ASL Expo, Funny Stuff
RSGeo-007 Earlier Saturday, I went with Jamie out to the ASL Expo at the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro, MD. We arrived just before noon due to a previous engagement.I thought it was interesting that it was in arena near a horse stable. Usually, most expos like this are crowded, but this one wasn't as crowded. It looked more like a demo and social sort of event, more social...
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My Night of Accessible Theatre
SpeakUpLibrarian Me and Marsha with the theatre entrance seen in the backgroundLast weekend was my big night out in Chicago with friends I had made through my local hearing loss support group. Julie, Kitty, and I met that afternoon at our group leader Kim's home, and the three of us squeezed into the backseat for a wild drive downtown. Kim's husband is an experienced city driver and c...
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CAD President Richard Ray’s Sept 26,2008 ASL Celebration...
California Association of the Deaf Richard Ray Presentation for ASL Celebration Oh, what a beautiful day here!  It's a happy day that we are able to convene to truly celebrate our culture, our own ASL. ASL Celebration.  It is a wonderful feeling — that we are able to talk so freely — in our language.  It's a wonderful feeling when we are [...]
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Day 17
The Caretaker
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Quiet Sunday.
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone.Well, it's wind, cold, and in some places SNOW!! ugh. Winter has come back to torture us. But ahh, I'm just chilling in the hotel as I'm close to downtown DC to be ready for the job fair tomorrow. I wanted to be down in DC because, rush hour on the tube (subway) can be a pain in the fanny of getting from one place to another. So I'm ready to get to the...
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I am going to blog about my recent experience and I really...
I'm adopting a deaf child with Ushers, now wh I am going to blog about my recent experience and I really don't want everyone to point out the mistakes unless you have a solution.A friend of mine texted me that she was not feeling well and did not want to drive to PrimaCare alone. She is Deaf. I went with her and interpreted between the dr and her. They treated her for acute gastridus and sent her home. The ne...
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One wondered how the deaf could communicate despite missing...
Jim's DEEP Thoughts A NEWER PERSPECTIVE I realized that there are so many things that regular people can do to help people with disabilities.
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Special People (A warning).
At The Rim A huge row has broken out over the new film about disabled people called "Special People". It is about disabled people, but the row is that the British Board of Film censors has labeled it as a 12a rating as it contains "disability themes " For the first time ever, film goers are going to get "warnings" that films may contain disability issues, maybe even deaf ones,...
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Neuropsychological Assessment Conference Held November...
CPSO at Gallaudet University On November 14 and 15, Gallaudet University presented the conference “Making Connections: Neuropsychological Assessment and Applications with Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.” Hosted by the Department of Psychology, and coordinated by CPSO's conferences and events planner Sherry Duhon, the conference was created for the purpose of bringing together p...
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Pres. Obama waves I-Love-You Sign
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers This is the circulated photo of President-elect Obama waving an I-Love-You sign language to the crowd.
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Obama Campaign Reaches Out To Deaf Community!
-Selina^Wing- But Eisenhour understands what most people don't - that sometimes there are people on the other end of that line.The numbers - which give a pattern of electronic beeps and clicks - typically are discarded as faxes or computer modems. However, some connect to the homes and lives of people in the deaf community who communicate with a special text telephone called TTY.“T...
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March for Equality - Nov. 15
found in blank Marches are awesome on any day, but especially when you get to do it with other Deaf people. I think about 10 of us showed up, and the rest of you missed a great show because we got to march right behind the lead banners, ahead of 20,000 hearing-ass fools (er, allies). Deaf privilege rocks! Facebook [...]
Culture Sat, Nov 15 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf Seniors of America Hurt By Bank Failure
Jamie Berke (About.com) Not everything is on the internet. The November 2008 issue of SIGNews has as its cover story, an original article about how the failure of the Silver State Bank in...
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Day 16
The Caretaker Everybody was enthusiastically looking forward to dinner for one reason: Maine Lobster. Kurt went on a boat ride with Jon Connick in search for a lobster boat. There were no lobster boat in sight so they went to a local store and bought back 30 lobsters. As part of the Maine Lobster Dinner [...]
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Please Focus on Deaf Babies and Children in Schools
Bilingual for all Deaf Children MZ’s  Schizophrenic! Psychopathic! Where Does it End? Yes!, where does it end? Lately, we, the Deaf community seems to start in the direction towards focusing on Deaf Babies and Children in school to be recognized of their needs to be educated rather than learn how to do speech which seems not productive for Deaf people that the [...]
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Samsung Propel Ad - Make Yourself Heard
bill creswell Samsung Propel ad with Ozzy making himself understood by texting. more about "Samsung Propel Ad - Make Yourself Heard", posted with vodpod Posted in Captioned Video Tagged: Captioned Internet Video, Captioned TV Ad, Ozzy Osbourne, Samsung
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Can’t Hear, But Can Party: ALDAcon, 2008 ~
The Ear of My Heart LaRonda joins the costume fun at the 20th Anniversary of the ALDAcon in Chicago, 2008. In this brief clip, she points out that even though deafened people can't hear, they still know how to party and have fun in large crowds. (Transcript below) (2:40 Mins.) Hosted by: Videoserver.us For the YouTube version, click here. Transcript: LaRonda: [...]
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Why We Should Email Obama!
ReunifyGally YES, this email-writing campaign is for DEAF people too! This quick power point program explains how and why Deaf people and also people with disabilities from across the United States and around the world should EMAIL OBAMA! If you have any trouble with this slide show, then most of the text is also [...]
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Obama Nov 15 Weekly Address - Captioned
bill creswell more about "Obama Nov 15 Weekly Address - Captioned", posted with vodpod Posted in Uncategorized
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Barack Obama's Video Message
Finding my identity... I guess Barack Obama, our President-Elect is now a vlogger! But... I can't find a captioned version of this... I guess we'd have to wait for the captioned radio, right? Ha ha. *wry chuckle*A link to his video is here: [link] - I see it's also available on AOL, Yahoo, and MSN. But do you want to bet a dollar that NONE of these have captions?And I thought that this wa...
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Goodbye Studio 28
bill creswell Saying Goodbye to Studio 28 Ahh, the memories. Studio 28 has been the location of many dates that I have had with my girlfriend, who became my wife. Studio 28 has been a leader in a lot of ways for theatres across the country. The first 20 screen multiplex (in the world?) in 1988. The first MoPix installation [...]
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Re-defining Deaf
Ke5ter Ryan Commerson and Wayne Betts Jr made a short movie - link here. It's a cool movie. Basically, they're trying to change the misconception about deaf people being dumb because in the past, the word, deaf, was always associated with dumb and that hearing loss had to be fixed. They were tired of [...]
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Deaf girl kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf narrates her ordeal
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers Although this kidnapping incident reportedly led by the infamous Filipino bandit group, the Abu Sayyaf of the Al Qaeda network happened more than two years ago, this is as timely as the latest news headline. What's significant in this news is that a deaf person was the victim. Nineteen year old deaf Grace Gonzales, daughter of [...]
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Cuttlefish Sign Language?
submit by: Ken Rose Skip down to Saydrah's post. A student of ASL noticed in an aquarium that cuttlefish greeted each other with a certain configuration of tentacles. The first evidence of complex signs being used in any species other than humans naturally. Cephalopods (squids, octopuses and cuttlefish) are by far the most intelligent invertebrates. They communicate with each oth...
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Another tune-up! :)
SURROUND SOUND I went to Vanderbilt today for another "tune-up", as I call them. Susan asked if I wanted to do both ears again and I told her that I thought we really needed to as my "good" ear was starting to sound flat. It's amazing that that little bit of sound that I had coming in with my new ear was enough to change the entire balance. She adjusted the good ear until we had it ...
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