Deafness Blog with Jamie Berke December 2005 Archive

2005 in Review: My Personal Favorites Church Interpreters - Volunteer or Paid? Classroom Accessibility Deaf Comic Strips and Cartoons Deaf Immigrant Students Deaf Theatre Deaf/HOH Muslims Parents Who Don't Sign Signed TV Commercials Popular with About Visitors Christmas Songs and Carols ... Read More

Closing out the year 2005 with a profile of Siemens, one of the best-known hearing aid manufacturers.

This morning, I had an unexpected, and extremely welcome, encounter with a deaf couple. I was driving to work when my car broke down on the side of the street. ... Read More

Enjoy the newest addition to the stories and poetry at the Literary Corner at About Deafness, a story about Chanukah and deafness. The focus is more on Chanukah, with a ... Read More

Do you or your child decorate your hearing aid(s) or speech processor? I would love to have pictures of the decorated hearing aids or speech processors for a new photo ... Read More

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 about a deaf teacher, Maya Yamada, winning a coveted certification from the high-standards National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. At the ... Read More

G'day. i am trying to remember the title of a movie I saw once (could be tele-movie 80s-90s). A murder / thriller about an interpreter in a call centre for ... Read More

Whether you are new to deafness or a professional working with deaf and hard of hearing people, the book Odyssey of Hearing Loss will have something for you. This book ... Read More

One of the most fun things about sign language is learning how to sign the words for different animals. Here are sources for signs for animals, online, and in books, ... Read More

India has developed its own, less expensive cochlear implant, as reported in The Hindu online.

A recent study has found that age does not matter as much as having residual hearing, in predicting the outcome for cochlear implantation. This was reported in several sources, including ... Read More

One of this week's hot entertainment stories is that rap singer Foxy Brown has had sudden hearing loss (and she will get surgery soon to fix it - no word ... Read More

Have you ever developed a sign yourself out of necessity, because there was no available sign in ASL? Do you have any you would like to share? —abdeafness

The abstract of the article "Look Who's Being Left Behind: Educational Interpreters and Access to Education for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students" in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education ... Read More

Many of us are visiting family and friends for the holidays, and that means sleeping with our partners in their homes. Being deaf or hard of hearing, we can't hear ... Read More

According to their post on the forum, CSD is offering a Signing Santa via videophone or webcam. This can be very helpful for deaf children or hearing children of ... Read More

I'm wondering if there are any tools that can be used in a hospital setting for patients on respirators. My mother in-law just woke up from 4 weeks of ... Read More

India is a huge country, and researching this article on deafness in India was challenging. Topics covered in this article include deaf education, nongovernmental organizations supporting deaf people in india, ... Read More

I am hearing and i go to public schools. My school has a school for the deaf and i have a few deaf/HOH hearing kids in my classes. ... Read More

At present I am working on the next article for the international deaf communities serial, and in the meantime I put together two more mini sign guides: Family Signs - These ... Read More

The Newsday (December 5, 2005) article, "Cochlear implant clues: Hearing study in cats born deaf helps show why the nerve-stimulating devices are 80 percent successful in children but rarely work ... Read More

My teacher told my deaf culture class to go find out about the "black hole" joke. Does anybody know..... I've been attempting to find it on line with no luck. ... Read More