bill creswell - Twilight - Captioned Trailer (5 clicks)
October 10 2008
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the [...]

A Deaf Mom Shares Her World - The Importance of Fundraising And Getting Involved (5 clicks)
October 10 2008
I love what I’m seeing on the web today– people working together–raising awareness, funding non-profit organizations and supporting causes.  Today, I want to share a few things that are important to me and I hope you’ll take a moment to get involved as well. I’ve long been involved with supporting Hands & Voices and you may [...]

Five String Guitar - Giving Thanks. (4 clicks)
October 10 2008
This Monday marks the Canadian Thanksgiving. A traditional family day that revolves around eats and thanks, and a quiet, typically Canadian, introspective on the good things that grace our lives. For me I have a cornucopia of things that give me reason to "count my lucky stars". Barely one year off life support, I am fortunate enough to be going in for a surgery that ...

Campaigning for deaf children - NDCS campaigns at the party conferences: a post-mortem (3 clicks)
October 10 2008
The party conferences are now over and I’m back in London, oddly excited by the prospect of spending a whole 5 days in the office. So was it all worth it? My considered view is yes. I think we, as a small-ish charity, punched above our weight and made a range of new connections that [...]

bill creswell - Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist - Captioned Trailer (4 clicks)
October 10 2008
Available in MoPix:Nick frequents New York’s indie rock scene nursing a broken heart and playing the bass with his queercore band, The Jerk Offs. Norah is questioning pretty much all of her assumptions about the world. Though they have nothing in common except for their taste in music, their chance encounter leads to an all-night [...]

submit by: Joseph - The Language of Respect: NY Times (4 clicks)
October 10 2008
A Deaf teacher talks about earning respect from various kinds of students.

Butterfly, like me...Deaf’s v/blog - My First Video, Then and Retake ~~ 10/09/08 (4 clicks)
October 9 2008
Retake Video October 9, 2008~~ I repeated what I mentioned in my first video! :DMy first video October 5, 2007Compare the first video, and compare the current video. See how I approach the video with more confidence than I did with my first video. Thank you, DeafRead, for giving me the opportunities to be myself in the media field. I appreciate this very much. I just ...

NTID News - NTID Sets Enrollment Record (3 clicks)
October 9 2008
Enrollment has reached an all-time high at NTID, with 1,450 students, shattering the previous enrollment record set in 1984. Outreach efforts have succeeded, applications remain strong, students are staying in school longer and programs have been expanded, explains NTID President Alan Hurwitz.

Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers - Yay! First 15000 Visits! (3 clicks)
October 9 2008
Eleven posts, 19 days and 2500 visitors later, I again achieved another milestone of 15000 visitors! Congratulations to me! hehehe This achievement is a marked improvement from my last one. It took me less than 21 days to reach this and a smaller number of posts (11 compared to 15). I now average 53 visitors per [...]

RSGeo-007 - NEVER Give Out Your Password! (Part two) (3 clicks)
October 9 2008
A month ago, I posted this article, Give Out Your Password? NOT! NEVER! It’s even more urgent and very important that you do not even give your password out to anyone, not even someone who claims to be your friend. Here’s why;Internet scammers target deaf communityThe scam works exactly the same way in every time. They say you’ve won money or something like that. In r...

Deaf Progressivism - Celebrating Int’l Day of Sign Languages at Sacramento (4 clicks)
October 9 2008
It was an inspirational moment for me and many others (over 700) who attended the Int’l Day of Sign Language, Californians for ASL on September 26, 2008. I was very impressed about the organization of the successful event with a variety of Deaf speakers and performers. I wished I could tape it all but to find out that the battery life was limited and with no recharger in hand, this was as much as I could get.

Jamie Berke (About.com) - National Technical Institute for Deaf Enrollment Booms (3 clicks)
October 9 2008
The National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a technical college, is seeing an enrollment boom. I just received a press release from NTID stating that this year’s enrollment hit a...

Please face me, I read lips - I know I’ve mentioned this before, but one of my bigge.... (3 clicks)
October 9 2008
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but one of my biggest pet peeves is doctors who forget I wear hearing aids.  I remind and remind.  They can’t note it on the front of their charts because of privacy concerns.  They might note it inside somewhere but after a few months, they forget to look.  Getting [...]

BLOGVISUALSIGNAREXTREME - Historia del gesto de la poesía (Pamplona) (4 clicks)
October 9 2008

LAUGH. LEARN. SIGN. - CODA BROTHERS! ASL LESSON 1 (4 clicks)
October 9 2008

Say What? - More on Online Classes (4 clicks)
October 9 2008
The second half of my first quarter has me in two new classes, and the method these lectures are being done is different from the first class.  If you don’t remember, my previous and first class was done in PowerPoint presentation with live text chat discussing what was on the PowerPoint presentation. This is my [...]

submit by: DeafMD.org - DeafMD.org: Bridging Medicine and the Deaf World (6 clicks)
October 9 2008
Welcome to DeafMD, an innovative website providing accurate, concise, and valuable health information in American Sign Language to the Deaf & Hard of Hearing population. Using health information created by two trustworthy and unbiased government sources—the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health, our team of healthcare providers, linguists, ...

SayWhatClub Weblog - Fast Talking Friends (4 clicks)
October 9 2008
This is NOT a rant (well, maybe a little) - just some existential grumbling. Great news! My recently acquired BTE hearing aids have made a huge improvement in my speech recognition. But mind you, improvement is just that - my SR still isn’t “normal”; I still need most speakers to face me, and though group conversations [...]

The Deaf Sherlock - Louisiana School for the Deaf Situation. RIT Brick City... (6 clicks)
October 9 2008
G’day everyone.Word has reached me that there is a protest/ temporary closure of the Louisiana School for the Deaf going on. There are various articles going on about it. Links: [link] more, a Gallaudet University protest leader was sighted at this protest. That’s sad.But I do want to comment that the events that are happening at the Louisiana School for the Deaf a...

Oh I See! - The Cat Artist (5 clicks)
October 9 2008
ASL Halloween story as recalled from my days at the Deaf school about a boy who loves to draw cats. Update: A paranormal activity (ghost or orb) occurred in the background of a DVTV video commenter, "MuscleEagle". See it for yourself at :44 and 2:42. Spooky!

Maryland Association of the Deaf - Why is it important to vote? (1 click)
October 9 2008
We are rapidly approaching a very important time in our country – the presidential election. The deadline to register to vote in the state of Maryland is October 14th. Maryland Association for the Deaf does not endorse any particular candidate. MDAD is a non-profit organization with neutral political views. What we do is focus on [...]

deafmac.org - Sketches (4 clicks)
October 9 2008
The first day of the released App Store, Sketches was the first program I purchased for my iPhone. A very simple app that allows you to freely doodle stuff using your fingers. What I did not realize at that time, the artistic app would become my “paper and pen” communication tool. I use Sketches [...]

Welcome to ... Seek Geo! - Super Nanny - The Reality Show (6 clicks)
October 9 2008
     Anyone ever watch Super Nanny the reality show? Even though, I am big fan of reality shows, I have never seen this show before. But tomorrow night (Friday at 9pm EST) on ABC, I will definitely be watching because a deaf family will be part of it. In case some of you might [...]

DeafJoke.tv - Pamplona (5 clicks)
October 9 2008
Poetry gesture story Note: If you are not sure what Pamplona is - click here and understand what it means. Created by MindyTheron Tags: animation, art, ASL, hands, Pamplona, special-effects, Theron-Parker

BLOGVISUALSIGNAREXTREME - The CHOCOLATE (teatrale performance to Turin)//El CHOCO... (4 clicks)
October 9 2008
The day 8 Saturdays November 2008 to Turin in the arena dell’ ENS of Turin in via Trana ang. Course France 73 to the 21 will be an entitled teatrale performance " The cioccolato" interpreted from Lucia actors Daniel, Rita Mazza and Ace Seyed-Tow Mahbaz with the Alive collaboration of Mask c/o Ass. --- día 8 sábados el noviembre de 2008 a Turín en la arena dell’ ENS d...

bill creswell - By Request: SuperNanny-Deaf Guests Preview Captioned (4 clicks)
October 9 2008
Preview of SuperNanny Episode featuring Deaf Parents with hearing kids, October 10 more about "SuperNanny-Deaf Preview Captioned", posted with vodpod Posted in Captioned Video Tagged: Captioned TV Clips, Captions By Request

Deaf Japan News - Puppet show presented at schools for the deaf to promot... (6 clicks)
October 9 2008
On October 8, a puppet theater company, called the "Deaf Puppet Theater-Hitomi," presented a puppet show titled "Fire of the Rick" in the Kawasaki Municipal School for the Deaf, Nakahara Ward, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture in the neighboring area of Tokyo. Thirty-eight deaf children enjoyed the performance.The Deaf Puppet Theater-Hitomi, based in the Modern Puppe...

SURROUND SOUND - Can you help? (6 clicks)
October 8 2008
The end of this month I am planning to be in Chicago for the Association of Late Deafened Adults (ALDA) conference. I have wanted to check out ALDA for over a year now and had a rare opportunity given to me this year...I obtained a scholarship and my expenses are all paid. If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t be able to go. I am so grateful for the opportunity...these c...

Jamie Berke (About.com) - Does Attending Private School Mean No 504? (16 clicks)
October 8 2008
Jschwech on the forum has a problem. Their daughter, who is apparently hard of hearing, attends a private school. Her parents want to know how their daughter can get 504...

An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan’s Cochlear - Abbie Needs Help...to Pay it Forward (6 clicks)
October 8 2008
Ok. We all know that Seek Geo sleeps with a copy of Abbie’s magazine cover under his pillow and that she has a thing for anal rice. We know that she is a trash-picker and a leaf-raker and oftentimes confuses words like this: "When a man says bosom, it sounds like booze."Abbie oozes charm:I can’t believe that one year ago today, I underwent surgery to have a cochlear i...

DeafNation - The Bicycle Jungle (7 clicks)
October 8 2008
The cold Wisconsin air bit through my DeafNation polo shirt as I rummaged past hundreds of vintage bicycles, following 27-year old Ryan Kelly into the second floor of his barn, which was serving as one of his three ’garages’.

DeafDC.com - Missing a Sense Does Not Equate Loss of Common Sense (7 clicks)
October 8 2008
By Julie Feldman Last year, I was waiting to cross a very busy intersection in Penn Quarter. I looked to my left and there was a blind man with his telltale white cane also waiting to cross the street. Instinctively, I reached out my arm; I thought that, obviously, he needed help crossing the street. Then [...]

Amy Cohen Efron - Questions for Louisiana School f/t Deaf… (13 clicks)
October 8 2008
Amy Cohen Efron created two vlogs responding to an unfortunate event that happened at Louisiana School for the Deaf and in these vlogs, there are important questions regarding deaf children’s right to continue their education, LSD’s staff, teacher, and administrative responsibilities, and suggestions how to improve safety for deaf children everywhere. *** ...

A Deaf Mom Shares Her World - Stepmom Shares Life with Deaf Twins (6 clicks)
October 8 2008
I love Twitter. Over on Twitter, I’ve been able to network and connect with a variety of people that I probably wouldn’t have gotten to know through normal networking channels. I consider Twitter to be my virtual watercooler– I go over there to hang out during my breaks and I get to join in numerous [...]

Five String Guitar - One Week To Go. (5 clicks)
October 8 2008
In one week surgery will take place to address the non-functioning electrodes in my cochlea. The good surgeon will make it right. This I know.He will take out a bunched and scrunched set of electrodes that refuse to cooperate, straighten them out and put them back in place. These guys are good, and the team knows how to fix things.I have no doubt.Today is surgery pre-...