I just came across this very interesting article on yahoo.com: Many doctors stay mum on controversial care: study
This makes me wonder if this incidence rate is higher for cochlear implant doctors, audiologists and other health care providers? Perhaps this is why there is not wide-spread knowledge on American Sign Language and deaf culture among hearing [...]
A couple of individuals left a comment here about Hands and Voices.
Newborn hearing screening is now mandatory but we are finding gaps in the follow up procedures. Parents are sometimes not getting the results of the testing or they are not following up with another test with a pediactric audiologist. We also have no [...]
There was a discussion on DeafDC.com and Chris Heuer proposed an excellent idea and I’m going to quote what he wrote:
Just imagine what we could do with an effective interactive website that gave parents ALL of the information in an unbiased manner… and an INTERESTING manner. For example, did you see Elissa Abenchuchan’s recent [...]
This is cross-posted to my personal blog on The Deaf Edge, but I think it’s appropriate for me to post it on here as well. There’s a slight furor in the deaf community about the LA Times article about a deaf football player at California School of the Deaf - Riverside.
This reminded me of an [...]
Please submit ideas on here for what you think we all should do to make Netflix, Blockbuster Online, and the mass media to caption everything. Many of us already sent comments to the FCC.
My ideas are:
Send a letter to every major metro newspaper in the country
Twenty-four hour boycott of television
Enlist Hollywood insiders for assistance [...]
