Being that I’m a paralegal, though I don’t work as one, I went looking for the court filings so that I could see them myself. They don’t appear to be stored online, unfortunately. I emailed the public defender’s office with a query about the filings. Here’s what she said:
Thank you for your [...]

UpdateThe public defender for Wright is at tsmith@minnehahacounty.org.
Her lawyers are preparing a defense for her that basically says that she’s too stupid, on account of being deaf, to be properly tried for anything:
Court papers filed by Daphne Wright’s lawyers say that people who’ve been deaf since early childhood have severely limited vocabularies and a hard [...]

OK, warning. I’m in the middle of The Mask of Benevolence, and this is a really thought provoking book. It’s excellent.
And I can already tell I will never again take seriously any non-signing, hearing psychologist or psychiatrist babbling on the subject of deaf children, ever. Never liked ‘em much to begin with.
But [...]

I said I’d put together a post on cochlear implants earlier this month. First a disclaimer: I don’t have one, nor do I have plans to get one. I’m fairly neutral about them although I do find it annoying many hearing people assume I’d get one at the drop of a hat.
So, what [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]