America Online and MCI have introduced a service to allow users to have their own relay number. I have signed up for it and received my new phone number by email within two days. I’ve distributed the number, but no one has tested the service yet. I have a Sidekick II that has AIM (AOL …
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Dear Abby
Today’s Dear Abby column addresses deaf infants and testing. I agree that the sooner you detect a child’s hearing loss, the better. My parents figured it out when I was about six months old based on their experience with my two older siblings. If I could rewind time, I’d make today’s implant available when I …
Accessibility to the Arts
Gifts For The Disabled: Accessibility To The Arts (Gotham Gazette. December, 2005) lists four ways to help New Yorkers with disabilities enjoy the arts in the city. Of course, these should be adopted by metro areas around the country and the world.
Stem Cell Research
Would you believe my childhood pen pal found me and made contact just a few weeks ago? Amazing, how the Internet brings people together, eh? Anyway, I mentioned Eddie Killian because he brought up stem cell research. Here’s what he said (with some editing): I heard deaf people have a problem with stem cell research …
Producing Lower Cost Hearing Devices
Hearing for Children is an organization that is working to create a low-cost cochlear implant (LCCI) to serve the majority of the world’s deaf. Present devices are too expensive, and the the organization offers one solution. Another similar effort from Project Impact is working to develop low-cost hearing aids. These are admirable organizations who are …
Letter to a Son
A letter to my deaf son shares a letter from a mother who is proud of her son’s accomplishments and making it into the ABA League. Read about the signing of Osei Morris to the L.A. Stars. It’s not often we hear heartwarming stories from professional athletes in a day and age when greed and …
Google Is Deaf
They’re just now noticing Google is a deaf user? Actually, much of the Internet is as podasting, videos, and audio files grow by (cliche’) leaps and bounds. Between the entry and the comments that follow including a couple from Joe Clark, I think it’s all been said. What about other disabilities? I am suer they …
Reverse Discrimination
This story gives me a lot to think about. The author makes good points. Since these events are “deaf competitions,” should every athlete be on even ground by having rules that don’t allow them to wear hearing aids, cochlear implants, or any other device that helps with the hearing? Then again when you practice, practice, …
Transparent Operators
I’ve reported on the Captel phone in the past and Fredericksburg.com has an article about real life experiences with it. One question remains: how accurate are the captions? I’ve sent an email to the writer.
Communication between Deaf and Blind
The article is about the Vardon family that you may have seen on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I could not imagine how a son who is blind could communicate with his parents who are both deaf. Well, I thought of a few ways, but still couldn’t imagine the challenges. The article explains the technology that …