Hey, y’all! I decided to move my deaf related posts on LiveJournal to deafread’s WP-MU blog, for a variety of reasons. First, I do know WP very well and like using it, second while LJ suits my purposes for a personal journal, it blows chunks with comments, especially from non LJ folks, and […]

The author of the Alone in the Mainstream book was on, talking about finally realizing others like her out there…very cool! The music stuff’s on now, and I had to laugh when the guy was talking about how they make the music loud loud loud so everyone can feel the music…and he wonders Gosh, […]

So, I’m trying to watch Through Deaf Eyes…and it appears that my cable provider IS NOT TRANSMITTING ANY CAPTIONS FOR **ANY** OF THE CHANNELS IT IS BROADCASTING.
Oh, boy, are they going to get an EARFUL from me first thing tomorrow morning. IT HAD BETTER BE BACK ON BY THE NEXT BROADCAST. Yes, according […]

I went to a local meet & greet for deaf folks last Friday. Most of the people seemed to be hearing (interpreters in progress I suppose), but there was one guy there who was a real story teller (told a couple of hilarious stories, including one between a dad and his little son, who […]

Forbidden Signs is a book that traces the history of sign language in the United States and how and why oralism attempted to obliterate signing and replace it with lip reading and speech. As the author himself notes, the history is quite complex and even though he takes a detailed look at various aspects […]

Snurfed from 8th Nerve:

Your Blogging Type is Confident and Insightful

You’ve got a ton of brain power, and you leverage it into brilliant blog.
Both creative and logical, you come up with amazing ideas and insights.
A total perfectionist, you find yourself revising and rewriting posts a lot of the time.
You blog for yourself - and you don’t […]

I’m still thinking about whether I want to run with an acronym like DOH I’m afraid I’m a product of my times since I keep seeing that as “D’oh” a la Homer Simpson.
But - Deaf of Hearing — there are many of us and we’re quite a varied lot. There’s many of […]

This entry is sparked in part by seeing people, even well intentioned ones, ask the most inane and intrusive questions about the nature of deafness of deaf people or a group of deaf people. It’s certainly not limited to deafness; I see this same behavior with respect anything that’s “different” from the norm.
The person […]

…in light of recent conversations around here. (I do plan on a proper review, but I happened across this gem just now.)
From Forbidden Signs, pp 103:
Another measure of the oralist preoccupation with efficiency was the support they gave to a national movement to rationalize the spelling of English words. The late-nineteenth-century spelling reform […]

This has been an interesting dialogue. Although I’ve already weighed in with a couple comments over at Toby’s blog where he posted about it here and here, I found that I wanted to examine this in more detail so rather than clutter up a comments section, I’m posting here…
In a nutshell, a deaf woman […]