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	<title>Mishka Zena &#187; Communication</title>
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		<title>Deaf Oral AGBell Representatives Using CART During AFA/AGBADHH Meeting?</title>
		<link>http://www.mishkazena.com/2009/04/13/deaf-oral-agbell-representatives-using-cart-during-afaagbadhh-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mishka Zena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interpreting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While reading AFA&#8217;s letter requesting for a copy of the CART transcription from the AFA/AGBADHH meeting two weeks ago, apparently on the behalf of two deaf oral AGBADHH representatives, a thought came to my mind.  Why was the CART services needed in the first place?
Wasn&#8217;t there an interpreter in the room, voicing for Deaf AFA leaders. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>Video Showing A Cop Breaking Deaf Driver&#8217;s Nose During A Traffic Stop</title>
		<link>http://www.mishkazena.com/2009/04/09/video-showing-a-cop-breaking-deaf-drivers-nose-during-a-traffic-stop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mishkazena.com/2009/04/09/video-showing-a-cop-breaking-deaf-drivers-nose-during-a-traffic-stop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mishka Zena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ASL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
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To see the video clip of the cop smashing Deaf driver&#8217;s face into the rear windshield,  Video On Demand: Latest News Video &#124; WFAA.com
It began with a routine traffic stop due to excessive speeding over one year ago.  The Deaf driver, Christopher Ferrell, attempted to retrieve his wallet to show the identification card regarding his deafness. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oral Deaf Writer Attacks Luke of Amazing Race and Deaf People</title>
		<link>http://www.mishkazena.com/2009/03/16/oral-deaf-writer-attacks-luke-of-amazing-race-and-deaf-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mishkazena.com/2009/03/16/oral-deaf-writer-attacks-luke-of-amazing-race-and-deaf-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mishka Zena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ASL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An oral Deaf writer attacked Luke of Amazing Race and Deaf people in her op-ed article First Person: I can so talk!  Many deaf people can, despite what you might hear elsewhere
Apparently the fact that Luke was interpreted during an interview as saying that he wanted to disprove people&#8217;s perceptions and show that, &#8220;Deaf can [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>52 Deaf Alumni To Sue Deaf School For Physical and Sexual Abuses</title>
		<link>http://www.mishkazena.com/2009/03/10/52-deaf-alumni-to-sue-deaf-school-for-physical-and-sexual-abuses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mishkazena.com/2009/03/10/52-deaf-alumni-to-sue-deaf-school-for-physical-and-sexual-abuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mishka Zena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deaf School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judicial System]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mishkazena.com/?p=1771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Former students at a school for the deaf in Saskatchewan were expected to file a class action lawsuit on Tuesday morning, alleging they were victims of physical and sexual abuse.
Regina lawyer Tony Merchant told CBC News on Monday that he represents 52 people who attended the government-run R.J.D. Williams Provincial School for the Deaf in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Bother Saving Deaf Schools?</title>
		<link>http://www.mishkazena.com/2009/02/10/why-bother-saving-deaf-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mishkazena.com/2009/02/10/why-bother-saving-deaf-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mishka Zena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deaf Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mishkazena.com/?p=1618</guid>
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Some of the Deaf children don&#8217;t do well in mainstreamed programs.  Often the regular teachers  don&#8217;t have any formal training to educate the Deaf students. An increasing shortage of qualified interpreters impedes with the public education system&#8217;s ability to provide accessible education to these students.  For mainstreamed Deaf solitaire, a lack of social opportunities due to communication barriers adds to their sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>We Are Deaf: One And Many</title>
		<link>http://www.mishkazena.com/2009/01/22/we-are-deaf-one-and-many/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mishkazena.com/2009/01/22/we-are-deaf-one-and-many/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mishka Zena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ADA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deaf Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gallaudet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask not what your Deaf Community can do for you; Ask what you can do for your Deaf Community.
 
1979-1984 Filed and won a Department of Justice complaint against D.C. Traffic Court for their refusal to provide interpreters for Deaf defendants in the Traffic Court. A major victory in the pre ADA days.
 
Advocated for a Deaf patient [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Low Function! Pea Brain! No Good! Full of Sh*t!</title>
		<link>http://www.mishkazena.com/2008/12/31/low-function-pea-brain-no-good-full-of-sht/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mishkazena.com/2008/12/31/low-function-pea-brain-no-good-full-of-sht/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mishka Zena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deaf Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deaf Cyberworld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/?p=1366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This involves certain dynamics observed in both the blogs and vlogs in the Deaf Cyberspace.  But the concepts also apply to everybody in real life, both hearing and deaf communities.
Name calling, insults and put downs are considered emotionally abusive, designed to make the person feels bad about oneself.  Low Functioning, Pea Brain, Stupid, and No Good [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nasty Judge Made Deaf Woman Cry</title>
		<link>http://www.mishkazena.com/2008/11/30/nasty-judge-made-deaf-woman-cry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mishkazena.com/2008/11/30/nasty-judge-made-deaf-woman-cry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mishka Zena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ASL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/?p=1253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A deaf Edmonton woman is claiming discrimination after running out of court in tears yesterday when a judge refused to vary an order making her pay $150 in costs.
Kimberly Wood is upset because she claims the court costs were the result of her not being able to provide her own sign language interpreter for an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Disagreements Are Allowed</title>
		<link>http://www.mishkazena.com/2008/11/21/disagreements-are-allowed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mishkazena.com/2008/11/21/disagreements-are-allowed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mishka Zena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deaf Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deaf School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oralism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/?p=1212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Disagreements are permitted. This community is way too diverse to maintain an uniform thinking with the same beliefs, ideas, and philosophies. Unlike the other cultures, with the exception of gay culture, this culture isn&#8217;t hereditary for the majority of its stakeholders. Most join this exclusive group when one masters its language after finding out that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deaf People Spoke Out And Their State Heard Them.</title>
		<link>http://www.mishkazena.com/2008/11/12/deaf-people-spoke-out-and-the-state-heard-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mishkazena.com/2008/11/12/deaf-people-spoke-out-and-the-state-heard-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mishka Zena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ADA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deaf Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deafblind Community]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/?p=1170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an example of effective advocacy. Congratulations, VAD and other Deaf and HoH people who have spoken up against the planned budget cuts of Mental Health Services, for the Deaf, HoH, and Deaf-Blind consumers. MZ
UPDATE: Cuts in Mental Health Services
 
On October 29, 2008, NVRC News shared a letter written by the Virginia Association of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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