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Using your voice at Gallaudet University and elsewhere is OK
There were several instances of a protest supporter, student, faculty or alumnus who used his/her voice (without signing) in front of hearing, deaf, and hard of hearing audience. Most of these people...
View ArticleDiscrimination against hard of hearing students at Gallaudet University
Yes, discrimination (and even oppression! keep reading) occurs everywhere, even at Gallaudet University by some of their own deaf and hard of hearing people whether coming from students, faculty or the...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Cultish-like Behaviors
Over the years I have seen this red flag go up again and again from certain groups of deaf people or even certain deaf run organizations that exhibit certain cultish-like behaviors. I don't believe...
View ArticleA win-win-win situation
For any organization that serve the deaf and hard of hearing population as well as for parents of deaf and hard of hearing children should take every effort to accommodate the potentially wide ranging...
View ArticleReframing Hearing Gain
Back in the days before electronic hearing aids or cochlear implants became effective the term "hearing loss" was used to described a condition caused either by genetics, disease or accident. It is a...
View ArticlePower of Communication at a Table.
Are you deaf? Ever had a long conversation with a hearing person who does not know how to sign? If you did, did you bluff your way through? Nodding your head pretending to understand everything he's is...
View ArticleThe Walking Effect
The difference between Walk4Hearing and Walk for ASL? Walk4Hearing involves the community on a much larger scale with thousands of people every year in 22 different cities from June through October....
View ArticleThe power of captioning for deaf/hh organizations
I see this again and again the lack of captions in videos by organizations that serve the deaf and hard of hearing community, and even for parents of deaf and hard of hearing children. The lack of...
View ArticleDeaf people 4th grade reading level? Real or a myth?
I was reading an article about a lawsuit in a Portland (Oregon) police case involving the "mishandling" of a deaf person when no interpreter was provided. It is not the story I'm looking at but what...
View ArticleCalifornia Dept of Education Position Statement on Language Access
California Department of Education has recently posted on May 3rd (final paper on March 4) a position statement on language access of deaf and hard of hearing children in California. In support of...
View ArticleRemember AB2072...?
Remember AB2072? That was three years ago when the brouhaha started. Remember the veto of that bill and the reason why? Refresh your memory here. And how that bill could have created a path to have...
View ArticleStanford Acquires Advanced Instrument to Accelerate the Quest for Hearing...
Stanford Acquires Advanced Instrument to Accelerate the Quest for Hearing Loss Cure. February 26th was an especially good day for the Stanford team in their efforts to move closer to finding a cure for...
View ArticleDeaf Postmaster in Nebraska
Here's a captioned and signed video about a deaf postmaster in Nebraska. Noticed in the video picture in the foreground? Without that device the deaf postmaster would not be able to communicate...
View ArticleDeadliest and Most Accurate Remote Controlled Toy Helicopter
Absolutely frightening if this could be made into an assault helicopter in battle field, otherwise enjoy the extreme accuracy of a remote controlled toy helicopter that takes potential lethality to a...
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Independent Greek FROGs at Gallaudet University
Back in around 1988 on the campus of Gallaudet University there was this new independent “fraternity” group who called themselves “FROG” with the Greek capital letters phi (F), rho (R), omicron (O),...
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Stupid Deaf People, Two.
"Stupid Deaf People"...it's out there. The kind of unkind comments made by uniformed people, mostly hearing, who talk about deaf people in an unflattering way. I covered this before in 2007 with lots...
View ArticleDoes Terry McAuliffe care for disabled people?
Besides admitting to ditching his wife for politics not a lot of people are aware of how McAuliffe ignored people with disabilities while he was chairman of the DNC back in 2004. In a letter written...
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To the teacher(s) of ASDB
Wow. If this is true and actually took place at the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind then the offending teacher(s) ought to be ashamed of this action and attitude. The story reported in the...
View ArticleDeaf staff bullying others at ASDB?
Where is this "I am - Fiver!" when you need her or him around (see near bottom of page)? If this bullying actually happened then this would be the first known example of Deaf teachers or staff bullying...
View ArticlePoll: Should Kappa Gamma officially apologize to pledges for past hazing...
Here's an online poll. Should the Kappa Gamma fraternity at Gallaudet University officially apologize to all past pledges for hazing them whether they made it into the Kappa Gamma fraternity or not?...
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