Some of you probably be interested in attending the upcoming presentation by Laurent Clerc's great, great, great granddaughter, Susan Galloway in the Nation's Capitol area (Washington, DC and Germantown, MD) next April 10th and 11th...

I called CACVRS at CACVRS.TV. At first, it rang 4 times and then it hung up for no reason. So I tried again and it was dialing for about 20 seconds. Then boom, a male interpreter showed up. The conversation went smoothly. There was...

Implantable hearing aids have been around for awhile now. Until now, though, they have been "experimental" in the United States. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its first approval for an implantable hearin...

Should we have an official BSL Recognition Day, it appears it last happened on 18th March 2006. What came of it? Could we introduce an awareness day for every year…It should be recognised and would support and promote B.S.L. teachi...

The Paralympics are held every four years and are open to athletes with visual and physical disabilities. The 2010 Winter Paralympics are currently going on (until March 21st) and are being held in Vancouver and Whistler, British Co...

Every now and again we receive a response to The Rebuttal that reminds us how important it is that we continue to speak out and confront our audience.  Sometimes you will agree with us and sometimes you will not. But the following r...

I am Siobhan Brindley-Lewis, 24, from Birmingham. I am the first deaf person to enter the Miss Universe Great Britain competition. The competition was held last year on the 3rd May 2009 in Birmingham. I didn’t win the title of Mi...

I read, on RLMDEAF's blog, the term "Uncle Tom" deaf individuals. What? Who exactly would be considered a deaf Uncle Tom? Would that be me, because I am not culturally deaf and tend to be more "hearing" according to some people? I a...

At some schools, their intercom will make three low tone beeps before someone makes an announcement. "Beep, beep, beep. Goooooood morning! Mah wah wah the call bwah how you can mwah wah blah blah . . . ." It freaks me out because...

Birnbaum Interpreting Services (BIS), a Deaf-owned corporation, was formed in 1995 and has quickly become one of the nation's largest and most respected interpreting services.BIS has been recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the ...

Today the FDA approved the first completely implantable hearing aid, which is designed to treat sensorineural hearing loss.According to the press release and this LA Times blog post, the Esteem is a hearing system - with a sound pro...

Even if you are not British, you may appreciate the humor, acting, and film quality in this new YouTube-based deaf comedy, "The Fingerspellers." I just watched it. The producers are promising a total of eight episodes of this Godfat...

I thought that I should add more random stupid things to my blog. This is an animation I made when I was supposed to be studying for my final exams (a few years ago while in NYC). It is based on a true story. The evil pigeon pooped...

Created by (e and one of her students using Paint program. I am surprised that Paint has ASL font! (sorry it's so tiny). (e ...

Every St. Patrick's Day surely remind us much of systematic oppression and societial prejudices against deaf people and its use of sign language over decades. http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2009/03/17/irish-americans-racism-whiten...

In the celebration of St. Patrick's Day 2010, Deaf actor Bernard Bragg shared many exhilarated stories about his visit to Ireland in the 1970's. From the NAD's deceased annual publication, Bernard Bragg recalled how he encountered ...

After reading the AOL daily news feature on the revolutionary device for the visually deprived individuals. I said to myself "Aw, kinda great for someone to regain hir own vision ability with the use of technological marvel". This i...