June 7, 2010 Dear Consultant Mia Orr and the Senate Health Committee: I am writing to tell you to VOTE NO on AB2072. This bill is NOT held accountable by the state, but by private groups who are funneling millions of dollars into campaigning for this bill. If this bill passes, these private Read More
Archive for the ‘Advocacy’ Category
An Open Letter to Parents of Deaf Children
February 9th, 2010 by Modern Day Heroes
Dear Parent, As my last public blog post, before I go private on February 15, I wanted to write to the parents of deaf children out there. In particular I wanted to write to the hearing parents who have just found out that their newborn baby is deaf. I am not writing this to tell you what to do, Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Loss, Music |
Who Dat Dey Ya Can’t Do Dat?
February 4th, 2010 by candy
Here we go again. They say Karma’s a B♥tch. It is. What goes around comes around. It does. It’s the Super Bowl. And, all the radical, ASL extremist deaf eyes are scanning frantically all over the media’s forte. Searching and scrutinizing all the words. Ya see Cochlear Implants? Any Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Advocacy, Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid, Uncategorized |
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Northern Kentucky Services for the Deaf = A Winning Combination
January 1st, 2010 by Smashing Down The Door
Folks: I’ve written before about my positive experience with the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital before, and I just had another visit up there with my son yesterday. Once again, the hospital and NKSD interpreters teamed up to make what is usually a stressful experience for any parent a Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Deaf |
Podcast
November 20th, 2009 by Life Is About Creating Yourself
It’s common sense to me what is not accessible to deaf people because well…umm…I am deaf :-p What I always forget is that hearing people aren’t always aware. I was reminded of this at the NSGC conference when I was talking with a couple of people about how many genetic Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Deaf |
When public schools fail, consider private placement
August 29th, 2009 by The Orange Deafie
Source Link – When public schools fail, consider private placement Public schools don’t always accommodate special needs children with the services they require to succeed in school. Public schools may blame lack of funding or resources to give your child the education he deserves. “We’d Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Deaf, Education, Uncategorized |
Why Sign Language is So Important
August 28th, 2009 by ASL-CI
I was scanning the DeafRead blogs this morning and came across this one:http://souggy.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/deaf-shame/It so clearly explains some of the hidden pitfalls in the path of kids being raised as oral deaf. As a hearing parent, I have grieved over my child’s loss of hearing, Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Auditory/Oral, Cochlear Implant, Education |
Disability Law in ASL
July 2nd, 2009 by Communication Cincinnati
American Sign Language Video Podcast from the DISABILITY LAW LOWDOWN a project of the National Network of ADA Centers June 22, 2009 – The National Network of ADA Centers announces new episodes on the Disability Law Lowdown website at ASL.DisabilityLawLowdown.com. The first video podcast series Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Deaf, Hearing Loss |
Stickin’ it out…
June 20th, 2009 by dorkette: EXPOSED
Differentiating from your typical ASL-English interpreter, not only I am a Deaf interpreter but I am also a Deaf consumer. I team with hearing interpreters one day and they are interpreting my doctor’s appointment next day. How could they look in my eyes and confide me as their peer Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Deaf, Education |
IL Budget Cuts Hurt Those Who Need It Most
June 16th, 2009 by DeafMom
A friend of mine called me yesterday with some scary news–she wasn’t sure if she was going to still have her social services job this summer. The Illinois government is planning huge budget cuts that will affect nearly every social service job that receives state funds. Some Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
How Elphaba Defies Gravity” CBS video now CC!
June 11th, 2009 by Show of Hands
Seen the musical, WICKED? Ever wonder how the green girl defies gravity in the show’s big showstopping number? Head over to the link to watch! “Clip taken from CBS 2 News Chicago, explaining the basic storyline of ‘Wicked: A New Musical’ and then looking at how Elphaba Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Deaf |
RENT now announcing Terp/Captioned Performances on Twitter!
June 9th, 2009 by Show of Hands
A breakthrough for musical theatre fans! RENT the Broadway Tour has been announcing the ASL interpreted / and or Captioned performances for the cities they are visiting on their Twitter Feed. Check out those ‘twits’: The 2 PM Sunday, 6/14 show in Denver will be an ASL interpreted Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Deaf |
More Info from Hulu on Captioning
June 9th, 2009 by RSGeo-007
While Jamie and I have been discussing the issues related to Hulu and Netflix, including the upcoming new Epix website, Jamie got a response from two people from Hulu; Eugene from the help desk writes; “I think the issue is that often we’re sent digitized videomasters that have the Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Deaf |
T-Shirt: I Hate Deaf People
June 8th, 2009 by Seek Geo
I have seen some “I Hate Deaf People” in videos, blogs, letters, e-mails from time to time. This time, I found where they are even selling t-shirts saying “I Hate Deaf People” and not only that, it is being said in ASL-fingerspelling. Ok now, I’m not sure if it was meant to be a Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy |
“The Wizard and I” from WICKED now captioned!
June 4th, 2009 by Show of Hands
The press release of the song “The Wizard and I” from the Broadway production of Wicked is now captioned! If one cannot see the show, this is a good alternative! Very good quality video! Link: Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Deaf |
Official Announcement
May 13th, 2009 by Show of Hands
Got the Rent e-newsletter and an item of interest popped up: “RENT: THE BROADWAY TOUR is proud to announce that all videos posted on the show’s official YouTube Channel now have Closed Captions for fans who are Deaf or hard of hearing. To turn on the captions feature when watching a Read More
