Do Do If Hospital refuses to provide a live interpreter?
Mishka Zena One controversial Deaf blogger, Ridor, recently shared in his blog his frustrations regarding a hospital which refused to provide live interpreters for his Deaf father. In an email, I told him to inform the hospital administrator about the Dept of Justice decision on Laurel Regional Hospital, stating that hospitals must provide live interpreters in case the deaf [...]
Thu, Sep 21 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Continuing the Dialogue on Deafhood
DHH-CommUNITY By Sheri Farinha MuttiThere are a good number of people who have read the book, Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood by Paddy Ladd, though not as many as some would like.  I agree with people who feel that it is hard to have a good honest dialogue with someone if he hasn?t read the [...]
Thu, Sep 21 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Gallaudet Student Congress Rejects Fernandes
RidorLIVE Earlier in the evening at Gallaudet, the Student Congress held a meeting to discuss and ultimately passed the resolutions not to recognize Dr. Jane K. Fernandes as 9th President of Gallaudet. Not only that, the Student Congress also passed the resolution not to send any student representative to the Presidential Transistional Team (PTT) as outlined by [...]
Thu, Sep 21 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Hearing Aids for Men
DeafJoke.tv Artist- unknown (can’t read the name on the image) [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

School Plays - A Growing Up Deaf Memory
Jamie Berke (About.com) When I was a small child in a private hearing school, I was not allowed to have speaking parts in plays. I remember being a tree in a play, and...
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Mosdeux: Innovation and Imagination
DPN By DJ Kurs (Posted on September 20, 2006) Chad W. Taylor and Wayne Betts, Jr. are partners in Mosdeux, a film and commercial production house based in Roseville, California. Since late 2004, the company has produced movies and shorts for clients using digital video technology. Mosdeux plans to build upon its trademark visual style, the result of work geared towards [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Gallaudet Student Council Passes Resolutions
Elisa Abenchuchan Gallaudet Student Council Passes Resolutions -- To not recognize Jane K. Fernandes as the 9th president -- To refuse to send student representatives to the Presidential Transition Team -- To oppose the new Guidelines for Expressive Activities and AssembliesThese aren't the exact wordings -- was just informed by a student. As soon as I find more details, I'll make the [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Dunn's Beat on September: Remembering Tragedies
DPN By Lindsay Moeletsi Dunn (Posted on September 20, 2006)September is that cool, wet month when summer fades into fall and the hurricanes begin their annual migration from north to south. Colleges and universities around the nation are filled with the hustle and bustle of a new bunch of bright, ambitious youths anxious to begin their 4 year sojourn in the halls of [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

A Year Later: "Deeply Disappointed" But Optimistic...
DPN An exclusive interview with Dr. Glenn Anderson By Trudy Suggs (Posted on September 20, 2006) This is the second installment of a two-part article. The first installment, published September 7, 2006, may be found here. {mosimage}When Dr. Anderson stepped down as Gallaudet University board chair in November 2005 in order to apply for the university presidency, his [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

346: news and tea roundup, with extra rant
Deaf in the City 346: news and tea roundup, with extra rantNews: Today the biggest thing in news is the protest against the Washington Redskins for not including closed captioning (the Washington Post says "hearing-impaired" instead of "Deaf.") Ridor makes the point that hearing people have complained for access, too - well, of course. No hearing person would go to a movie totally [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Just A Quick Note
RidorLIVE A Time to Cheer! The doctors has notified us all that Dad fared excellent during the 6-hour heart bypass surgery. It started this morning at 8 AM and completed sometimes after 1 PM. Mom indicated that she has to attend the orientation meeting tomorrow morning to know more information regarding the aftereffects of heart bypass [...] [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Sound and Fury
Karen When Sound and Fury was released in October, 2000, the movie spurred discussions about cochlear implants all around the nation. The movie covered the story of two brothers who had deaf children. One chose to obtain a cochlear implant for his son, the other decided not to choose that for his daughter. I saw the movie in Chicago at a film festival with a friend. [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Oscar, Gallaudet, Johnson and TC
RidorLIVE Make Oscar Famous: In Richmond, an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University challenged his students in AdCenter, the nation’s No. 1 ranked graduate advertising program, in developing something that makes his 6 years old pug, Oscar, famous. Well, one student certainly made Oscar famous by making a threat to kill Oscar on MySpace.com. Suffice [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

abc7news.com: Deaf Community Targeted By Scam, Again
Daniel Greene The local Bay Area ABC News “I-Team” (investigative team) ran this news story on Brian Malzkuhn and Michael Johnson, two men — both college teachers who are deaf! — who ripped off deaf people in the process of being ripped off themselves by Nigerian scam artists. These men asked their deaf friends and colleagues for [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Shoshannah Stern's Premiere
Tayler Mayer Shoshannah Stern, who is deaf, is appearing on television tonight on the premiere of the new CBS TV series, “Jericho”. So tune in, Sho’s actually on the cast, as opposed to being a guest star or ocassionally appearing on the show. You’ll be seeing a lot of Sho. If you want to follow the series, start with [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

In Midst Of Open Heart Bypass Surgery
RidorLIVE Yesterday I made some videophone calls to the administration within the Chippenham Medical Center. Let’s say that I was very blunt, firm and tough with Janice, the CJW Medical Center Administrator, in demanding the interpreting services for my father. In other words, I told Janice about the case in Laurel, Maryland where a group of [...] [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The Lion City
Adam Stone (Again, writing from the iConnect lounge in Singapore Changi Airport) I gotta make this one quick, because I’ve got a 8:15 shoulder massage and shower appointment. Trust me, I need it. I know I’m staying at the Hilton tonight (for just one night, people!), but still, I want it now and not seven hours and an [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The Longest Night
Adam Stone (Writing from the iConnect Lounge in Singapore’s Changi Airport) So that was the longest night of my life, I think. See, here’s how it works. The sun set around 7PM in California (to be more specific, we were on I-5 in San Clemente) on Monday night, so that’s about six hours of darkness. Plus a fourteen-hour [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Cyberbullying by Deaf Proxy
Mike McConnell The Chronicle came out 5 days ago with an article written by Brock Read about how bloggers use the blogosphere for their harassment and electronic intimidation tactics against university presidents or administrators by getting them to step down or resign from their positions that bloggers find unsatisfactory. The Chronicle calls them "spitfire bloggers" but in [...]
Wed, Sep 20 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The Piano: Mainstream Music Gone Wild
Drolz Uncensored Aspiring singer Mark Drolsbaugh wreaks havoc in a mainstream school music class
Tue, Sep 19 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deafhood and Feminism
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Tue, Sep 19 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf and Blind
DeafJoke.tv Deaf and Blind Cartoon - Unknown artist [...]
Tue, Sep 19 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Been Blogging for Over a Month Now
Daniel Greene It seems that every time I get discouraged because no one is responding to my posts, I get a comment or an e-mail that reminds me I’m not just shouting in the dark. Well, I am shouting in the dark– but people are listening! Hmm… let me put that in a deaf-friendly way: I’m waving [...]
Tue, Sep 19 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Hearing World Rejects: Deafness and Religion
DeafDC.com Ok, insert all the qualifiers- this is my view, some of what I’ve grown up seeing, and what some of my experiences have been. And it’s something I just have to vent about. Can someone tell me why weird hearing people are so attracted to Deaf people? I can rattle off ten people that [...]
Tue, Sep 19 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Jokes for your eyes to feast off!
Wolmah How would u like to have jokes in videos for your enjoyment? You have came to right place, jokes are at your eyesmat! Jokes on your right column will take u to the videos. Enjoy while they last, in coming future this site will build up with a lot more videos, I will be posting at least 2 per week which comes up to 104 jokes per year. Wow! Yes! Enjoy! [...]
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