing about NAD and their victory with 3 plainiffs against Washington Redskins to get captions in their stadium. I got email today and I have copied and pasted. Read below and decide for yourself. I cannot tell you who [...]
Media Tech Legal Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Cueing vs. Cue Reading
We Cue! A recent comment to one my earlier posts made me stop and consider the differences in learning to Cue vs. learning to Cue Read and consequently allowed me to contemplate on one of my own personal dilemmas. Tasha left a comment stating that she was relieved to learn that a hearing individual did not always [...]
Education Tech Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Louisiana School for the Deaf Closes
Jamie Berke (About.com) The string of sex assaults at the Louisiana School for the Deaf finally got to be too much for the state superintendent of education in Louisiana. (The most recent case...
Media Education Legal Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Something to Look Forward to: An Evening of Accessible...
SpeakUpLibrarian I'm so excited! My new friend Julie and I are going to a closed captioned theatre performance of Eurydice at Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago next month. I've been a theatre buff all my life. My parents took me to community theatre productions when I was a kid. Linda, my best friend from library school, and I once went to Stratford, Canada for their Shakespeare Festiv...
Media Art and Storytelling Tech Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Provost Follow-up
Glenn's Story Book Glenn wrote:I had a follow-up meeting with the provost today at 1:00. I get there on time and who do I see but the CART person who was moved out of my ADMG 310 class. Making small talk isn't really an option, but I did tell her that the teacher couldn't understand one of the transcripts she created. She looked a little embarrased about that. She should be ashamed ...
Higher Education Audism Tech Legal Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Walls
DeafDC.com Have you read Paul Schwartzman's recent article in the Washington Post (entitled “Gallaudet’s New Aesthetic Openness”)?  If not, please do take a look-it's pretty good.  Schwartzman's focus is on Gallaudet University's drive to develop a number of adjacent properties that it owns along Sixth Street using an architectural design conc...
Media Higher Education Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

A Blast from the Past
The Rebuttal In the late 1990s I worked at VSDC which is now known as Deaf Children Australia. January of each year was generally a slow time with children being away on holiday. We used the time to tidy up minor administrative issues and set ourselves up for the New Year. One January my manager sentme [...]
Education Culture Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

When an Idea Becomes a Reality: Live*Love*Hear
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Design created by Rachel ChaikofKaren Feeser posted the following comment on the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Circle on October 1, 2007, right in the middle of our CI Awareness Campaign Discussions:I was thinking, we have all of these walks, runs, fundraiser ideasto raise awareness to breast cancer, leukemia, autism, muscular dystrophy....etc...why can we not have somet...
Tech Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

What’s up with Deaf Hope?
Ella's Flashlight DeafHopeFollowUp.mov (5:23 minutes) this video was made several days after my latest post and before the Deaf Hope Tea Party. rough translation: After posting the open letter to Deaf Hope, I went to the Deaf Hope website and clicked on the email links to the Board members and the CEO and left messages there. Waited a few days. [...]
Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

City of Embers Captioned Trailer
bill creswell For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights–underground. Built as a refuge for humanity and powered by a massive generator, this City will only sustain for 200 years. Now Ember is falling into darkness as the generator fails. Despite growing concern for the future of [...]
Media Tech Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

DDW back in the USA!
Discovering Deaf Worlds We made it home! After a year of discovering and documenting deaf worlds in eight countries, we are now back in Rochester, NY. Things that once seemed so familiar, like using tap water to brush our teeth or flushing toilet paper down the pipes instead of in a garbage bin, seem so unfamiliar now. Reality TV, yards, and paved roads are things we haven't seen in a lon...
Culture Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Screened Genes for All ?
At The Rim The breakthrough of ID'ing hereditary illnesses gathers apace. The deaf tried to oppose it via Clause 14 of the UK embryology Bill via IVF. One doubts they have the success, despite claiming they had deafness 'downgraded' from a 'serious' disability, to a 'norm', It didn't however oppose OTHER disabilities getting the red flag waved at them. Without unity of deaf/...
Audism Tech Legal Culture Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Is the Time For NAD To Offer Free Membership?
RLMDEAF Is the time for the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) to offer the basic free membership for the purpose of statistical numbers to show our political muscle to the elected officeholders and corporations and donors?What do you really think of this one?ASLize yours,Robert L. Mason (RLM)RLMDEAF blog
Culture Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

NAD's Disastrous Protest V. NFB protest
RLMDEAF Many of us already knew about the NAD's disastrous protest against the "Tropic Thunder" film last summer 2008. NAD doesn't protest soley against "Tropic Thunder" for endless mockery against disabled people in general. NAD went along with other disabled groups' protest against that film.What about you think about the National Federation of the Blind's latest protest ag...
Media Legal Culture Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

How Come the NAD Didn't Televise BB's 80th Birthday Bash...
RLMDEAF How come didn't the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) televise the special events like Bernard Bragg's 80th Birthday Bash and "ASL Idol" from the NAD Conference 2008 via webcasts?That would be an excellent opportunity for the National Association of the Deaf to do the nationwide membership recruitment tools and exposure for showing its own prestige and presence t...
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New Children's Book: My Heart Glow by Emily Arnold McCully
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and the Birth of American Sign Language (2008) by Emily Arnold McCully Reading level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover: 40 pages Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children Alice Cogswell was a bright and curious child and a quick learner. She also couldn't hear. And, unfortunately, in the early nineteenth century in America, there was ...
Media Art and Storytelling Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

New in October Children's Book: Signs of Jays by Linda...
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature Signs of Jays (October 2008) by Linda Kurtz Kingsley Publisher: Jason & Nordic Publishers ISBN-13: 9780944727225 Reading Age: 4 to 9 32pp Peter and his mother rescued two abandoned jays. Caring for the baby birds became a project for Pete, Mike, who was deaf, and for Pete’s mother’s hearing impaired class students. Just as the children in the hearing impaired gr...
Media Art and Storytelling Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

New Book for Adolescents: From A to Zulinski by Deb Piper
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature From A to Zulinski (May 2008) by Deb Piper Reading level: Ages 9-12 Publisher: Royal Fireworks Publishing Company This is the third volume in the chronicles of the irrepressible Jake's schooling. We first met him in Jake's the Name, Sixth Grade's the Game and followed by his exploits in Those Sevy Blues. Jake is deaf and has relied on an interpreter to sign the spok...
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Clarification on LD Charges for New Ten Digit Phone Numbers
Ed's Telecom Alert All.. Based on feedback from quite a few of you, I think the long distance charges for the new ten digit phone numbers are confusing. First of all the ten-digit phone numbers you get from a VRS providers are real numbers - not proxy and not 800/866). These "real" numbers use regional-based area codes like 281 (Houston, [...]
Tech Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Status update IV - early autumn 2008 - part 4 of 5
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Everyday life - restlessness I'm more stressed and restless. The feeling of social isolation is stronger than ever, and I'm more sad. It's not depression, because I am able to initiate things and engage in activities that are good to me. The positive experiences about my body's reactions to physical exercises this summer came at a [...]
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Reclaiming The Deaf Term: HEARING, MOTHER FATHER DEAF
Random Thoughts and Musings I’ve resisted the term CODA from the beginning, which is unlike me. I’m big on allowing members of a group to define their own identity and not to define them when I am not a member of the group. But the term that Americans have gleefully adopted to define those who are hearing with Deaf parents has always been jarring and wrong on some fundamental level for me. The...
Media Language Culture Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

2009 Academic Bowl Registration A Big Success
CPSO at Gallaudet University Team registration for the 2009 Academic Bowl, which took place on October 2, recorded almost 100 schools from across the United States. The deadline to register your school is October 17, 2008.  For more information, please go to the official Academic Bowl website.
Education Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Support center for the deaf set up in Yamagata Prefecture
Deaf Japan News A central center that provides deaf persons with counseling service through sign language or note taking, called the "Prefectural Information Support Center for the Deaf," opened in the Prefecture Branch Shirakawa public office, Yamagata City, October 1, 2008.It is the first facility in the Yamagata Prefecture which offers various services to the deaf persons. Accor...
Language Education Tue, Oct 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post