HAPPY ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY TO ME
World of Silence “Silence is still golden.”  A few years ago from this month I woke up and sound was gone.  I lost my hearing permanently and without reason.  The only thing the doctors can think of was multiple ear infections.  I stopped asking the questions “Why me? What now? How?”  After wasted hours trying to find answers to those questions, I concluded that being dea...
Sat, Apr 19 2014 · 37 minutes ago

Word Choice When Describing Deaf People is a Worldwide...
Silent Grapevine In the WFD Statement delivered by Dr. Joseph Murray at the opening of the 11th session of the CRPD Committee, 31 March 2014, you can see he uses the word Deaf to describe the community as a whole. He is cited in several articles at a different presentation using different words to describe his keynote. While the Deaf community in America detest words like hearing impa...
Sat, Apr 19 2014 · 2 hours ago

I Congresso de Educação dos Surdos
Cultura Surda Categoria: Eventos País: Brasil Línguas: Português e Língua de Sinais Brasileira (Libras/LSB) Site oficial:  [link] Dos dias 04 a 06 de junho de 2014 será realizado na Unicentro (Campus Santa Cruz, Guarapuava – PR) o I Congresso Nacional de Educação dos Surdos: conquistas e desafios. O evento terá como objetivo “proporcionar a discussão e reflexão dos ...
Sat, Apr 19 2014 · 11 hours ago

US Navy to Deafen and Kill Whales
Xpressive Handz This is a video with Pierce Brosnan is captioned! (Click CC if you need captions) What we can do to stop this.Read more and sign the petition here: ---
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 15 hours ago

Lawsuit against Gally tossed out
Deaf News Today Angela McCaskillimage from Gallaudet University A million dollar lawsuit against Gallaudet University has been dismissed by a federal judge. We first told you about Angela McCaskill filing the lawsuit last fall in a post here. The University’s chief diversity officer said the school violated an anti-discrimination law when she was placed on paid leave for signing ...
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 16 hours ago

Gaël Aguilera Shares Impact of Having a Cochlear Implant
Silent Grapevine A seven year old girl, Katie Engle had died. "The first symptom -- a headache -- showed up a few days earlier. Katie was admitted to a hospital on Friday. Engle said her daughter didn't have the other symptoms associated with bacterial meningitis, which include vomiting, fever and lethargy, until she got to the hospital."(KETV) This video is in reaction of this story...
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 18 hours ago

Some Holiday Photos
Life with a Cochlear Implant Photos of the ship, sunrise and sunset, Port Canaveral, Coco Cay, the plane, Shrek and Puss in Boots. Loved every moment of this two week holiday(vacation)
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 18 hours ago

More Deaf Awareness
Life with a Cochlear Implant In the past two days I have noticed more and more deaf awareness, Thursday Morning I was at the tills in my local Tesco and the cashier signed bag for me and I said yes please. She knew I am deaf because I am a regular and my HA was visibleYesterday I was in Morrison and a lady tapped me and pointed to the floor, I had dropped my pen. My CI and HA was visibleSome peop...
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 20 hours ago

How often do you go for hearing check ups?
Life with a Cochlear Implant I am curious, how often do you go for hearing check ups? I haven't had a hearing test since 2009(for my CI) and 2011 for my HA(rough estimates)I am sure there is much better technology out there available for my HA ear.
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 20 hours ago

Impala Evolution
Cultura Surda Categoria: Propaganda País: Brasil Anunciante: Impala Línguas: Português e Língua de Sinais Brasileira (Libras/LSB) Site oficial:  [link] No anúncio criado pela agência DW Comunicação, a soletração manual da marca Impala Evolution torna-se um ótimo pretexto para evidenciar a qualidade do esmalte. A propaganda, veiculada no ano 2000, mostra uma solução s...
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 20 hours ago

Open Letter to Media From The Silent Grapevine's Editor
Silent Grapevine Dear Media Community -For the longest time, the Deaf community has been under-represented in many areas of talent, doubted, and even pitied. Just over the past fifty years, we have been able to gain recognition. It isn't that our predecessors were not brilliant; it is that they weren’t able to share their ideas and dreams with the world because of lack of access. Th...
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 21 hours ago

Extra-classe – Educação de Surdos
Cultura Surda Categoria: Surdez na mídia País: Brasil Línguas: Português e Língua de Sinais Brasileira (Libras/LSB) Nesta edição do programa Extra-classe, transmitido pela Band Minas, o tema educação de surdos é posto em destaque. Elidéa Bernardino, professora da UFMG, fala – entre outros assuntos – dos percalços enfrentados na implantação de aulas de Libras no...
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 21 hours ago

Here Comes Speed Racer
Sudden Silence I read the email subject line in confusion. “You’re the Top Vaseline Badge Holder from the J’Adore VoxBox”!” What? I read it again as it slowly sunk in that the email was from Influenster and it was in reference to the box of samples I’d received in February, what they called the J’Adore VoxBox. In […]
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 22 hours ago

Metro-sexual Man
At The Rim Last of the 3 silly blogs.... At a dinner the other night, (My partner only wants to be seen with me then, so she can blame poor lighting), I saw some bloke listing the calorie count of the food, comparing it with an nutritional dictionary he had downloaded to his mobile phone, even drawing the waiter's attention to the fact the cutlery was placed incorrectly, comple...
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 22 hours ago

Here comes Summer....
At The Rim An irreverent look at how the welsh holiday makers see the world outside Wales....AH ! summer is coming (At least that's what travel agents tell us, as they flood my post box with exotic destinations to visit for about £5 a flight with an outside toilet.  Personally and being British, I don't hold with foreign holidays, if God had meant us to travel he wouldn't have...
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 22 hours ago

Hi! Theatre
Cultura Surda Categoria: Teatro País: Singapura Línguas: Inglês e Signing Exact English (SEE2) / Singaporean Sign Language Fundado em 1986, o Hi! Theatre (Singapore Theatre of the Deaf) reunia atores surdos de Singapura, pequeno país ao sul da Península Malaia, no sudeste asiático. As produções da companhia eram influenciadas, sobretudo, pelo teatro visual – vertente do...
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 23 hours ago

Why won't they print my book ?
At The Rim My latest attempt, to try getting some publisher to recognise the truly outstanding disability I have with the printed word, has, somewhat sadly, been cast to the lexicographic four winds again, AND I AINT GUNNA STAND FOR IT ! (Sorry about that..)  So I have decided to write to said publishing house of Stott, Stott, Thribble and Stott with my earnest concern and encl...
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 23 hours ago

Overtime Win
Indy Hawks Indy Hawks  72 – Arizona Desert Fire 66 (OT) The Indy Hawks defeated the Arizona Desert Fire in a hot game in overtime, 72-66. The Hawks were flat all through the game, coming alive only when faced with being bounced from the tournament. The last 1:32 of the game saw the Hawks play ferocious defense, […]
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 24 hours ago

Indy Hawks Defeat Spokane, 104-78
Indy Hawks Indy Hawks 104 – Spokane (WA) Bigfoot 78 Utilizing the skills of combo guards Robert Haney, Jr. and Sekoe White – The Hawks came out very aggressive in driving inside upon Spokane’s 6’10 center Rhett Richardson and 6’7 F Andy Helm, forcing them into immediate foul trouble. The Hawks took advantage of their absence to […]
Fri, Apr 18 2014 · 24 hours ago

The point of spirituality is to ....
Xpressive Handz "The point of spirituality is to bring us together, not to split us apart, to bring us together in united, mutual understanding and knowledge." "that they would be One..." May my attitude, words and actions unite and heal rather than to ever consciously wound and divide. May that to which I give my attention be the same. Sowing discord comes from a heart ruled by fear...
Fri, Apr 18 2014

The Song Let it Go From Disney's Movie Frozen in ASL
Silent Grapevine With the "Frozen" epidemic going on and little girls falling in love with Elsa, the snow queen, this song is a great song to have been transformed into ASL for Deaf little girls so they can see what "Let it Go" looks like in their native language. The interpretation was done by Molly Bartholomew. Her Youtube profile has been dedicated to ASL, "I have dedicated this c...
Fri, Apr 18 2014

Taking a break from posting now till August
Liz's Deaf Blog Liz's deaf blog will be taking a break earlier than planned now, with me hoping I will be moving soon to a new home if everything still goes as planned.During this break: I won't be posting any new posts till August, so please see right of blog at the polls when closed 18th May for final results. These will stay visible till July time. I will publish comments and an...
Fri, Apr 18 2014

The Lost Coast
doozeedad I didn’t know that places like this still existed in California. Maybe in the Appalachian Mountains or somewhere else in the huge spaces of this country, but… California? I thought I had covered pretty much every part of my native state, and I have never seen anything like this. But then again, I’ve never been to […]         Related Stories Mile Mu...
Fri, Apr 18 2014

ridicuLIST: Deaf People Can't Walk (In Airports)
DeafREVIEW There’s a long-running joke that Delta Air Lines, which operates +5,000 flights daily, is an acronym for “Doesn’t Even Leave the Airport”. But for those in the Deaf Community, it may as well be “Deaf Erroneously Lose Their Ambulation”. That’s because despite the universally (or so we thought) known fact that being deaf is specific to the ears, many air...
Fri, Apr 18 2014

Hearing Aids in the Wrong Places - Part 1
RSGeo-007 But of course, we all know there's places to never put a hearing aid. Jennifer Stuessy's The 10 most dangerous places for a hearing aid has a good listing, but probably is missing a few places we never think about.She mentions never to put it on a nightstand, but inside. Or better yet, never place it out in the open in an area where there's a lot of things being picke...
Fri, Apr 18 2014