Deaf Awareness Week
Jamie Berke (About.com) The last week in September is always for recognizing deafness and hearing loss - it is called Deaf Awareness Week. Did your community do anything this week for Deaf Awareness...
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Deaf Boo!
DeafJoke.tv Deaf Boo Sign (hehe...) [...]
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Jean's Drifting Day, ASC and a Deaf boy on PBS
Jean Hi everyone! For your information, I couldn't access my gmail account. It kept kickng me out every time I logged in to check my email. I don't know what technical problem I have. I had to sit it out and wait for my roommate to come home this Tuesday from the field trip she is on right now to fix it. Sorry for the inconvenience. =(There, altough, is a bright side. The [...]
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Blogging: Taking that first step
DeafRead Human Editor Perhaps you’ve read something on DeafRead.com and found yourself wanting to post a juicy tidbit of your own. But you are afraid or hesitant to actually type it out and post it for the world to see. It?s a very difficult step to take, especially if you have never blogged before! People feel it’s [...]
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Welcome to Banjo's World
Banjo's World vlog [...]
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DeafRead Themes!
DeafRead Human Editor "All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy" For a change, I decided I needed to mix it up and do something fun for DeafRead. Fun for both you and me, that is. Welcome the DeafRead Themes! [...]
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Tecnocato: Closed Captioned Videocasts done the right way.
Jared Evans I was impressed by how Tecnocato has incorporated closed captioning within their videocasts. Tecnocato is based in Puerto Rico and they have gotten many requests from English-speaking people to add subtitles. Obviously, they felt that it was worth their time...
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Relay Services - caught in the act
DeafBiz On one hand, many hearing people are turning down accepting relay calls because they think it’s telemarketing or a scam. On the other hand, for those that do accept relay call, be very careful not to say anything you don’t want the deaf caller to hear. Here’s a tale of a Ford dealership bad-mouthing a deaf customer [...]
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Irony alert - deaf podcast
DeafBiz Did a Google search on “deaf podcast” and this is what I found: DeafSpot’s Podcast - nothing thereDeafstation podcast- nothing there Podcast tagged with deaf -There’s two listings, neither which has to do with deafness. On the other hand, here’s what was offered: The DisabilityNation Podcast: Podcast Transcripts fo Deaf/Hard of Hearing- [...]
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348: The Heart of Audism
Deaf in the City 348: The Heart of AudismThe worst kind of audism, to me, is when you explain to the other person your communication boundaries and they persistently ignore them. Perfect example? Ridor's story about his father:The nurse saw me there and she asked me if I could interpret. I said ?No! You can?t do that!? She asked me if I have a hearing sibling who can do that. I [...]
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Prison? No way... wait a minute, why not? Nah.
Marvin Miller (Laurent, SD) Candace McCullough of Alternative Solutions Center blogged about the fact that fully accessible prison was on the bottom of our poll list, and I thought she brought up several interesting points. Now, I can not imagine advocating building prison in our town -- especially in the early years, even though it would generate a lot of jobs in the town -- because of its [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

MÖSDEUX REINVENTED
Mosdeux We spent most of August and September redesigning to reflect our designers’ attention to detail and incorporation of the latest web technologies. The new design is not the only feast for your eyes. We have launched two more teaser clips for your entertainment: Keith Wann in ResonareTill Domestic Violence Do Us Part [...]
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Legitimate expressions of protest and Cyberbullying
Mishka Zena What is the line between legitimate expressions of protest and "cyberbullying"? Social activism is the process people engage in when they want to effect change; cyberbullies want change, too, but rather than try to influence others through reason and debate, they employ such tactics as intimidation, harassment and character assassination. Cyberbullying is displayed [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

A moment of Zen
Jared Evans I read with great interest Jean?s blog post ?Blog Triumphalism? In the blog post, she mentioned that DeafRead.com was brought up in her sociology class. This naturally piqued my curiosity since the essentiality of DeafRead is sociological and political in...
Sun, Sep 24 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

International Day of the Deaf
Adam Stone Did you know that yesterday was the International Day of the Deaf? I think it’s shameful that it’s such a non-holiday in America’s deaf community. So yesterday, I was introduced to the deaf community living in Sri Lanka’s southern province (although most were from the greater Matara area). I’ve already been to the school a couple [...]
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Lanka Ashok Leyland
Adam Stone Well, duh. Ayubowan doesn’t just mean good-bye. It also means hello, blessings, and all sorts of nice pleasantries. You say it while bowing a little and putting your hands together as in prayer. But don’t get the idea that people are ayubowaning each other all throughout Sri Lanka. No one has greeted me in this [...]
Sun, Sep 24 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Slemo Warrigan Takes a Stand!
DHH-CommUNITY ASL is a beautiful language. I believe in its beauty. I believe in its tremendous magic touch when it comes to the effective instruction of Deaf individuals from pre-k to tertiary education programs in the US. Should the Gallaudet leadership deem it appropriate to adopt ASL as an official language one of those days (yes, eternal [...] [...]
Sun, Sep 24 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Curious about the ethos permeating this blog? Just...
Triomphe L'oeil Curious about the ethos permeating this blog? Just click on the 'Tenor of Triomphe L'oeil' link in the top header. Must be a world first, for a blog's header having a vlog instead of the usual and witty text snippet! :) Enjoy.
Sun, Sep 24 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

NAD Does Listen
RidorLIVE NAD Does Listen: As a member of National Association of the Deaf (NAD), I was told by many individuals who discarded NAD because they feel the NAD was “all that over there”. After dealing with the NAD face to face since May, I can confirm that the naysayers are not telling the truth. They [...]
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Birthday Blues: Deaf and Hearing Parents Unite
Drolz Uncensored Creative ways for deaf parents to overcome wallfloweritis at CODA birthday parties [...]
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Blog Triumphalism
Jean Blog triumphalism was the word my Sociology professor employed to portray the Rathergate and Downing Street memo scandals. As a student of Sociology, as soon as Firefox unfolded the DeafRead list and Jared's post "sociological" title was the first word that caught my eye. Naturally. The truth is, that was a genuinely creepy moment of the day for me because yesterday, [...]
Sun, Sep 24 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

My Say about DHH-CommUNITY
Mike McConnell My first thought about DHH-community when it made its website debut a few months back was "What a great idea!" Now, did it bother me that the website was the brainstorm of several deaf and hard of hearing women from diverse backgrounds living in different parts of the country? Or the fact that many of them are career women or that they are also raising their kids, [...]
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Letter to FCC From Amy Cohen
Jamie Berke (About.com) Amy Cohen sent me a copy of her letter to the FCC regarding their issuance of closed captioning exemptions:RE: Matter of DA-06-1802A1 My name is Amy Cohen Efron, and I am...
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An open letter from Zoltan, Testing_the_truth
Mishka Zena Dear Protestors,a recent letter signed by six Gallaudet professors is like revelation of the smear tactic the administrators unleashed against the protesting community. The letter written by six women in support of the president designate looks like a clear attempt in sliming protestorswith pre-fabricated changes in front of the highest decision making forum of [...]
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Hurry up!! (HOVRS Commercial)
DeafJoke.tv Keith Wann in HOVRS commercial, check out his website at http://www.keithwann.com [...]
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