SpeakUpLibrarian - If She Only Knew.... (6 clicks)
October 8 2008
I got this Maxine cartoon in my email and I had to share it after my recent experience with a ghostly sounding coffee pot.

Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 - Call to help Abbie to the ALDA Convention! (8 clicks)
October 8 2008
A beautiful soul in the CI-blogger community is trying to raise 1000$ in order to attend the ALDA Convention (Association of the Late-Deafened Convention). Visit her blog for more details. She is one good soul who is alway warm, generous and supportive. She really deserves some support. This post will be removed after the deadline for [...]

DeafMom - What Do Deaf and Hard of Hearing People Need the Lyrics... (7 clicks)
October 8 2008
From the National Association of the Deaf blog: On September 30, 2008, a federal judge in Maryland ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires the Washington Redskins to provide fans who are deaf or hard of hearing with equal access to the auditory information broadcast over the stadium public address system at FedExField where the Redskins play. T...

CHRONICLES OF A BIONIC WOMAN - Halfway mark reached for ALDA Convention! (7 clicks)
October 8 2008
I am SO stoked! As you know, I am trying to raise a $1,000 dollars in ten days to attend the Association of the Late-Deafened Convention in Chicago from October 29th to November 2nd because I want to learn and educate myself on the different needs of those that are late-deafened. This past Saturday, I posted a blog asking for help and many thanks to your support, yo...

The Deaf Sherlock - Support Captioning at the Redskins Field! (7 clicks)
October 8 2008
G’day Everyone.While I’m taking a little break from bailout madness, I had a e-mail that needs to be alerted to everyone.Recently, a judge told that the Redskins Field have to be open captioned for the deaf community. But a strong poll is showing a massive opposition to the ruling. (at the e-mail it was in favor of NO support.). So what is needed to do?I need my rea...

Mishka Zena - BOO!!!! 58% Polled Against Football Captioning Decision (8 clicks)
October 8 2008
As of few hours ago over 400 votes have been cast. The results were: 38% YES 58% NO 2%  NO OPINION Of course when I first heard this,  my first response was pfffttthhh. I went to Washington Post poll center and voted YES. I was disappointed to find the comment section closed as I couldn’t leave my 2 cent. It’s very easy for [...]

Where’s Maisha? - Rumors (9 clicks)
October 8 2008
6:40 AM - Rumors Current mood: sleepy Hi, I would have posted my blogs almost every day but I was so caught up in meetings, meeting new faces, spending time with my devoted little soul sister, and hanging out with my true friends closer to my hea...

Mephisto’s Musings - WORD OF THE DAY: COMMUNITY [And We/Us/ Our] (7 clicks)
October 8 2008
Taken from the same book as the words ACTIVIST and MILITANT, Community is another word that the flatulating classes like to quote when there are serious issues that need confronting, but are deftly avoided because life is too short to be seen to be actually thinking. Instead, discussions are peppered with feel good words that make [...]

Deaf Japan News - Deaf man plans to climb the highest mountain of the Ant... (7 clicks)
October 8 2008
Yasuyuki Okubo (38), a deaf company employee in the Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, plans to reach the top of Vinson Massif (4,897 meters/16,050 ft), the highest mountain of Antarctica in December.Okubo lost hearing due to sickness at the age of three. If his challenge succeeds, he will be the first deaf person in the world according to the South Pole travel age...

-Selina^Wing- - Deaf Bloggers in Malaysia (10 clicks)
October 8 2008
Marzuki Ong, Md Sazali, Aqlam, Md Firdaus, Lim Anuar. Below (Right - left) - Selina Ooi, Irvine, Peter Tian, Ruey Jiuan, Amir Hamidi.Pengaruh blog Pekak Malaysia Pada tinjauan penulis terdapat sepuluh orang penulis Pekak Malaysia yang aktif dalam penulisan blog sepanjang tahun ini dan tahun lepas. Mereka ialah seperti yang berikut. Marzuki Ong Maliki Ong (Ha...

-Selina^Wing- - Deaf Bloggers in Malaysia (10 clicks)
October 8 2008
Marzuki Ong, Md Sazali, Aqlam, Md Firdaus, Lim Anuar. Below (Right - left) - Selina Ooi, Irvine, Peter Tian, Ruey Jiuan, Amir Hamidi.Pengaruh blog Pekak Malaysia Pada tinjauan penulis terdapat sepuluh orang penulis Pekak Malaysia yang aktif dalam penulisan blog sepanjang tahun ini dan tahun lepas. Mereka ialah seperti yang berikut. Marzuki Ong Maliki Ong (Ha...

The Deaf Perspective - Leah Katz-Hernandez: How to Canvass (8 clicks)
October 7 2008
I explain about canvassing. What’s it really like? Find out by watching the Vlog! Transcript coming soonI’m REALLY sorry... midterms are coming up and I got so many major projects for school. I’ll add in the transcript later! Meanwhile, enjoy the ASL :-)

The Rebuttal - Who is Laughing Now? (5 clicks)
October 7 2008
Our disability discrimination laws are a laughing stock. They have to be the most ridiculous and toothless laws that exist anywhere in a comparable country in the Western World. The residents of an Australian suburb that took their Council to court will testify to that. This is a tragic tale of a group of [...]

Southside7’s Weblog - See! I told you, my last few vlogs has merits about NAD... (5 clicks)
October 7 2008
Good evening everyone. My suspicous is now confirmed! Recall several of my vlogs discussing about NAD and their victory with 3 plainiffs against Washington Redskins to get captions in their stadium. I got email today and I have copied and pasted. Read below and decide for yourself. I cannot tell you who [...]

We Cue! - Cueing vs. Cue Reading (5 clicks)
October 7 2008
A recent comment to one my earlier posts made me stop and consider the differences in learning to Cue vs. learning to Cue Read and consequently allowed me to contemplate on one of my own personal dilemmas. Tasha left a comment stating that she was relieved to learn that a hearing individual did not always [...]

Jamie Berke (About.com) - Louisiana School for the Deaf Closes (13 clicks)
October 7 2008
The string of sex assaults at the Louisiana School for the Deaf finally got to be too much for the state superintendent of education in Louisiana. (The most recent case...

SpeakUpLibrarian - Something to Look Forward to: An Evening of Accessible ... (6 clicks)
October 7 2008
I’m so excited! My new friend Julie and I are going to a closed captioned theatre performance of Eurydice at Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago next month. I’ve been a theatre buff all my life. My parents took me to community theatre productions when I was a kid. Linda, my best friend from library school, and I once went to Stratford, Canada for their Shakespeare Festiv...

Glenn’s Story Book - Provost Follow-up (6 clicks)
October 7 2008
Glenn wrote:I had a follow-up meeting with the provost today at 1:00. I get there on time and who do I see but the CART person who was moved out of my ADMG 310 class. Making small talk isn’t really an option, but I did tell her that the teacher couldn’t understand one of the transcripts she created. She looked a little embarrased about that. She should be ashamed ...

DeafDC.com - Walls (5 clicks)
October 7 2008
Have you read Paul Schwartzman’s recent article in the Washington Post (entitled “Gallaudet’s New Aesthetic Openness”)?  If not, please do take a look-it’s pretty good.  Schwartzman’s focus is on Gallaudet University’s drive to develop a number of adjacent properties that it owns along Sixth Street using an architectural design conc...

The Rebuttal - A Blast from the Past (6 clicks)
October 7 2008
In the late 1990s I worked at VSDC which is now known as Deaf Children Australia. January of each year was generally a slow time with children being away on holiday. We used the time to tidy up minor administrative issues and set ourselves up for the New Year. One January my manager sentme [...]

An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan’s Cochlear - When an Idea Becomes a Reality: Live*Love*Hear (6 clicks)
October 7 2008
Design created by Rachel ChaikofKaren Feeser posted the following comment on the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Circle on October 1, 2007, right in the middle of our CI Awareness Campaign Discussions:I was thinking, we have all of these walks, runs, fundraiser ideasto raise awareness to breast cancer, leukemia, autism, muscular dystrophy....etc...why can we not have somet...

Ella’s Flashlight - What’s up with Deaf Hope? (3 clicks)
October 7 2008
DeafHopeFollowUp.mov (5:23 minutes) this video was made several days after my latest post and before the Deaf Hope Tea Party. rough translation: After posting the open letter to Deaf Hope, I went to the Deaf Hope website and clicked on the email links to the Board members and the CEO and left messages there. Waited a few days. [...]

bill creswell - City of Embers Captioned Trailer (2 clicks)
October 7 2008
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights–underground. Built as a refuge for humanity and powered by a massive generator, this City will only sustain for 200 years. Now Ember is falling into darkness as the generator fails. Despite growing concern for the future of [...]

Discovering Deaf Worlds - DDW back in the USA! (2 clicks)
October 7 2008
We made it home! After a year of discovering and documenting deaf worlds in eight countries, we are now back in Rochester, NY. Things that once seemed so familiar, like using tap water to brush our teeth or flushing toilet paper down the pipes instead of in a garbage bin, seem so unfamiliar now. Reality TV, yards, and paved roads are things we haven’t seen in a lon...

At The Rim - Screened Genes for All ? (2 clicks)
October 7 2008
The breakthrough of ID’ing hereditary illnesses gathers apace. The deaf tried to oppose it via Clause 14 of the UK embryology Bill via IVF. One doubts they have the success, despite claiming they had deafness ’downgraded’ from a ’serious’ disability, to a ’norm’, It didn’t however oppose OTHER disabilities getting the red flag waved at them. Without unity of deaf/...

RLMDEAF - Is the Time For NAD To Offer Free Membership? (3 clicks)
October 7 2008
Is the time for the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) to offer the basic free membership for the purpose of statistical numbers to show our political muscle to the elected officeholders and corporations and donors?What do you really think of this one?ASLize yours,Robert L. Mason (RLM)RLMDEAF blog

RLMDEAF - NAD’s Disastrous Protest V. NFB protest (3 clicks)
October 7 2008
Many of us already knew about the NAD’s disastrous protest against the "Tropic Thunder" film last summer 2008. NAD doesn’t protest soley against "Tropic Thunder" for endless mockery against disabled people in general. NAD went along with other disabled groups’ protest against that film.What about you think about the National Federation of the Blind’s latest protest ag...

RLMDEAF - How Come the NAD Didn’t Televise BB’s 80th Birthday Bas... (3 clicks)
October 7 2008
How come didn’t the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) televise the special events like Bernard Bragg’s 80th Birthday Bash and "ASL Idol" from the NAD Conference 2008 via webcasts?That would be an excellent opportunity for the National Association of the Deaf to do the nationwide membership recruitment tools and exposure for showing its own prestige and presence t...

Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature - New Children’s Book: My Heart Glow by Emily Arnold McCu... (3 clicks)
October 7 2008
My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and the Birth of American Sign Language (2008) by Emily Arnold McCully Reading level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover: 40 pages Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children Alice Cogswell was a bright and curious child and a quick learner. She also couldn’t hear. And, unfortunately, in the early nineteenth century in America, there was ...

Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature - New in October Children’s Book: Signs of Jays by Linda ... (3 clicks)
October 7 2008
Signs of Jays (October 2008) by Linda Kurtz Kingsley Publisher: Jason & Nordic Publishers ISBN-13: 9780944727225 Reading Age: 4 to 9 32pp Peter and his mother rescued two abandoned jays. Caring for the baby birds became a project for Pete, Mike, who was deaf, and for Pete’s mother’s hearing impaired class students. Just as the children in the hearing impaired gr...

Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature - New Book for Adolescents: From A to Zulinski by Deb Pip... (2 clicks)
October 7 2008
From A to Zulinski (May 2008) by Deb Piper Reading level: Ages 9-12 Publisher: Royal Fireworks Publishing Company This is the third volume in the chronicles of the irrepressible Jake’s schooling. We first met him in Jake’s the Name, Sixth Grade’s the Game and followed by his exploits in Those Sevy Blues. Jake is deaf and has relied on an interpreter to sign the spok...

Ed’s Telecom Alert - Clarification on LD Charges for New Ten Digit Phone Num... (2 clicks)
October 7 2008
All.. Based on feedback from quite a few of you, I think the long distance charges for the new ten digit phone numbers are confusing. First of all the ten-digit phone numbers you get from a VRS providers are real numbers - not proxy and not 800/866). These "real" numbers use regional-based area codes like 281 (Houston, [...]

Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 - Status update IV - early autumn 2008 - part 4 of 5 (2 clicks)
October 7 2008
Everyday life - restlessness I’m more stressed and restless. The feeling of social isolation is stronger than ever, and I’m more sad. It’s not depression, because I am able to initiate things and engage in activities that are good to me. The positive experiences about my body’s reactions to physical exercises this summer came at a [...]

Random Thoughts and Musings - Reclaiming The Deaf Term: HEARING, MOTHER FATHER DEAF (2 clicks)
October 7 2008
I’ve resisted the term CODA from the beginning, which is unlike me. I’m big on allowing members of a group to define their own identity and not to define them when I am not a member of the group. But the term that Americans have gleefully adopted to define those who are hearing with Deaf parents has always been jarring and wrong on some fundamental level for me. The...

CPSO at Gallaudet University - 2009 Academic Bowl Registration A Big Success (2 clicks)
October 7 2008
Team registration for the 2009 Academic Bowl, which took place on October 2, recorded almost 100 schools from across the United States. The deadline to register your school is October 17, 2008.  For more information, please go to the official Academic Bowl website.