NAD Partners with IRS - Four New ASL PSAs on the Economic...
submit by: NAD The NAD is partnering with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to make sure important information reaches the deaf community. The IRS has produced four new public service announcement videos and a short 1040-A instructional video in ASL with open captions and voice over.
Media Tech Legal Wed, Oct 15 2008 · 1 minute ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

All Deaf Children Should Get Cochlear Implants
Mishka Zena “This is not about tweaking the genes of a hearing embryo, a technical impossibility. It’s about laying two potential children in embryonic form side by side and affording more right to life to the hearing one by making it illegal to issue preference to the deaf one … this is not about creating a hearing [...]
Tech Legal Culture Wed, Oct 15 2008 · 48 minutes ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

SprintIP - Get Voice calls on AIM
Sprint Relay Blogs and Vlogs Sprint Relay is proud of it's IP-relay application which allows you to make calls on AOL Instant Messaging. Add “SprintIP” as your buddy name on AIM and start making a call. If you wish to get calls on AIM from voice callers, type “Register”, when you open the SprintIP buddy name and you will be all [...]
Media Language Tech Wed, Oct 15 2008 · 3 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Relax, Rest, and then HELLO DC!
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!!WOW! What a trip. I still get stopped and chat up a storm when there's a few people that recognize me in the NTID Focus Magazine of a picture that was taking during the Reunion in the NTID Theater. My friends that were sitting with me were: Brantley Hinshaw (looking at someone), Nicky Belfiglio and I are watching the stage action, and Bob Wilson is ...
Media Higher Education Culture Wed, Oct 15 2008 · 4 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Blog Action Day–Taking Action to Make a Difference
A Deaf Mom Shares Her World The day is here:  Blog Action Day.  Today, over 10,000 blogs will spotlight the issue of poverty and raise funds to make a difference.  Kudos to Easton Ellsworth and the team behind Blog Action Day. I thought long and hard about what I wanted to blog about today.  My kids are deaf and hard of hearing and [...]
Language Education Tech Culture Wed, Oct 15 2008 · 7 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

05.10.01 - Meeting the First Deaf Author
The Deaf Child: A Mythology 55th clip. Title: Meeting the First Deaf Author. 5:35 minutes long. Total: 5:04:37 hours. A couple of milestones here. This clip denotes that this had passed the 5 hours long. And the first post with a SIGNED deaf history commentary here. Thanks to my dear friend, Tayler, due to the changes in [...]
Language Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, Oct 15 2008 · 8 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Cheap & Deaf Friendly Fire Detector
DeafJoke.tv Cheap & Deaf Friendly Fire Detector (Jiffy Pop Brand) All this time, we wasted our money on fire detectors that we couldn't hear, and this would be much more deaf-friendly!! Will you buy it? Why? Why not? Submitted by Julia Tags: Cheap, deaf, Detector, Fire, Friendly, jiffy-pop, popcorn
Art and Storytelling Wed, Oct 15 2008 · 8 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Telephony campaign progresses
I look so I can hear.... TAG is holding a reception for MPs tonight at the House of Commons to showcase the newest telephone technology available for deaf people. See the BBC News item for further details. I'll be reporting back!
Tech Culture Wed, Oct 15 2008 · 10 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

UK deaf in Phone Lobby
At The Rim Deaf campaigners fighting for equal access to the telephone are lobbying MPs at a reception in Parliament. Consortium group TAG said deaf people were being held back in their jobs and lives because phone technology was no longer easily available or affordable. Chairman Ruth Myers said it was vital services keep pace with technology. Deaf people can communicate usin...
Tech Legal Culture Wed, Oct 15 2008 · 10 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Spam to the emergency text messages system for the deaf in...
Deaf Japan News Deaf residents in Shiga Prefecture, near Kyoto and Osaka, use the telephone number, 1-1-0, to send a text message via mobile telephone to the Shiga Prefectural Police Department for help or emergency. It introduced the emergency text message system for the first time in Japan in January, 1999.The Communication Order Division of the Police Department in charge of the s...
Tech Tue, Oct 14 2008 · 15 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Job Fair Promotes Networking and Awareness
NTID News Hundreds of RIT/NTID students attended today's Job Fair, where representatives from more than 40 companies and government agencies asked and answered questions about career opportunities. The fair was also meant to be an educational experience for employers to learn the best ways to accommodate an employee who has hearing loss.
Higher Education Tue, Oct 14 2008 · 17 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Long Drives To See Subtitled Movies
RSGeo-007 When Sherlock Steve posted "Anything Screws Up Day", it reminded me of something similar that happened to me sometime around 1997.When the subtitled movie Titanic was being shown in Cincinnati, Ohio, and I was living in Louisville, Kentucky, I made plans to go. My main mistake was not calling the theatre for when it was showing.So, I drove two hours, arriving about 15...
Media Tech Culture Tue, Oct 14 2008 · 18 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Speedy Speakers, Gasping Interpreters
Jamie Berke (About.com) Here's a slice of my deaf life: Today at work I was in a session with a speaker. The speaker was so fast the interpreter was literally gasping for breath...
Language Tech Culture Tue, Oct 14 2008 · 19 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

My "Gilead"
Laurie's Dance with Sound Last month I "escaped" to my aunt Trudy's house in Ohio. I needed to get away for a little while for some peace and quiet. Even though I can hear wonderfully with my cochlear implants, there are still times in my life when I crave the peace that comes with silence and solitude. . . away from the noisy world with no distractions. I've been going to Trudy's house eve...
Tech Tue, Oct 14 2008 · 20 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Desma Hunts Diaries #4
The Rebuttal I planned to go shopping today. Deaf Netball Victoria are having their 50th anniversary celebration next month. Hubby and I are dressing up to the nines. I wanted to go shopping to up-size my Little Black-dress. I have to breathe you know. I am sure it will still be little. On my way out I checked [...]
Culture Tue, Oct 14 2008 · 20 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Town crier deafened by own bell after 25 years
deafness and hearing aids Town Criers are a long-standing tradition here in the UK. They are employed by a local authority to make public announcements in the streets - they were first used in Medieval times but we still have some around today. They shout their announcements in public places and ring a bell to get attention. These people are [...]
Tech Tue, Oct 14 2008 · 21 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Disability and Not Married ????
Jim This topic is for those people who are deaf, have Cerebral Palsy or has any disability and are not married. Don't treat your disability as something that that can prevent you from getting married when you are afraid of it.First of all, your disability should not prevent you from getting married, Your disability is unique and you have ways to enable yourself even with ...
Higher Education Tech Culture Tue, Oct 14 2008 · 22 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The Flip Side of the Phone
Say What? Relay Service Using VideoPhone I've been wondering lately what it's like for the hearing person on their side when they communicate with someone who is deaf. What is it like for you to be on the phone with a relay operator? For example, my husband doesn't like using the relay to communicate with me because no matter [...]
Media Language Tech Tue, Oct 14 2008 · 24 hours ago hide this blog flag post bookmark post

"Never Mind" You Say, "No Problem" I Say
SpeakUpLibrarian It happened again just the other day at work. I was looking for something in my cubicle when a coworker who was waiting for me spoke aloud from across the room. I was completely out of visual range and partly around a corner. I caught perhaps one word of what she said and didn't pay much attention to it. Surely she wasn't expecting me to hear her under those circumsta...
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Celebrating new legislation on Special Educational Needs
Campaigning for deaf children I went to a reception at the Department for Children, Schools and Families last week for a special reception. I knew it was going to be my kind of party when I saw they were serving Pringles. As a child, I was reknowned all around Leicestershire for my ability to eat a whole tub of [...]
Higher Education Education Tue, Oct 14 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Anything screws up day.
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!Well, it was bound to happen. Anything that goes so well, it's bound to screw up. In the very way of things that have happened to me today, my day has DEFINITELY gone skewed. Yes, it's a screw up.Right now, I'm laughing at myself. When I last saw the advertisement for the NTID Job Fair, which is today, it said it runs from 10am-2pm. Little did I know...
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UK Newspaper Featuring SG’s Website!
Welcome to ... Seek Geo!      I am pleased to share this very cool bit of news with you all. There is an article (below) featuring the Seek Geo website in The Guardian, a national UK newspaper. You can read the article by going to this link here. I think this is fantastic article written by Jen Dodds from [...]
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Annoucement- New Website
.Owens45. This is my first blog-Announcement- New Website.My friend and I made a website that called Deaf Community as www.deafcommunity.webs.com and the reason why we set that up because the deaf people should get know of the deaf events, etc.Example: Owens45's halloween party or go to colorado to see Ken Davis.Most of the deaf people don't know what's up with the eyeth (their...
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Deaf Japanese choreographer interviewed by UK newspaper
Deaf Japan News The Guardian, one of UK newspapers, issued on October 10, 2008, featured Deaf persons active in their own field. One of them, Ms. Chisato Minamimura from Japan, was interviewed. She is a contemporary dance choreographer and currently lives in London.For the detail of the interview, click the site: [link] her work was introduced in the TV program aired on September 23...
Media Art and Storytelling Culture Tue, Oct 14 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Tell me, what does Cyber Bully mean?
Der Sankt Speaks... Recently, I’ve been seeing the word, “cyber bullying” being thrown about in different blogs/vlogs at DeafRead and DVTV and from what it seems, each person has a different definition of what the word itself means exactly. I’ve, also, had this discussion with a few other people in real life and came to the decision that [...]
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