Mishka Zena

My response is a loud YES to the possibility of a Deaf blogger being sued.  I can vouch for this personally as I’ve been threatened with lawsuits. I was asked to cover this issue by another blogger in response to the supoena of Kathleen Seidel for her post criticizing the actions of personal injury lawyers going [...]

PENDING LAWSUIT AGAINST SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Several law firms across the country are involved in a lawsuit on behalf of people with disabilities who work for the Social Security Administration (SSA).  These SSA employees believe that SSA has discriminated against them in the promotion process.  If you work for SSA and believe that you have [...]

Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 1:00 am Eastern Time Memo from Gallaudet Board Chair re MSCHE and presidential search Board of Trustees COLLEGE HALL 800 FLORIDA AVE. NE WASHINGTON, DC 20002-3695 April 1, 2008 Dear Campus Community: As you know, the Middle States Commission on Higher (MSCHE) requested that Gallaudet submit a status report that documents [...]

A controversial topic naturally spawns endless debates. This UK bill banning the selection of “defective” embryos for IVF is no exception.  While pursuing this subject yesterday, this headline caught my eye yesterday.  As you can see for yourself, this is a misleading and ambiguous headline. Yet, we already saw at least one commenter agreeing that Deaf people shouldn’t [...]

When this eugenics bill at UK was first brought to our attention, they were greeted with moral outrage and concerns by Deaf Community along with other disability groups.  Still fresh in their minds were the the horrific American and Nazi Eugenics performed over half a century ago with the involuntary sterilization of the ’physically defective” and “morally [...]

Deliberate dissemination on NCSD foiled Protest and poor conditions:   Just a friendly warning: there’s a lot of propaganda being disseminated on various blogs  and now newspapers. It appears that some commenters are trying to sanitize the school by invalidating the issues that spurred the protest and doing extensive cover-ups.   We all can see people jumping on [...]

NCSD Parent: The staff is not allowed to tell us of situations that we should know about.  I am confused when I’m told they aren’t allowed to talk to us.  What does that mean?  Why are there secrets?  Why were staff members sent home for helping the students with the protest?  Why has the school [...]

What has propelled the students to protest?   1)  The are fed up with teachers, staff, and administrators who can not sign fluently.  Some of them have a wonderful attitudes but just can’t sign and they want to get far in their education.   They want to be understood not teaching some people how to sign.  [...]

 While parents and students listed many problems, there were recurring themes. Communication One concern voiced at the meeting was Lindsey and Jody Self, director of residential services, were not able to communicate with students. Another communication problem is parents said they were not informed about what happens at NCSD. Tracy Eubanks, mother of Tiffany “Pebbles” [...]

NCSD director steps down By Heather Sanders    Morganton – The North Carolina School for the Deaf director stepped down from her position Thursday. Department of Health and Human Services Superintendent Dwight Pearson made the announcement to a group of parents and students that Dr. Linda Lindsey would be reassigned to Office of Education Services [...]