Quoting award-winning Deaf Vlogger Blogger Amy Cohen Efron:
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Music and the Deaf was started 2 decades ago by a remarkable man named Dr. Paul Whittaker. Paul, who has a music degree from Oxford University, has been deaf since birth and profoundly deaf since the age of two. In 2007, he became an Officer of the British Empire. Oh yeah, and he trains choirs in his spare time.
Drew was born in September 2006 with profound hearing loss in both ears, which means he is deaf. In the summer of 2007, when he was 8½ months old, he became the youngest child in Ohio to receive simultaneous, bilateral cochlear implants. TurnOnMyEars.blogspot.com, written by Drew’s mom and dad, is a record of their efforts to “turn on” Drew’s ears and educate him with an auditory verbal philosophy.
Join LaRonda as she shares her experience of being the lone Deafie at a family Christmas gathering, and how she coped. (ASL videoclip)
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Transcript:
Hello.
Christmas is now over. All finished. I’m curious, however, if any of you Deaf folks out there had the same experience I did. I was pretty isolated. Why?
Well, we had a family gathering of about 20 people, schmoozing and socializing. There were children and adults, old and young, and every age in between. I came in and was wished a Merry Christmas and glad tidings. I took my coat off, put down my bags, passed out the gifts, and then… no chats.
I felt pretty bored. It was so hard to lip-read. I felt lost. Conversations were happening all around the room, and mouths were flapping. I looked around the room often, hunting for Click to continue »
Stepmom Shares Life with Deaf Twins
by Karen Putz, and guest blogger Barbara Desmarais
[Ed’s note: In addition to being an insightful, talented and entertaining freelance writer, Karen is also a deaf mom to three deaf and hard of hearing children. Her husband is deaf, too. Their cute little Westie “Kaycie” can hear a rabbit breathing a half-mile away.]
Deaf Tour Guides For Deaf People?
by Craig Grimes, reporting from Nicaragua
Ever since I started working in inclusive tourism for people with disabilities, I have always wanted to provide tours to deaf people in sign language. This is relatively easy if the tours that you are providing are to people from the country where the tours are based, as the language is the same. The problems begin to arise when Click to continue »
About the film
Sight Lines is a 23-minute documentary film that examines and demystifies the practice of providing access for blind and visually impaired actors.
The film, written and directed by Tim Gebbels, follows a group of blind and visually impaired actors through a typical day of rehearsal, and demonstrates a variety of options for accommodating access requirements, such as making the stage and working space accessible and providing access to written scripts. Click to continue »
