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’s perceptions and show that, “Deaf [...]
In 2006, Wright was tried for killing Darlene VanderGiesen and using a chainsaw to dismember her body and was convicted. She received the life sentence, escaping the death penalty sentence.. Wright is bringing up many issues, including the court’s refusal to approve her request for a Deaf certified interpreter (CDI). Daphne Wright’s appeal goes before the [...]
Some of the Deaf children don’t do well in mainstreamed programs. Often the regular teachers don’t have any formal training to educate the Deaf students. An increasing shortage of qualified interpreters impedes with the public education system’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 [...]
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 [...]
For some time, discussions about parental rights vs Deaf children’s right were held on the Deaf Cyberspace. Most of the discourses were illuminating and meaningful. We are actually starting to understand each other out better with less cyberbullying. Some people insist that all Deaf babies and children have a right to ASL. Actually, no. According [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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