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 …
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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 …
Writing with a Deaf Accent
Folks, I am just the messenger here! Found this discussion on MeFi that I had to share. Check out the deaf blogs and you see many write well. However, I did have a couple of pen pals when I was a child and they wrote in ASL-speak. For the most part, it was easy to …
How to Sound Confident on the Phone
For those of us who make our calls through the relay — maybe we should send this article on sounding confident on a phone call to our relay operators 🙂 Actually, it might be useful to those who make voice carryover calls (VCO). One useful tip in the article is to press # after leaving …
Deaf Comedian on a Bus
Captioned video of a deaf comedian doing his routine on a bus. To be honest, I didn’t get his jokes.
Deaf and deaf Discussion
Ben and Dennis have an interesting discussion going about Deaf and deaf, and not deaf enough. I know that I’m not a part of the Deaf culture, and that’s OK. I just try to get along with everyone deaf, hard-of-hearing or Deaf. I respect everyone’s communication and culture preferences. When I like a person as …
Accents
What American accent do you have? Deaf, of course, but that wasn’t an option and it didn’t stop me from completing the quiz. The site identified my accent as Midland: You have a Midland accent is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, …
Talent Vs. Technology
The Dallas Morning News [may require free registration] had a fascinating article about how much technology helps athletes. For instance, Masazumi Soejima won the Boston Marathon in his wheelchair coming in almost 45 minutes ahead of the first one on foot. What about Tiger Woods receiving LASIK to perfect his vision? He has been winning …
Politician TV
Learned that Barack Obama’s Web site contains lots of captioned video. Whether or not you support him — we appreciate the opportunity to get to know candidates as much as we need to with captioned television. I still prefer online mainstream videos and TV videos to be captioned over politics (after all, there’s something in …
Project ReadOn and Dot Sub with Captioned Videos
I can’t believe I didn’t know about these sites earlier! I had heard about Will Ferrell’s hilarious landlord video that stars his 3-year-old daughter as a mean and drunk landlord. But I never pay attention to videos since I know most don’t come with captions… until today. Project ReadOn requires lining up the captioned popup …