Deaf people and people with disabilities in Price Edward Island, Canada, this blog post is for you. This blog post is also for you if you’ve ever been frustrated at how YOUR government (in any country) treats Deaf or disabled people and wanted to do something about it.
Stephen Pate recently brought his blog to [...]
[Edited Jan 1 '07 to add this paragraph:] If you’re interested, then I have now also written about the FreeRice vocabulary game at my other blog. That post is partly fun (as is this one) but talks more about general poverty issues and why the free rice vocabulary game isn’t enough to fight hunger [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )If you rely on Deaf Read to help you find interesting or humorous Deaf-related vlogs then you might have missed this one. Today, I discovered a funny 6-minute vlog skit, in BSL with English subtitles, about a man who comes out to his hearing mother … as a Deaf man! It’s funny because [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )I have created a new blog on issues related to poor people with disabilities in developing countries and international development. The “We Can Do” blog at http://wecando.wordpress.com is targeted at anyone who shares an interest in creating a world in which Deaf or disabled people in developing countries have the tools, resources, knowledge and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )China continues to intensify their censorship of the World Wide Web. People in China can’t even look at innocous pictures that a friend has put up on “flickr.com.” Why? Because “flickr” has also been used to post pictures of the protests in Tinanmen square in 1989. Apparently, the risk that a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Uganda is another African country that has sent its share of deaf/Deaf students to Gallaudet University. And, like Kenya (posted last night), they too have a web site:
http://www.unadug.net/general/index.html
See my post from last night about the Kenya deaf web site — either click on the “international” category button below, or go to the main page [...]
This blog is technically focused on the broader Gallaudet University community, both on campus and off, including for alumni. But sometimes I blog on matters of broader relevance to the deaf community in general.
The article included below is written about the disability movement in England. But many of the themes it touches upon [...]
Ever since Andrew Foster graduated from Gallaudet in the 1950s and established schools for deaf children throughout Africa, Gallaudet has been closely linked in many ways to many of the African Deaf communities. Kenya is one of several African countries that has sent Deaf students to Gallaudet University.
If you’re a Gallaudet student, staff, faculty, [...]
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