Being Bilateral
Sudden Silence It dawned on me in the past few days what a huge, tremendous difference it is to truly be bilateral.  The change in the way things sound is absolutely enormous.  It is the difference between just hearing sounds or noises when someone talks, and actually understanding what they are saying.  Sound completely changes. It’s not a [...]
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Deafhood (Timelines)
At The Rim A deaf story, if culture is to have a recorded history why not start it now ? If you want to add ASL or BSL access, please feel free.....
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My Son, The Football Player
A Deaf Mom Shares Her World Early last year, my oldest son David, a sophomore in high school, announced that he wanted to play football. Inwardly, I cringed. Football is not a sport that I'm fond of. At least not anymore. I used to love watching football games with the hubby years ago. For several years, [...]
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Precautions Urged After Laptop Stolen
NTID News Personal information was on a laptop computer stolen from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf on August 25. The information was encrypted, but included names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of 12,700 individuals who have applied to NTID since 1968.
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Hard of Hearing Person Frustrated by Captions
Jamie Berke (About.com) 10Walt posted on the forum: I am HOH and wear hearing aids. When watching TV I turn closed captions on with the thought that they would help catch the words I...
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Music Videos (Closed Captioned)
Where's Maisha? Like I said in the previous email, I really like music. It's difficult to find music videos with closed captioned nowdays. Time consuming has been removed by the advance of technology to add closed captions or subtitles on it. Youtube rated the worst place to find music videos with closed captions. However, Google Video has expanded its potential to add closed cap...
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Job Interview Issue
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Wyoming AIDS Walk, 2008
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Jamie Pond and I walked in the Wyoming AIDS Walk on April 19, 2008 to raise awareness about the problem of the Deaf HIV/AIDS epidemic. Fellow marchers were friendly and the weather was sunny and clear. We invite everyone to march in their local AIDS walks with signs and information to raise awareness of Deaf issues until the CDC and national funding agencies recogni...
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AIDS 2008, Opening Ceremony, Sunday August 7
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Between August 7 and August 14, I was in beautiful Mexico City with 25,000 other people for the AIDS 2008 conference. In the next couple of days I will be posting on the events of the week, from the colorful dancers of the opening ceremonies on Sunday to the great outreach program led by Donald Pilling of CSSQ on Thursday evening. The opening ceremony was held at a ...
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AIDS 2008, Monday August 8
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities On Monday, I presented a paper on Deaf HIV infection rates in the United States. Only the state of Maryland keeps any figures on infection rates and those point to an epidemic being ignored by the larger public health authorities in the US including the Centers for Disease Control (the CDC). Deaf people consistently test HIV+ at about double the rate for hearing peo...
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More Sample of Filipino Sign Language
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers After receiving sizeable interest on my recent blog about Filipino Sign Language, I became more eager to show you one more.
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The clarification of the previous post
The deaf boy in the world I was reading through the comments that people left on my blog. I'll have to say that most people are turned off by the word that I decided to use "rut." I know that the way I used the word make my message come off as harsh. That's the way I use to appeal to people's emotions about MY personal perspective.I basically need to have my processors on everyday because I he...
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Sorry, Apologe...
Deaf Flower Sorry but.... or Sorry if....
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Welcome Fall 2008
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!Happy Fall 2008! For some of you, you've just entered back into school and colleges. For others, we're all busy with everything else going on. It's a time when we're getting out on the holiday and taking drives through the countryside, seeing the trees begin to shed the wonderful green leaf to *star bursting* colors. It won't be long before they all st...
Higher Education Culture Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Doctors with a Hot Bedside Manner!
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear I'm dealing with two kids, my Dad and a husband in heat, while trying to build an empire. I'm a little overwhelmed, especially because I haven't been blogging. Blogging helps me maintain my sanity, what's left of it.If I've been in limbo the past year and a half, now, I'm at the starting gate ready to bust out to take on the first lap (obviously I'd be running the Pre...
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Deafhood Discoursed
At The Rim I'd like to explain what, I feel is basically the issue with 'Understanding Deaf Culture' i.e. 'Deafhood' Via Paddy Ladd.Basically he used a format, a terminology, and a language, that is difficult for most deaf to follow. Whilst we appreciate a fully signed ASL or BSL version is a massive undertaking, the paragraph I highlighted on my vblog was about making things s...
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Finding Captioned Movie Trailers from Movie Sites
bill creswell This may be only for the more technical of you. This solution requires Firefox, the Greasemonkey add on, and “the movie dude” Greasemonkey script. Starting with Firefox, add the greasemonkey add-on by going to the Greasemonkey add on and clicking install. This will require restarting Firefox. Then go to this page, and install the movie dude user script [....
Media Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

????? ?? ????? ???? ?? ???????...
Where's Maisha? I've canceled my vacation trip this weekend to catch up on my website projects. I've worked on them and took other half day off watching TV all day. Owning a small business always have one more hurdle to jump over, and another one more by tomorrow. Since it has grown, I'm felling behind because I'm the only one working on them. And I'm trying my best to balance my...
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New Study Shown That The Use of Hearing Aids Could...
RLMDEAF MSNBC's Kathleen Doheny reported the new scientific findings that the use of hearing aids could create some body function problems, ex. clogged ear canals. The basic function of ear wax is to lubricate the ear itself and keep anything out of ordinary. The title of MSNBC article is "Leave That Ear Wax Alone". Its recommendation is the regular visit to the ENT (Ear, No...
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DBC: Take a Stand for ASL
Deaf Bilingual Coalition The Deaf Bilingual Coalition joins the World Federation of the Deaf in standing up for Human Rights Through Sign Languages...
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Take Action on Ridor and Martin Ritchie and Oxygen-TV!
RLMDEAF According to Ridor's "Countdown to Resurrection" blog, the Oxygen TV's "Janice Dickerson Modeling Agency" hired an unqualified ASL interpreter for Martin Ritchie, the deaf reality TVcontestant,. The non-certified ASL interpreter was Jerry Ferris, CODA himself.Jerry Ferris's pre-reality TV occupation was the art gallery director somewhere in Southern California. Ridor ...
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Gangsta Sorenson Interpreter
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Traitor - Captioned Trailer
bill creswell When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation [...]
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Californians for ASL Celebration Committee invites you to...
California Association of the Deaf Click on Photo for Video ! Click on Photo for ASL Celebration event!
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Alert.. MAJOR ALERT.. for NTID ALUMNI!!!
The Deaf Sherlock G'day everyone!ALERT.. MAJOR ALERT.. MAJOR ALERT!!Every NTID ALUMNI SHOULD BE READING THIS POST TODAY!! Because it concerns you very much!!!I got this alert from a friend of mine in E-mail recently.First.. read this quickly before Democrat and Chronicle move it again: [link] for those who don't want to read it.. here's the synopsis of it:A Computer Laptop was STOLEN ...
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