Mishka Zena

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 […]

My eyes filling with tears, I feel deep pain for Jack Barr while he shared his horrific experiences at the oral school he attended. Too many innocent deaf children have received brutal treatment at the hands of hearing educators and speech therapists trying to force them to speak and hear/lipread.  Children’s hands being tied, their mouths scrubbed […]

In my last post DBC: Confusing Messages, I asked for clarification about the statements of a DBC representative quoted in the newspaper article as audism and cochlear implants weren’t mentioned in the mission statement of Deaf Bilingual Coalition:
“The two groups will bring their competing agendas to Milwaukee in separate national conferences this week: one that views […]

Commentary: This is a post created last Feb when people accused the ASL vloggers of not being accessible to non-ASL users. I am reposting this as I feel some hearing and oral deaf people don’t fully understand the issues. Some of the ASL users have never achieved full linguistic competency in written English because they […]

When I was little, I was confused with my own identity as my parents took me to St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf for oralism program and I never understood why American Sign Language is such a forbidden language. I remember the kindergarten very well and I stayed there for about two years after I […]