From news release: WGBH has received a $600,000 grant from the Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to support its efforts to make handheld media accessible for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Titled “Captioning Solutions for Handheld Media and Mobile Devices” (award number H133G070122), the grant provides WGBH’s …
August 2007 archive
Cochlear Implant Batteries
By miracle, I decided to clean out my office closet where I found Cochlear stuff. I had forgotten my new CI came with rechargeable batteries (you have the option of using disposables and rechargeables). The nice thing about rechargeables is that you take the whole thing out and replace it with another. This as opposed …
Profoundly Deaf and the Phone
Kokonut Pundit took phone orders while working for Domino’s Pizza. It reminded me of a job I applied for while a teen doing gift wrapping at a department store. First, I had to take one of those personality tests — I had never seen this before in my life and didn’t pass. I don’t know …
PCAs: Personal Communication Aids
Kids today have it made. They don’t have to wear the ugly hearing aids and other hearing devices that some of us wore while growing up. Beige, bulky and uncool. It’s not just the Baby Boomers — but many generations that have no problem wearing glasses, but do all they can to hide their hearing …
Calling TTYs
I don’t remember where I saw this Microsoft form, but it had a field I had never seen on a form before — at least, not from a company that doesn’t deal with products primarily for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. I’ve put all but one TTY into the closet where they are turning yellow in …
Evelyn Glennie, Percussionist
Evelyn Glennie makes a full-time living as a percussionist. According to her site, “Evelyn is the first person in musical history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist.” And she’s been profoundly deaf since age 12. Her site doesn’t say much about deafness — and that’s fabulous only because it …
Audiology Point of View
Here’s a great post from Deaf World as Eye See It of an interview between a Deaf vlogger and a hearing audiologist. When I started this blog — my goal was to educate people what life is like from my perspective as a person born deaf. With the diversity of backgrounds, hearing loss histories and …
Doubles Tennis
For the first time, I’m joining a tennis team… two of them, actually. The coaches and team captains are working to pair us with partners. So I have to start thinking about tips to help my partner communicate with me during the game. Funny thing, I can’t recall how I communicate with my volleyball, basketball, …