Came across this: Braille Makes a Comeback
(To read the full article, you’d have to sign up for a free registration.)
But the part of interest was this:
Among some students, families, and educators, use of Braille was seen as a sort of failure, some advocates say. Among the visually impaired, about 90 percent are believed to […]

So a week or two ago I signed up with www.yourmail.com which is a free service that intercepts your voice mails, transcribes them, and emails them to you. You can still retrieve them from your voicemail as usual, but you can opt to get a copy in the email or even have it texted to […]

There’s a fair furor at present over DBC, the details of which I hardly need to recount. But I came across this, and it has got me thinking:
The deep division between the subgroups reflects the contrasting core values of deafness. For the oral deaf and users of c.i. people, being able to hear is […]