TENT CITY AT CSD FREMONT!!!
Bay Area Perspective on Gally
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I Hear Deaf Voices! Please, Make it Stop!!
Mike McConnell It is not surprising to see a general bias along with a certain convulsive reaction from many in the Deaf community towards hard of hearing or deaf people who can talk well. Especially by those who value oratory skills.I have seen these general BS remarks from time to time by Deaf people whenever they make generalizations about HH people's ability to talk equivocating [...]
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Gally Student's Vlog on Audism Mandates & Trust
Mishka Zena Jesse Thomas on Audism Mandates & Trust
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Google Video offers Closed Caption playback « sgLEAD
What matters deafness of the ears, Singapore Librarians for Empowerment & Advocacy for the Disabled (sgLEAD) has a neat demo on how close captioning helps even the hearing too. The Closed Captioning feature in Google Video will be a boon to those who are Deaf or Hearing Impaired, especially when services like Google Video and other similar video-sharing platforms are gaining [...] [...]
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REVIVAL OF TENT CITY
Elisa Abenchuchan At 8 am, members of the Gallaudet community will come together to camp out peacefully in protest of what continues to be a flawed process at Gallaudet University: a state that we fear will lead to a flawed University.Elsewhere in the nation, communities will also join the protest by setting up their own tent-cities. One such instance is the Bay Area GUAA Chapter. They [...]
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Best Way to Learn Sign Language
Jamie Berke (About.com) I am frequently asked what the best way to learn sign language is - video? classes? books? The answer is, the best way to learn and practice sign language is...
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Iraqi Girl Whose Hearing Was Restored:
Kalalau's Korner Iraqi Girl Whose Hearing Was Restored: An Ongoing Misleading CelebrationJamie Berke?s posting about whether Iraqi girl will be alive next year got my attention. I checked the article and I became highly disturbed by the headline about restoring one?s hearing. It has been an ongoing ill-advised and misleading term. No human being can restore anyone?s hearing; they can [...]
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Charl De Villers
Grant Laird Jr. I got VIP invitation by Lovers Lane Church – for this special silent dinner and presentation. I get chance to see George F. Bush (Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s Son) – he gave nice presentation about his grandfather signed ADA law and etc. It was short presentation from him. He looks a lot like his father. Also, [...] [...]
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Impromptu Review of JerichoJericho Review (01:38 Vlog -...
Triomphe L'oeil Impromptu Review of JerichoJericho Review (01:38 Vlog - Captioned)
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Open Letter from Former Gallaudet Professor
Elisa Abenchuchan Read it here.
Sat, Sep 30 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Off to Williamsburg!
RidorLIVE I’m heading to Williamsburg to celebrate a birthday bash for a certain friend of mine. Not only that, many of them are from Gallaudet.  So I should be able to see them and get the real pulse of what is happening at Gallaudet. Among a tidbit I wanted to share, I’m so glad Republican Congressman Mark Foley [...]
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Deaf Education on Talk of the Nation Oct. 12
Karen A parent sent me this announcement:OUTGOING gallaudet university PRESIDENT I. KING JORDAN JOINS NPR'STALKOF THE NATION FOR DISCUSSION ON HIS LEGACY AND the CONTR0VERSY OVERHISSUCCESSOR THURSDAY OCTOBER 12, 2006REAL-TIME LIVE CAPTIONING TECHNOLOGY PROVIDED at www.npr.org; FOR DEAF AND HEARING IMPAIRED PARTICIPATIONSpecial Two-Hour Broadcast to Explore Future of Deaf [...]
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English Education in Sri Lanka
Adam Stone Thursday was my first full day of teaching at the school. In two days at the Rohana Special School, I’ve just about learned all there is to know about English education for the deaf in Sri Lanka. Despite my limited (but not for long!) fluency in Sinhala Sign Language, my inability to read or speak [...]
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Will She Be Alive Next Year?
Jamie Berke (About.com) A deaf child who came to America from Iraq to get a cochlear implant, will be returning to Iraq with her family soon, according to NBC6.net. Reading the story and...
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Rethinking the Sign for Therapy
Alternative Solutions Center
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Our move now complete, we are ready to roll!
Marvin Miller (Laurent, SD) Thank goodness its Friday! We moved out of our office into my home, and now -- as one witty commenter said -- I can work in my pajamas! No, seriously... M.E. would die of heart attack if she saw me in my Superman pajamas. Not good. A local TV station ran a story on Laurent 2 days ago, and it wasn't entirely positive. We explained that, yes -- The Laurent Company is in [...]
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Finally, Caption Playback
via link submit Finally, Caption Playback By now, you may have noticed that we've just introduced a small but significant new feature that many of us have long awaited: playback of captions and subtitles! If you haven't tried it yet, you can go to this page, select a captioned video, and while playing it you can click on the [CC] symbol to turn captions
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Fording the River Styx
DeafDC.com By Allen Neece What do you do when your body suddenly rebels against you? What do you do when you?re instantaneously rendered immobile, unable to walk without the aid of crutches? What do you do when your holistic sense of physical well-being crashes and burns, a smoldering wreckage adding volumes to the L.A. smog levels, leaving [...]
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Ban Ricky?
Tayler Mayer Someone has the silly notion that Ricky Taylor, of RidorLIVE, can be banned from CAD’s October 13-15 gala. Watch Video
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USADSF, USOC, CISS and Deaflympics
RidorLIVE Few weeks ago, several United States Deaf Athletes got in touch with me to talk about their frustrations with the United States Deaf Sports Federation (USADSF) regarding the funds in order to participate with the 16th Winter Deaflympics in Salt Lake City. The scores of emails going back and forth between the Deaf athletes and and [...]
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Set the web on fire!
DeafRead Human Editor Approximately 57% of DeafRead visitors use Microsoft Internet Explorer. While that is fine and dandy, carefully compare the two below screenshots. Microsoft Internet ExplorerMozilla FirefoxJared and I do all what we can to optimize the experience on all browsers (Primarily Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari). It is our responsibility to ensure that it appears and [...]
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HLAA Interviews Jane Fernandes
9thPrez.com Updates HLAA Interviews Jane Fernandes -- the Ninth President of Gallaudet UniversityBy Christopher Sutton September/October 2006 issue of Hearing Loss Magazine(This article is reprinted from the September/October 2006 Hearing Loss Magazine. Copyright Hearing Loss Association of America (www.hearingloss.org) In May 2006 Jane K. Fernandes, Ph.D., the provost of Gallaudet [...]
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Deaf Internet Usage
Ed's Telecom Alert All.. [See below] From Washington Watch News. It made me wonder if a study was done for the deaf and hoh, what would the result be? Keep in mind that it has been published that only 10% of entire deaf population have college education; so what would that mean in terms of access to Internet from [...]
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Daughter Has Mondini. Implant?
Jamie Berke (About.com) An About visitor wrote: I am [from] Bangkok, Thailand. My daughter has a congenital hearing defect. Last month we contacted a surgeon for a possible cochlear implant but after a CT...
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Carl Dupree: The Ultimate Victim Of Audism
Mishka Zena This new trend of student activism came to an abrupt end with the untimely demise of Carl Dupree, one of the prominent student leaders protesting the handling of the remedial English 50 courses. (The English Dept back then held a mostly audistic attitude. The evaluation of final exams for the remedial English courses was considered too arbitrary and not standardized [...]
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