There have been some very good posts out on the recent FCC activity in granting “permanent” exemptions to the ADA’s requirement for closed captioning. In a nutshell, the ADA when enacted provided for “total” captioning to be implemented by January of 2006. Looks around herself. Nuh, uh, not by a long shot. [...]

Alrighty, next time I see more vapid whinging that the press was so so terribly unfair and wrong to pick up on Gallaudet administration’s claim that the protesters believed JKF “not deaf enough” and mealy mouthed claims that “oh we’re all in this together, we all love each other” I’m gonna point straight here and [...]

This is a subject I’ll doubtless return to again. I’ve commented here about mainstreaming deaf students, Moi had very good observations why it’s vital to have ASL-speaking teachers (and students) and not just interpreters floating about to “give access.” Both Banjo and I pointed out some of the predation problems with both residential/boarding [...]

What I find interesting is when I think back on the speech therapy lessons I used to get, and when I listen to other peoples’ stories with speech therapy. It becomes clear to me that hearing people consider verbal speech of such high importance that they fail to consider a cost to benefit [...]

Welp. Today I went in and picked up a pair of brand-spanking-new hearing aids. I also made the leap from analog to digital. (About time, considering my professional occupation ) I’m very pleased with the results so far — the HA are comfortable and the sound quality is good. [...]

This time I’m going to point you toward a number of videos, some clips others much longer, but I think all food for thought. Get the popcorn!
Swedish Deaf TV Perspektiv on Laurent, S.D.. This consists of interviews of deaf folk from all walks of life.
This one’s a clip of a longer show that [...]

Note: “You” in this article is anyone who is part of a majority, dominant group. Hearies, for example; non-wheelchair users for another. White people. Men. And so on.
Now and then I get asked to help justify or explain why diversity is a Good Thing. Now, understand, I am [...]

The question of whether or not Gallaudet “should” be ASL only or not is an interesting one. It’s important, I think to first understand Gallaudet’s place in history. After all, it is not the only school for the deaf. But it is the oldest. It began as a deaf school [...]

After the sturm und drang of yesterday, I wanted to delve into some articles, blogs, and folks on the net that I’ve found very interesting and providing lots of food for thought…
One of the first blogs I did come across was Deaf in the City. He has a number of very thoughtful posts and [...]

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What I want to do with this post is to put together some background on myself and some of my thoughts on these things. I don’t want to feel like I’m continually harping on certain subjects and such, but I find that people interpret my [...]