Click image to read an article about a hard of hearing girl and her 'Hearing' dog.   The charity [Hearing Dogs]  has been providing assistance dogs to deaf adults for the past 27 years and wanted to see whether children might also benefit. The two-year initiative was launched 12 months ago. Six families have signed up so far, but eventually it will involve 12 hearing families, each with a deaf child aged between six and 11.  The idea was that the specially trained dogs would help aler... Read Full Story

Wow, after a 30 year struggle, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Jamaicans have finally earned the right to drive! Can you believe it? I very often forget that not all countries have the same beliefs in the abilities of deaf people. They just held a 30 day sign language training course for police officers and personnel from the Island Traffic Authority. Good for them!  Information taken from this article:  Driving deaf - Traffic Authority personnel receive sign language lessons Read Full Story

Like many bloggers, I’ve been too busy with my own life to post as much as I intended to when I first started this blog. I wanted this blog to be an interesting and informative resource for Sign Language Interpreting students and a place for me to connect with Deaf people whose blogs and vlogs I visit on a regular basis.  But…well, you know how it is. Anyway, while I was looking up local Deaf events, hoping to find a Silent Movie event, I found a link to this really awesome websi... Read Full Story

ASL and CI together again! I was very pleased to see this video for the first time. It was very worrisome to many people when Cochlear Implants first became widely used. There is always a fear that ASL will be rejected by parents and that Spoken English will be forced upon deaf children. This video shows that once Deaf, always Deaf. It also demonstrates that many parents will still teach ASL to their implanted child. I am so pleased to see all these children with CIs using ASL and loving it!... Read Full Story

This is pretty funny. It’s also very interesting if you’re interested in other sign languages of the world besides ASL. It’s fun to recognize iconic signs and also to see how BSL has some seemingly really strange arbitrary signs, when you’re used to ASL.        Read Full Story

I’ve been gone for so long I’m embarrassed about it! How could I let this happen?! Well, I’m sure I’ve been missing a lot of news in the Deaf World. My husband and I did spend a month in Arizona and when we returned I got a second job teaching ASL! Now that you all know I’m a Sign Language teacher, I’m even more intimidated about posting my first VLOG! - which I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. Oh, well. I’ll just have to bite the bullet ... Read Full Story

I want to apologize to my few devoted readers for my extended absence. I went through a big move in June and then the summer flew by with all the unpacking and visits from family. I am now on a Navajo reservation in Arizona for the month of August and don’t really have much computer access. But I plan to returned in September when I get home. I’ve been storing up a few things to talk about. Cheers! And thanks for reading and commenting on my articles…. Read Full Story

(Image taken from barr productions via fookembug) Okay, so this article, Hear No Evil, by Sara Minogue, was posted in the online magazine This, in the May-Jun 2005 issue, so it is definitely old news. I still think it poses a lot of interesting questions for interpreters. Here is the opener: Deaf since childhood, Bobby Suwarak grew up in isolation, able to understand no known language. Now charged with a crime, he has presented Nunavut’s court system with a problem. But the form of charades ... Read Full Story

Hmm, this is interesting. I just got an email about a research project: “Deaf-Friendly Cities in the U.S.” by Deaf411, Inc. Here is what they have to say about themselves and their project: Deaf411, a marketing and public relations company, has launched an internet video website with an online survey. This survey is part of their research to compile a report of “Deaf-Friendly Cities in the U.S.” which will be made available to interested consumers free of charge.   Thi... Read Full Story

I really can’t wait until there is a forum set up for aspiring interpreters to talk to each other online - I’m working on it. There are a few groups on LiveJournal that talk a little bit about these topics, but not in the frequency or detail that I would like. I really want to discuss this Joey Baer vlog with someone. (Via gnarleydorkette: EXPOSED.) In this video Joey Baer discusses a linguistic convention of introductions in ASL whereby people sign: MY NAME, FIRST J-E-S-S-I-C-... Read Full Story