Internet down at NAD YLC - new Blog coming soon
NAD YLC Blog The internet is down at NAD YLC so they are unable to create new posts on the NAD YLC Blog. In addition, they are not able to respond to emails. We apologize for this inconvenience. If you have an urgent message or question, please page the NAD YLC Director, Jennifer Yost Ortiz, at yostortiz@tmail.com. We will be [...]
Wed, Aug 09 2006 · hide this blog

WAMU 88.5FM Interview with Dr. I. King Jordan and Dr. Jane...
via link submit Dr. I. King Jordan and Dr. Jane Fernandes were interviewed on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU at American University. This is a lengthy interview that covers many topics.
Wed, Aug 09 2006 · hide this blog

Usher Syndrome
Jamie Berke (About.com) When I was in college, one of my best friends found out she had usher syndrome. I watched as she made a very painful adjustment in her life, coming to... [...]
Wed, Aug 09 2006 · hide this blog

YLC Loses 19 Campers During Survival Program
DeafDC.com The Hatrak Survival Program (HSP) is one of the oldest traditions of the NAD Youth Leadership Camp. It plunges four groups of campers into the central Oregon wilderness for five days, supervised only by two staff members per group who must remain silent and offer no help (other than dispensing prescribed medications and dealing with [...]
Wed, Aug 09 2006 · hide this blog

I liked this ASL video clip with special effects
Jared Evans This video is about a boy who woke up on Christmas morning and was all excited about his presents. One of the presents that he got was a motorbike which he took out for a ride.I liked how the video... [...]
Wed, Aug 09 2006 · hide this blog

What Role do Hearing Allies Have?
Random Thoughts and Musings DeafRead.com recently announced that hearing people could submit their blogs for publication. This got me thinking (probably for the millionth time) that we need to have a dialogue about what role hearing people play in our lives. They clearly play a huge one because so many of us have hearing people for parents, and also because we have yet to [...]
Tue, Aug 08 2006 · hide this blog

Arson, Dr. Balkany & Others
RidorLIVE About Arson at Gallaudet: Someone lit the fire in a trash can and toss it into the Judicial Affairs. Some people has been bombarding me with emails, hoping that the fire originated in Carl Pramuk’s office. I personally had some conflicts with Carl Pramuk in the past but I respect who he [...]
Tue, Aug 08 2006 · hide this blog

Wayne Betts Jr.'s impersonation of a guy who's oralistic
Ke5ter Heh, funny. I met him during Jr. NAD convention at Rochester, NY in 1995. He was a skinny guy with braces back then. Now, he’s a director who aspires to be the next Steven Spielberg. His movie production is at mosdeux.com. [...]
Tue, Aug 08 2006 · hide this blog

Kudos to a Deaf Professor
Alternative Solutions Center
Tue, Aug 08 2006 · hide this blog

Violencia Domestica Deaf
DeafDC.com Me llamo Juanita. No lastimarre. Oculto. I hide in shadow. Aceptar la verdad. It is true. Aun cuando no puedes oír, te costaigan hasta que lloras. Even though you can’t hear, they hit you until you cry. Y despues, ya no quieres protestar y no preguntas por qué. And later, you don?t argue and you don?t ask why. Si [...]
Tue, Aug 08 2006 · hide this blog

Quality of Deaf Ed Teachers
Jamie Berke (About.com) Found an interesting discussion on LiveJournal: What Makes a Good Quality Deaf Ed Teacher? While some of the comments did not fit the discussion topic, I thought it was... [...]
Tue, Aug 08 2006 · hide this blog

Back To The DHI Conference, Day One
C.A. Fanara This is where I'll start - back to Monday, July 31st - the first day of the Deaf History International Conference. The details that came through this conference are unbelievably important and definitely not trivial to begin with. Fortunately my notebook is full of these data, and I am going to give you what I've learned at the conference. Hopefully [...]
Mon, Aug 07 2006 · hide this blog

iPod with Closed Caption Support?
Sam Dunn Since Apple, Inc. make announcement by give a sneak peek on Mac OS X 10.5 know as ?Leopard?, there saying that new version on Quicktime under Accessibility that support Closed Caption (CC). Closed captioning QuickTime currently supports closed captioning by including a text track alongside audio and video content. But improved QuickTime support will automatically display the [...]
Mon, Aug 07 2006 · hide this blog

"We are almost there."
Marvin Miller (Laurent, SD) Our lawyer working with the funding group just told us today, "We are almost there." Let's hope so! Say your prayers so we can see the vision of building world's first fully integrated and accessible town become a reality soon.In meantime, we continue to work quietly and mostly from home. We've had pretty hot weather here last two weeks and [...]
Mon, Aug 07 2006 · hide this blog

About John Egbert
RidorLIVE Recently John Egbert got in touch with me and to request whether if I would like to read few chapters and sypnosis of his soon-to-be published novel, MINDFIELD. Egbert hails from Ham Lake, Minnesota about 20 minutes north of Minneapolis. Some of you may know John Egbert as the father of Stella and [...]
Mon, Aug 07 2006 · hide this blog

New way to see DeafRead's subscriptions
Tayler Mayer We’ve added a new menubar button on the top of DeafRead. Clicking on Blogs will display the subscription list. But that’s not all. Click on a blog and you’ll be brought to a page showing posts by that blog only. If you’re interested in reading posts by a particular blog, this will make it easy. [...]
Mon, Aug 07 2006 · hide this blog

Seeking more Deaf-Centered Blogs
Jared Evans Taking a buzz word from one of the awesome posts by Alternative Solutions Center, DeafRead.com is looking for more "Deaf-Centered" blogs. Tayler and I have decided that we will not be restricting DeafRead.com's subscriptions to blogs by HH/d/Deaf people only.... [...]
Mon, Aug 07 2006 · hide this blog

Scenes behind Deafhood concept?
Malita Theres several folks bringing up the issue on Deafhood. It wasnt really popular until the protests on JKF's presidential selection process. Actually, at first, JKF protest was began with not Deaf enough then it became a mistake after the news media exposed the reason behind the protest. So the message against JKF had been changed [...]
Mon, Aug 07 2006 · hide this blog

A message to Dr. Thomas Balkany of University of Miami
Jared Evans "We fully expect her to live a normal life once she goes back to Iraq," Dr. Balkany said. (article here) (another one here) Dr. Thomas, don't presume to tell us what constitutes a normal life for Deaf people. Let us choose how to live our [...]
Mon, Aug 07 2006 · hide this blog

There Is Leadership Crisis at Gallaudet
RidorLIVE Like, It Will Help Her! Several individuals emailed me the link to this article that talked about this particular deaf girl from Iraq who received the cochlear implants. This deaf girl was doing fine without having to hear the bombs and bullets whizzing her by. Now with the cochlear implants, I’m [...]
Mon, Aug 07 2006 · hide this blog

Pathological or Cultural?
Jamie Berke (About.com) In the deaf community, we often speak about the pathological point of view, compared to the cultural point of view. What is the difference?... [...]
Mon, Aug 07 2006 · hide this blog

2006 NAD Conference Comments
Joey Baer I attended 2006 NAD Conference in Palm Springs, CA last June/July.  I had an opportunity to ask some people to share their thoughts on 2006 NAD conference.   Note:  This video was posted earlier on my ”old website” but I am reposting this here on new vlog.  So if you have not seen this, enjoy!   www.joeybaer.com/video/nadcomments.mov [...]
Sun, Aug 06 2006 · hide this blog

A Camper's Life at YLC
NAD YLC Blog Josh Sechman learning how to cut wood. Lizzie Povilauskas doing the same thing. Jovanna Natale watching her partner Ronald Clark. Jeese Jones giving a workshop about diversity. Fascinated Emilia Nowalski. Maya Ariel and Barbara Spiecker decorating Mark Montalette. Writing notes on each other’s back. Sami Krieger working hard on a camp project. Our new camp project, so touching. Kessel trying to make [...]
Sun, Aug 06 2006 · hide this blog

Deaf School's future is in question
Deaf Ogre I just arrived from the party (yep, it’s that late). However I got a email with a link from my friend. Read on: GOODING ? Maybe it's the endless farmland and desert, which isolates the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind from the rest of Idaho, or maybe it's because ISDB students don?t communicate [...]
Sun, Aug 06 2006 · hide this blog

Arson at Gallaudet
RidorLIVE Last Saturday evening, I was alerted by a certain fellow that eight fire trucks has descended on Kendall Green in response to the fire at Ely Center.  It was confirmed that arson is what happened with the fire.  My sources indicated that someone lit the fire in a trash can and tossed the can into [...]
Sun, Aug 06 2006 · hide this blog