Know your RIGHTS as a Deaf/ Hard of HearingPerson
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Danielle N.Posted
Mon 09 Aug 2010 5:10pm
is profoundly deaf ask me for help. She wants to volunteer somewhere and they wont provide an interpreter for her. I was furious when she told me this. I contacted the American's Disability Act to ask what OUR RIGHTS ARE.
Truthfully, I dont even know my rights as a deaf person. So in a way im glad that I called because I wouldn't of known all this information
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Re: Mishka...Deaf Culture-Deaf Community??
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Jodi Cutler Del DottorePosted
Thu 27 Nov 2008 10:09am
In Mishka's postAgainst ASL and Deaf Culture, Karen Mayes Says:
*whistle*
I really don’t have a problem with ASL (we use it predominately at home) and Deaf Culture... life, not thinking about Deaf Culture, etc, just like most of people just living. Deaf culture is really part of Deaf community, nothing more, as well as oral deaf people, CI
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Proposal for Equal Opportunity for Deaf, hard of hearing, late- deafened and deaf blind Americans
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Danielle N.Posted
Sun 11 Jan 2009 4:21pm
PROPOSAL FOR LEADERSHIP AND PUBLIC POLICY TO ENSURE EQUAL ACCESS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR DEAF, HARD OF HEARING, LATE-DEAFENED AND DEAF-BLIND AMERICANS!!!!
Today, I got this email. Some of you probably are aware of this but for those of you that arent
CLICK HERE.
Hope you all had a nice weekend. Hope you have a great week ahead!
Smile*
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Signing to all deaf / Deaf people!
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Funny Old LifePosted
Fri 21 Nov 2008 2:04pm
Middlesex University researcher Catherine Carlton wants to contact members of the Deaf community n a project looking at the importance of BSL to Deaf identity. The research aims to highlight the importance of British Sign Language to the Deaf community and explore Deaf Identities.
if you would like to help by completing the questionnaire
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Informal Comparison/Contrast of Deaf culture to deaf culture
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kimPosted
Tue 13 Oct 2009 12:00am
, but several good discussions are coming out of this. Looking down toward the second to the last comment, Gamas posted a series of common Deaf cultural traits, which I will relate to ‘deaf’ cultural traits.
I will list them.
Attention getting behavior . . . when deaf people try to get attention of other people in a room when lights fails
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A Letter from a Deaf Lawyer for Non-LPC Deaf Counselors
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Candace A. McCulloughPosted
Thu 06 Aug 2009 11:00pm
As many of you already know, Deaf counselors are few and far between. The reason for this, in part, may be due to the fact that the national licensure exam for counselors is largely English-centric. Below, we are reprinting a letter from a Deaf lawyer, who is working to rectify the situation, and hopefully, enable more Deaf counselors to obtain
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Deaf World 2009 - in celebration of Hampshire Deaf Association’s 130th anniversary
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DeafBlogPosted
Wed 23 Sep 2009 10:50pmDeaf World 2009, the largest exhibition of its kind in the south will be held this year at The Rose Bowl, Botley Road, West End, Southampton on Thursday 1st October, 10am – 4pm. Entry is free and everyone is welcome.
The Deaf World exhibition, solely sponsored by HJS Solutions, is a nationally recognised forum for private, public and voluntary
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Deaf or deaf?
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Heather ..Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:07pm
One of the many questions I ask myself about Ethan’s future is whether or not he will call himself Deaf (with a capital D) or deaf (with a small d). Essentially, will he be able to embrace his deafness in a culturally meaningful way, or will he just assimilate into the hearing world? Maybe he won’t call himself deaf at all. What we do now
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Deaf or Not-Deaf: Who is the More Qualified ASL Teacher?
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Jodi Cutler Del DottorePosted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 6:39pm
on Rachel Coleman's Emmy Nomination . I'm kind of proud of myself because my first reaction was to "go off" regarding the importance of Signing Time for hearing mothers of deaf children. Then, strangely, I took a moment to actually reflect on the commenters' perspectives. These were the two comments that I found thought-provoking:
Deaf258 said
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Hearing Loss, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Products & Devices for Deaf
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Hear World CommunicationsPosted
Sat 20 Nov 2010 11:04am
Hearing Loss which is also known as "deafness", "hearing impairment "is the condition in which a human is unable to hear or detect the sound. It can be fully and partial... symptoms of Conductive and Sensor. Causes of Central hearing loss are tumors & the diseases which affects the nerve cells.
The most common cause of deafness or hearing problem
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