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| Sorry for long leave of absence. Been interning at WPSD and MSD Frederick, got 2 weeks left. Anyways, I've been watching many very good Vlogs and reading Blogs about our wave to make the world understand that being Deaf is OK. But being Deaf itself is broken up, and seperated sometimes, into different types of deafness, CI, oralism, Cued speech, SEE, PSE, ASL, Hard of Hearing, Big D Deaf and the list goes on. All of these can be easily identified through communication method or what technology method is used except for two major groups that is most common when a hearing aide is involved, Deaf or Hard of hearing. This is my confusion, how do we identify who is "Hard of Hearing" or who is "Deaf" if they wear a hearing aide. I think we are all Deaf and the word "Hard of Hearing" should be erased entirely because it has confused society and made too many misconceptions upon the hearing soceity. There is no way to measure who is hard of hearing or not except for the person themself choosing to name themself Deaf or Hard of Hearing. This confuses both Deaf and Hearing societies, mostly hearing soceity, because the next Deaf or Hard of Hearing person they meet, could be 100 percent different in their skills/ability to hear and speak. I think the world would be better off if we were all just simply Deaf and if the person has the ability to hear or speak, they can make it known on their own. I'm tired of society treating hard of hearing people as an elevated level within the "ladder of Deafness", when there are many Deaf people who cannot speak or hear, or have chosen not to, being treated or viewed lower than their hard of hearing counterparts. What do you think? | | |
| I'm not going to go into detail on xanga but the Oregon Department of Education decided to fire OSD's director Jane Mulholland before the end of the year 2 weeks ago. This has struck a very low blow to the Deaf community as Jane was a very respected director of the 136 year old school. It would help very much if you could do a bit of research on the issue on your own and then email a short passage about your opinion or feelings on the importance of a respected leader for Deaf schools across the nation and especially OSD right now. Send them to prdmama10@msn.com. Thanks to those who look into the stituation. | | |
| Cement, lower speed limit When watching the news over the last couple of days, two ideas have come to mind, which I think would have a great impact on our society as it functions during peak times. The first being that there should be an invention of a type of surface material that can be used on airstrips that prevents it from freezing or having ice be formed on top of it that would allow for air travel to operate as normal year round. The other would be to lower the speed limit during peak travel times to lower the likelihood of accidents due to high speed lane adjustments etc. What do you think? | | |
| I never knew there were so many good books on Deaf culture, Deaf history, or written by Deaf people etc... During my year and a half at Western Oregon University's graduate program in Deaf education, I have been required to read quite a few books which I will list later, along with those which I found on my own and read. After disscussing with a few classmates who graduated from Gallaudet as well as I did, along with other peers who graduated from different Deaf schools, I was bothered by the fact that almost all of us had never been required or encouraged to read any books on Deafness until our last years at Gallaudet or even until our years at WOU's grad program. These are books that I would have loved to have been encouraged to read while in High School, some of these books could have expanded my knowledge on Deafness as well as help me make better educated choices in relation to my Deafness. I hope that future educators of the Deaf will understand that it is more important for their k-12 Deaf students to read books related to Deafness than it is to read books suggested and encouraged by hearing superiors who don't understand the issues revolving around our Deaf youth. I for one, will make it a requirement that my students read Deaf related books, magazines, newspaper articles and so forth. You should do the same. Books, magazines, newspapers Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World by Leah Hager Cohen - revolves around growing up at lexington. A Place of their Own: Creating the Deaf Communi8ty in America by John Vickrey Van Cleve and Barry Crouch Inside Deaf Culture by Carol Padden & Tom Hmphries the mask of benevolence by harlan lane Deaf Like Me by Thomas Spradley and James Spradley - about his daughter growing up oral then switching to ASL DeafNation - online Signews - Only major newspaper I know of, more out there? Cheap to subscribe to. There are alot more, but all I have access to at the moment, the others are in my box in storage since I'm in PA for student teaching... Tata | | |
| I see half the teams in the NFL switching QB's, trying to find a way to win, other QB's getting hurt and I wonder should Stefan Lefors be out on the field for one of those teams? I don't know all the details, but I'm gonna be the ignorant blonde and say, "We want Lefors, we want lefors, we want lefors". If QB's from unknown college teams can start for some NFL teams, a QB who led his team to a 11-1 season at Lousiville sure can do it. | | |
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