Thanks to The World in Words, I learned about “Scottish Finger-Signing.” Apparently Deaf children in the Scottish Highlands used to grow up using exclusively fingerspelling, rather than sign language. Now, TWIW uses the word “language” to describe this, and I disagree with that – it is a manual code for English, not a proper language [...]
Posts Tagged ‘deafness’
A Deaf Woman’s Experience of the Tohoku Earthquake
Normally H3 videos are not transcribed – they are news for deaf people. But I thought it was important to share the experience of a Deaf person and what she went through during the Tohoku earthquake. This reinforces why it is important to continue to improve services for deaf people in Japan. If you want [...]
NTUT and Gallaudet
(Posted this on the Gallaudet blog, but of course I’m copying it here!) Hey everybody! I am at my internship in Japan, and I thought I would tell you a little bit about the differences between Gallaudet and Tsukuba University of Technology. The academic culture is a little different here. In the US, it is [...]
Basic Rights: Hearing, Marriage
My friend Sara, who just got a cochlear implant last week, posed the following suggestion on Twitter and wanted to know if it was offensive, or more like comparing apples and oranges: Deaf people protesting others choice to get a CI is like ppl protesting gay marriage. I don’t really find it offensive at all, [...]
IP Relay Used for Death Threat
The latest issue of SIGNews has the following story: IP Relay Relayed a Death Threat Call against 13-Year-OldA local television channel in Boston, Mass., reported on April 25 that a death threat was made through an IP relay provider to a thirteen year old girl. Lisa Butler, the mother of Angela, said to Channel 5 [...]
Cute Silent Worker Article
Deaf Cats. Mr. Harrison Weir, president of the National Cat Club, England, says in his book “Our Cat,” that a white cat of the long or the short-haired breed is likely to be deaf. Should it have blue eyes, the fancy color, it is almost certain to be deaf. Mr Weir, at a cat show, [...]