Archive for the 'Deafblind Community' Category

Deaf People Spoke Out And Their State Heard Them.

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

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 [...]

Wait! Blogs Aren’t Fully Accessible, Either!

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

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 [...]

Deaf-Blind And VideoPhone

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Distant cousins. Last night, a Canadian friend asked me on MSN whether I had Videophone. I said no, being one of the fast diminishing number of Deaf Canadians without videophone, a device that has changed the way Deaf people communicate with one another by way of video conferencing made possible to the public. I told [...]