My family signs boring
This is not to say they sign boringly. No, they typically sign with great gusto, with the sort of emphasis one associates…
Category: ASL Dictionary
Sign language works like a charm
For years I mocked those who asked if I could sign. Didn’t know any deaf people, did I? (No, I didn’t even…
All roads lead to ALDA
At ALDAcon II, my first contact with Association of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA) up-close-and-personal, I met many people and swapped stories and feelings about becoming…
I used (remote) Real-Time Reporting to survive my Ph.D. research
For my PhD research, I struggled for months trying to think of ways to avoid a fundamental barrier: I am deaf and…
Defining deafness
People become deaf at different ages. Hearing loss can occur gradually or suddenly. It can be mild or moderate or it can…
I heard a song today, oh boy…
Today, the radio gave forth with a tuggingly familiar bass line. It was one of the “lesser” tunes not played too often,…
Deaf Persona Non Grata
Jazmine Talosig, by all accounts, is a bright young girl that loves photography, dancing, cooking and helping out at home while her…
The Glowing Blue Light
For the first eight years after becoming profoundly deaf, I tried living in the hearing milieu denying my hearing lossand passing as…
Closed captioning!!!
Do I get excited about television captioning? What would you think if you couldn’t count on the program producer to provide a sound…
Deafened adults: fallen through the cracks
THE HEARING BEGINNING There seems to be a lot of assumptions about adult-onset deafness. The first assumption is that adults become hard…