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Medical Research: Parents of children with severe epilepsy are turning to medical marijuana in a desperate attempt to find relief and a life for their kids. Meanwhile, the medical community grapples with how to deal with the growing popularity of an unproven cure.
An article from Today's Parent: The day before Mandy McKnight gave her then six-year-old son Liam cannabis oil for the first time, he had 70 serious tonic-clonic (formerly known as grand mal) seizures. A few times an hour, around the clock, he would lose consciousness while his whole body stiffened and convulsed for about three minutes. On top of the seizures and the exhaustion and disorientation that followed, Liam was knocked out by the side effects of the cocktail of anticonvulsant drugs he was taking several times a day. “Most of the time he would just lie on the couch drooling, basically catatonic,” says McKnight. “It was a nightmare.”
Liam, now eight, has Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy caused by a rare genetic mutation. He was diagnosed when he started having seizures at nine months old. Before then, he had been a healthy, happy baby. Over the next five years, Liam was placed on 10 different medications and a special diet, but nothing worked: his seizures were becoming more intense and more frequent. Prolonged and repeated seizures (ones that last longer than five minutes and don’t allow for recovery between them) can be life-threatening, and by 2013, McKnight says she and her husband needed to act. “We felt like Liam was going to die if we didn’t do something.” They had heard success stories from other parents of kids with Dravet syndrome who were experimenting with cannabis oil-edible oil infused with strains of medical marijuana with high levels of cannabidiol (CBD), a chemical that may reduce the frequency of seizures. They decided to give it a try. Liam’s paediatric neurologist was skeptical and refused to write a prescription for an unproven treatment, but they were hopeful, excited even. “We felt like it could be life changing for our family,” says McKnight, who has two older daughters.
They were so anxious they travelled from their home in Ottawa to meet with a paediatrician in Edmonton, recommended by friends in their community, who was willing to write a prescription for medical marijuana. Reassured, the McKnights mail-ordered dried marijuana from their assigned licensed producer, and then worked with a Montreal-based medical marijuana dispensary to learn how to turn it into edible cannabis oil. In June 2014, after his inaugural dose of high-CBD cannabis oil, Liam had his first seizure-free day in two years-and then he went 10 more days without seizing. He started walking around, talking and feeding himself. “All of a sudden, he was looking us in the eye for the first time,” remembers McKnight. “I was finally really meeting my kid, who had been living in a fog of medication and seizures.”
McKnight is part of a growing network of parents whose children have rare, difficult-to-treat forms of epilepsy who have exhausted traditional options and are turning to medical marijuana. These parents swap cannabis oil recipes on Facebook, share contacts for neurologists who are willing to write referrals to medical marijuana clinics and spend thousands of dollars a year on specialized plant strains (none of which are covered by drug plans).
The idea of using CBD on kids went mainstream in 2013, after a documentary by Sanjay Gupta, a US neurosurgeon and medical reporter, featured the story of a six-year-old Colorado girl with Dravet syndrome who had experienced a dramatic decrease in seizures while on a daily CBD oil regimen. High-CBD cannabis oil is used commonly, and with great anecdotal success, for kids with severe epilepsy, but there are also reports of parents using it to treat their children’s autism, ADHD and anxiety. So far, most of what parents have to go on are reports from other families, though initial clinical studies of CBD are beginning to build evidence to support what parents using it already know. But with research very much in its infancy and no long-term studies or standardized product they can prescribe, most paediatric neurologists are reluctant to recommend cannabis for kids. In fact, the Canadian Paediatric Society recently released a statement saying that while research is ongoing, cannabis should only be considered as a possible treatment in “exceptional cases.” In the meantime, some desperate parents are forging ahead, accessing cannabis through Canada’s legal medical marijuana program and figuring out on their own how to dose their kids.
Using marijuana to treat children can seem radical-as a recreational drug, it’s still illegal, and some research on heavy-pot-smoking teens suggests it can damage developing brains. Even for parents who now give it to their kids, the idea took some getting used to. “I was never a recreational user,” McKnight says. “If you had told me five years ago I’d be doing this, I would have said, ‘You’re crazy! I’m not giving my kid cannabis!’” Vancouver mom Sherri Brown has given CBD oil to her six-year-old son Quinn, who was diagnosed with epilepsy and autism. She’s become accustomed to fielding questions and criticisms from parents on social media. “Somebody jumped on me in an autism Facebook group and commented, ‘That’s irresponsible,’” Brown says. “The stigma around it being a dangerous illegal drug is going to persist for awhile.”
Medical marijuana advocates are quick to explain that not all cannabis products are the same. Parents of kids with drug-resistant epilepsy choose CBD oil because it’s made from strains of the cannabis sativa plant that are bred to be both high in CBD and very low in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the chemical responsible for the stereotypical “stoner” high. It’s important to note that kids dosed with high-CBD, low-THC oil are not getting high-in fact, McKnight and some other parents say that, compared with their kids’ lethargic, stoned behaviour on traditional anticonvulsant pharmaceuticals, when they’re on CBD, they appear brighter, more active and more engaged in the world... Read More The Full Story.
An article from Today's Parent: The day before Mandy McKnight gave her then six-year-old son Liam cannabis oil for the first time, he had 70 serious tonic-clonic (formerly known as grand mal) seizures. A few times an hour, around the clock, he would lose consciousness while his whole body stiffened and convulsed for about three minutes. On top of the seizures and the exhaustion and disorientation that followed, Liam was knocked out by the side effects of the cocktail of anticonvulsant drugs he was taking several times a day. “Most of the time he would just lie on the couch drooling, basically catatonic,” says McKnight. “It was a nightmare.”Liam, now eight, has Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy caused by a rare genetic mutation. He was diagnosed when he started having seizures at nine months old. Before then, he had been a healthy, happy baby. Over the next five years, Liam was placed on 10 different medications and a special diet, but nothing worked: his seizures were becoming more intense and more frequent. Prolonged and repeated seizures (ones that last longer than five minutes and don’t allow for recovery between them) can be life-threatening, and by 2013, McKnight says she and her husband needed to act. “We felt like Liam was going to die if we didn’t do something.” They had heard success stories from other parents of kids with Dravet syndrome who were experimenting with cannabis oil-edible oil infused with strains of medical marijuana with high levels of cannabidiol (CBD), a chemical that may reduce the frequency of seizures. They decided to give it a try. Liam’s paediatric neurologist was skeptical and refused to write a prescription for an unproven treatment, but they were hopeful, excited even. “We felt like it could be life changing for our family,” says McKnight, who has two older daughters.
They were so anxious they travelled from their home in Ottawa to meet with a paediatrician in Edmonton, recommended by friends in their community, who was willing to write a prescription for medical marijuana. Reassured, the McKnights mail-ordered dried marijuana from their assigned licensed producer, and then worked with a Montreal-based medical marijuana dispensary to learn how to turn it into edible cannabis oil. In June 2014, after his inaugural dose of high-CBD cannabis oil, Liam had his first seizure-free day in two years-and then he went 10 more days without seizing. He started walking around, talking and feeding himself. “All of a sudden, he was looking us in the eye for the first time,” remembers McKnight. “I was finally really meeting my kid, who had been living in a fog of medication and seizures.”
McKnight is part of a growing network of parents whose children have rare, difficult-to-treat forms of epilepsy who have exhausted traditional options and are turning to medical marijuana. These parents swap cannabis oil recipes on Facebook, share contacts for neurologists who are willing to write referrals to medical marijuana clinics and spend thousands of dollars a year on specialized plant strains (none of which are covered by drug plans).
The idea of using CBD on kids went mainstream in 2013, after a documentary by Sanjay Gupta, a US neurosurgeon and medical reporter, featured the story of a six-year-old Colorado girl with Dravet syndrome who had experienced a dramatic decrease in seizures while on a daily CBD oil regimen. High-CBD cannabis oil is used commonly, and with great anecdotal success, for kids with severe epilepsy, but there are also reports of parents using it to treat their children’s autism, ADHD and anxiety. So far, most of what parents have to go on are reports from other families, though initial clinical studies of CBD are beginning to build evidence to support what parents using it already know. But with research very much in its infancy and no long-term studies or standardized product they can prescribe, most paediatric neurologists are reluctant to recommend cannabis for kids. In fact, the Canadian Paediatric Society recently released a statement saying that while research is ongoing, cannabis should only be considered as a possible treatment in “exceptional cases.” In the meantime, some desperate parents are forging ahead, accessing cannabis through Canada’s legal medical marijuana program and figuring out on their own how to dose their kids.
Using marijuana to treat children can seem radical-as a recreational drug, it’s still illegal, and some research on heavy-pot-smoking teens suggests it can damage developing brains. Even for parents who now give it to their kids, the idea took some getting used to. “I was never a recreational user,” McKnight says. “If you had told me five years ago I’d be doing this, I would have said, ‘You’re crazy! I’m not giving my kid cannabis!’” Vancouver mom Sherri Brown has given CBD oil to her six-year-old son Quinn, who was diagnosed with epilepsy and autism. She’s become accustomed to fielding questions and criticisms from parents on social media. “Somebody jumped on me in an autism Facebook group and commented, ‘That’s irresponsible,’” Brown says. “The stigma around it being a dangerous illegal drug is going to persist for awhile.”
Medical marijuana advocates are quick to explain that not all cannabis products are the same. Parents of kids with drug-resistant epilepsy choose CBD oil because it’s made from strains of the cannabis sativa plant that are bred to be both high in CBD and very low in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the chemical responsible for the stereotypical “stoner” high. It’s important to note that kids dosed with high-CBD, low-THC oil are not getting high-in fact, McKnight and some other parents say that, compared with their kids’ lethargic, stoned behaviour on traditional anticonvulsant pharmaceuticals, when they’re on CBD, they appear brighter, more active and more engaged in the world... Read More The Full Story.
Deaf News: Deaf teen leaves rural community for fresh start in Regina school due to sign language boost socialization in the capital of Saskatchewan.
CBC REGINA, SK -- For those in remote and rural Sask., a hearing impairment can present major challenges. Seventeen-year-old Shayla Tanner, who is Deaf, has faced challenges academically and socially in her home community but has seen tremendous growth in the past three years.
She recalls that with few in her community of Cowessess First Nation knowing sign language, she fell behind in school and socializing. 'I just felt horrible'
"With my work I really felt like I just wanted to give up with it," she said through her interpreter as she signed. "I couldn't communicate with my friends and I felt like I was just having a breakdown.
"With reading, when I used my voice while at my old school there were four kids and they said they couldn't understand me, and I just felt horrible about that."
Tanner says she would try to read lips and write notes to speak to others in her community.
"They would talk slow to me, but I still didn't understand. They would talk and I just didn't really get it."
Making friends was more difficult than it is now.
New beginning at Regina high school. It was her special education teacher who suggested she go to school at Thom Collegiate in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Thom teacher Joanne Weber, who is Deaf herself, runs a class that has been highly praised for the way it focuses on visual learning and sign language.
Art could be the next big breakthrough in Deaf education.
And so, three years ago, Tanner left Cowessess and moved in with her brother in Regina so that she could join the program.
It's was a challenge, she says. She learned a more in-depth version of American Sign Language and gained a better grasp of English grammar... Read More.
CBC REGINA, SK -- For those in remote and rural Sask., a hearing impairment can present major challenges. Seventeen-year-old Shayla Tanner, who is Deaf, has faced challenges academically and socially in her home community but has seen tremendous growth in the past three years.She recalls that with few in her community of Cowessess First Nation knowing sign language, she fell behind in school and socializing. 'I just felt horrible'
"With my work I really felt like I just wanted to give up with it," she said through her interpreter as she signed. "I couldn't communicate with my friends and I felt like I was just having a breakdown.
"With reading, when I used my voice while at my old school there were four kids and they said they couldn't understand me, and I just felt horrible about that."
Tanner says she would try to read lips and write notes to speak to others in her community.
"They would talk slow to me, but I still didn't understand. They would talk and I just didn't really get it."
Making friends was more difficult than it is now.
New beginning at Regina high school. It was her special education teacher who suggested she go to school at Thom Collegiate in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Thom teacher Joanne Weber, who is Deaf herself, runs a class that has been highly praised for the way it focuses on visual learning and sign language.
Art could be the next big breakthrough in Deaf education.
And so, three years ago, Tanner left Cowessess and moved in with her brother in Regina so that she could join the program.
It's was a challenge, she says. She learned a more in-depth version of American Sign Language and gained a better grasp of English grammar... Read More.
VIDEO: Deaf Grassroots Movement Rally: Join one of 50 US States - National Deaf Rally on May 4, 2016. Lets write our moment into Deaf World History!
Deaf News: Deaf Grassroots Movement are purpose to unity all together like a grassroots. We will fight for our educations, job opportunities, and communications access and word of disability. All of these will must to change and it is 2016. We have been waiting for this long time to get our equal rights. It is time to spread the words and get all together to fight for our equal rights.
We're still facing inequality access of opportunities as hearing people does. We will not fight as individuals. We will fight as a team to make a change. Deaf Grassroots Movement - National Rally will be on May 4, 2016.
The mission of the National Deaf Rally is to invite Deaf civil rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action and to demonstrate on a special day the needs of our community over education, employment, and communications access. We activists choose this day of rally to call for an end to discrimination in the workplace, removal of barriers in education, and implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act laws in regards to on-site interpreting and captions in the media at public places. Our goal is to promote equality for all, with the quality of life improved for us. We want this day to make the most powerful impact possible on our nation, that would last long, and influence our legislators to pass laws and amendments that would benefit us on the whole as a society.
The impact we are seeking to make would not only be on legislators but would alter the perceptions of other entities such as law enforcement at all levels, services, and private sectors in our society towards Deaf people in a positive way, to effect changes that are necessary in order for us to lead productive lives, that will provide opportunities for us we seek, that will put us on the same level as other hearing citizens. National Rally will be on May 4, 2016.
Follow Deaf Grassroots Movement on Social Media:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/deafgrassrootsmovement
Official Website - http://www.tdgm2015.org
Deaf News: Deaf Grassroots Movement are purpose to unity all together like a grassroots. We will fight for our educations, job opportunities, and communications access and word of disability. All of these will must to change and it is 2016. We have been waiting for this long time to get our equal rights. It is time to spread the words and get all together to fight for our equal rights.
We're still facing inequality access of opportunities as hearing people does. We will not fight as individuals. We will fight as a team to make a change. Deaf Grassroots Movement - National Rally will be on May 4, 2016.
The mission of the National Deaf Rally is to invite Deaf civil rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action and to demonstrate on a special day the needs of our community over education, employment, and communications access. We activists choose this day of rally to call for an end to discrimination in the workplace, removal of barriers in education, and implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act laws in regards to on-site interpreting and captions in the media at public places. Our goal is to promote equality for all, with the quality of life improved for us. We want this day to make the most powerful impact possible on our nation, that would last long, and influence our legislators to pass laws and amendments that would benefit us on the whole as a society.
The impact we are seeking to make would not only be on legislators but would alter the perceptions of other entities such as law enforcement at all levels, services, and private sectors in our society towards Deaf people in a positive way, to effect changes that are necessary in order for us to lead productive lives, that will provide opportunities for us we seek, that will put us on the same level as other hearing citizens. National Rally will be on May 4, 2016.
Follow Deaf Grassroots Movement on Social Media:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/deafgrassrootsmovement
Official Website - http://www.tdgm2015.org
Deaf News: Son James was mercilessly picked on in the playground because he has a hearing impairment at mainstreaming school.
DUNDEE, UK -- The Sunday Post: Chris said teachers did little to tackle the problem when James was subjected to name-calling by other pupils.
Eventually, Chris and wife Samantha were forced to take the step of removing him from the school due to the “lack of understanding from teachers”.
“People are ignorant – that’s not going to change,” said the former striker, who has tried to teach his son how to deal with the name-calling.
He said: “It is wrong for children to tease and bully but it happens through school and as much as we’d like it to, it will probably never be eradicated.
“I prepare James for this. What I couldn’t understand was the lack of understanding from his teachers at his previous school.
“They did not know how to treat him because of his hearing aids.”
Following abuse at the hands of other children, Chris was forced to carefully explain to James that he was happy with him just the way he his.
“You find out who your friends are,” is the difficult advice he gave him.“Kids have to work things out for themselves,” he added.
Since placing James in another school, he has flourished and is now an accomplished hockey player, much to his dad’s delight.
Chris said: “Going to his new school totally transformed him as a person.
“He was depressed and lacked self-belief and it was because of the common sense and logical understanding of the teachers at his new school that he began to build his confidence.”
The now 14-year-old’s early life was beset by problems.
James was born prematurely at 28 weeks in September
2001 at The Queen Mother’s Hospital in Glasgow, weighing just 3lb.
He was so tiny, Chris could hold him in the palm of his hand.
After weeks of specialist care, he was eventually allowed to go home.
However, Samantha rushed James to the former Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow 10 days later when he fell seriously ill with a respiratory virus.
He was choking and having terrifying episodes where he would stop breathing.
She took him to hospital but while in the waiting room he stopped breathing again.
He was rushed to a side room where doctors resuscitated him. Medics said he could have died if he hadn’t got there when he did.
Chris, 43, said: “My wife had this feeling and she turned round and James was going blue.
“They rushed him into the hospital and he had gone. They got him back.
“He was in a long time. They resuscitated him. He was a tiny baby. It was the most worrying thing that has ever happened.
“Had we lived any further away we might not have got there in time. Another minute and he might not have been here. We were told that.”
Doctors said James was suffering from RSV – a common virus with cold-like symptoms.
Healthy children tend to shrug it off, but it can be life-threatening for premature babies.
The star was in Spain at the time preparing for a crucial UEFA Cup tie with Valencia when Samantha called to say James was fighting for his life.
He immediately tried to get a flight home, but couldn’t.
In the end he chose not to go to the match but instead stayed at the hotel where Samantha could call to give him updates.
He flew home early next day and went to the intensive care ward where he and Samantha kept a bedside vigil.
The footballer said it was the most worrying time of his life.
“James was on life support. It was touch-and-go,” he revealed.
“You hope, you sit and pray and think about things.
SOURCE
Related:
Living In Between The Deaf And Hearing Worlds
Dropout Rate Among Mainstream Deaf Students
Deaf Awareness 'Voiceless' Short Film
Deaf Girl's Bullying In Mainstream School
Deaf Student Bullied At Alexander Graham Bell School
Mainstream School Is Failing Deaf Students
Petition | Stop Moving Deaf To Mainstream Schools
DUNDEE, UK -- The Sunday Post: Chris said teachers did little to tackle the problem when James was subjected to name-calling by other pupils.Eventually, Chris and wife Samantha were forced to take the step of removing him from the school due to the “lack of understanding from teachers”.
“People are ignorant – that’s not going to change,” said the former striker, who has tried to teach his son how to deal with the name-calling.
He said: “It is wrong for children to tease and bully but it happens through school and as much as we’d like it to, it will probably never be eradicated.
“I prepare James for this. What I couldn’t understand was the lack of understanding from his teachers at his previous school.
“They did not know how to treat him because of his hearing aids.”
Following abuse at the hands of other children, Chris was forced to carefully explain to James that he was happy with him just the way he his.
“You find out who your friends are,” is the difficult advice he gave him.“Kids have to work things out for themselves,” he added.
Since placing James in another school, he has flourished and is now an accomplished hockey player, much to his dad’s delight.
Chris said: “Going to his new school totally transformed him as a person.
“He was depressed and lacked self-belief and it was because of the common sense and logical understanding of the teachers at his new school that he began to build his confidence.”
The now 14-year-old’s early life was beset by problems.
James was born prematurely at 28 weeks in September
2001 at The Queen Mother’s Hospital in Glasgow, weighing just 3lb.
He was so tiny, Chris could hold him in the palm of his hand.
After weeks of specialist care, he was eventually allowed to go home.
However, Samantha rushed James to the former Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow 10 days later when he fell seriously ill with a respiratory virus.
He was choking and having terrifying episodes where he would stop breathing.
She took him to hospital but while in the waiting room he stopped breathing again.
He was rushed to a side room where doctors resuscitated him. Medics said he could have died if he hadn’t got there when he did.
Chris, 43, said: “My wife had this feeling and she turned round and James was going blue.
“They rushed him into the hospital and he had gone. They got him back.
“He was in a long time. They resuscitated him. He was a tiny baby. It was the most worrying thing that has ever happened.
“Had we lived any further away we might not have got there in time. Another minute and he might not have been here. We were told that.”
Doctors said James was suffering from RSV – a common virus with cold-like symptoms.
Healthy children tend to shrug it off, but it can be life-threatening for premature babies.
The star was in Spain at the time preparing for a crucial UEFA Cup tie with Valencia when Samantha called to say James was fighting for his life.
He immediately tried to get a flight home, but couldn’t.
In the end he chose not to go to the match but instead stayed at the hotel where Samantha could call to give him updates.
He flew home early next day and went to the intensive care ward where he and Samantha kept a bedside vigil.
The footballer said it was the most worrying time of his life.
“James was on life support. It was touch-and-go,” he revealed.
“You hope, you sit and pray and think about things.
SOURCE
Related:
Living In Between The Deaf And Hearing Worlds
Dropout Rate Among Mainstream Deaf Students
Deaf Awareness 'Voiceless' Short Film
Deaf Girl's Bullying In Mainstream School
Deaf Student Bullied At Alexander Graham Bell School
Mainstream School Is Failing Deaf Students
Petition | Stop Moving Deaf To Mainstream Schools
Deaf News: Deaf cosmetologist student teaching lessons on accessibility at the Colorado community college.
CORTEZ, CO -- Scottsbluff Star Herald: Going back to school as a single parent with two kids is challenging for many.
For Amanda Schuster getting certified as a cosmetologist has had an additional layer of complexity because she is completely Deaf.
To get the most from her classes, she taught her instructor and others at the Southwest Colorado Community College how to accommodate her, helping to pave the way for other students that might follow her.
"I've never allowed my deafness to stop me," she said, through her interpreter Dawn Kern-Anderson.
Styling hair has always been one of Schuster's passions, but when she decided to go back to school to get certified it required some coordination with the college.
The college didn't have an interpreter on staff, so she got in touch with Kern-Anderson, her interpreter from high school to translate her classes. It's a service that the college pays for.
While Schuster can read lips, Kern-Anderson makes it much easier for her to keep up with her peers.
"It makes me feel like a normal person in the classroom," she said.
Schuster is Brenda Knapp's first Deaf student and the experience has taught her to slow down and avoid tangents in her lectures that might be hard to translate.
"You have to be very structured," Knapp said.
While Schuster appreciates help from Kern-Anderson, she has been in the hearing world her whole life and she doesn't need an interpreter all the time.
Her parents always pushed her to communicate in both English and American Sign Language after she lost her hearing at 14 months to spinal meningitis.
She attended Project Talk in California, which specializes in helping Deaf children learn to talk, and speech therapy through the San Juan Board of Cooperative Educational Services.
Growing up she also excelled in sports including tennis, cheer leading, volleyball and sharp-shooting. After high school, she attended two years college in California and majored in photography.
"I never let anything stop me, although people do try," she said.
Her long-term goal after she finishes classes in cosmetology and aesthetics is to open a salon and photography business.
But before she can take her state test to get certified, she has to complete 1,800 hours in class.
During all her time in school, she has noticed several ways the school can be more accessible and safe for Deaf students.
For example, after the school held an assembly on school safety following a college shooting in Oregon, she suggested the school install TVs and more lights as part of the alarm system. These could help make Deaf students aware of an emergency.
In addition, none of the other students are able to bring their phones into class. But Schuster can't be reached through a regular telephone during personal emergencies, so Knapp made an exception for her.
But rather than being given special treatment, Schuster would be prefer the school have video phones available so she could communicate not only with her family, but with school administrators on different campuses.
"I'm trying to improve the systems, not just for me but for everyone," she said.
SOURCE
CORTEZ, CO -- Scottsbluff Star Herald: Going back to school as a single parent with two kids is challenging for many.For Amanda Schuster getting certified as a cosmetologist has had an additional layer of complexity because she is completely Deaf.
To get the most from her classes, she taught her instructor and others at the Southwest Colorado Community College how to accommodate her, helping to pave the way for other students that might follow her.
"I've never allowed my deafness to stop me," she said, through her interpreter Dawn Kern-Anderson.
Styling hair has always been one of Schuster's passions, but when she decided to go back to school to get certified it required some coordination with the college.
The college didn't have an interpreter on staff, so she got in touch with Kern-Anderson, her interpreter from high school to translate her classes. It's a service that the college pays for.
While Schuster can read lips, Kern-Anderson makes it much easier for her to keep up with her peers.
"It makes me feel like a normal person in the classroom," she said.
Schuster is Brenda Knapp's first Deaf student and the experience has taught her to slow down and avoid tangents in her lectures that might be hard to translate.
"You have to be very structured," Knapp said.
While Schuster appreciates help from Kern-Anderson, she has been in the hearing world her whole life and she doesn't need an interpreter all the time.
Her parents always pushed her to communicate in both English and American Sign Language after she lost her hearing at 14 months to spinal meningitis.
She attended Project Talk in California, which specializes in helping Deaf children learn to talk, and speech therapy through the San Juan Board of Cooperative Educational Services.
Growing up she also excelled in sports including tennis, cheer leading, volleyball and sharp-shooting. After high school, she attended two years college in California and majored in photography.
"I never let anything stop me, although people do try," she said.
Her long-term goal after she finishes classes in cosmetology and aesthetics is to open a salon and photography business.
But before she can take her state test to get certified, she has to complete 1,800 hours in class.
During all her time in school, she has noticed several ways the school can be more accessible and safe for Deaf students.
For example, after the school held an assembly on school safety following a college shooting in Oregon, she suggested the school install TVs and more lights as part of the alarm system. These could help make Deaf students aware of an emergency.
In addition, none of the other students are able to bring their phones into class. But Schuster can't be reached through a regular telephone during personal emergencies, so Knapp made an exception for her.
But rather than being given special treatment, Schuster would be prefer the school have video phones available so she could communicate not only with her family, but with school administrators on different campuses.
"I'm trying to improve the systems, not just for me but for everyone," she said.
SOURCE
VIDEO: Deaf News - According to the researchers, the cascading impact of hearing loss on access to school communication.
Fragmented Hearing, Effort, Listening, Comprehension, Fatigue and Pace of Learning. Hearing Loss is invisible. Someone observing a student with hearing loss may believe that he or she has an attention problem or a learning disability as hearing loss can also impact perceiving, language processing, processing speed, memory and attention. Unlike ADHD or LD, learning issues caused by hearing loss are not due to a disorder (an issue with brain processes). Instead the learning issues are secondary to delays because the child has incomplete access to speech occurring around him or her, especially soft speech or completely understanding someone talking from a distance further than 3-6 feet.
Fragmented Hearing - Our educational system is based on the assumption that students in the classroom will perceive, and therefore understand, all of what the teacher is saying. When much information received in school is fragmented because of hearing loss, learning consequences are likely. Even with the latest hearing technology, normal hearing ability is not restored by hearing devices. Even aided thresholds of 20 dB HL will cause soft speech, high pitch speech sounds and unemphasized brief words to be undetected or too quiet to process.
It is not unusual for children with hearing loss to have a 20% ‘listening gap’ as compared to class peers who may miss only 5% of information 1. The image shows a story about Fran the frog who has a sore throat. As you can see, comprehending the meaning of the story is impacted when 20% of the information missing. Even if a child is able to perform well in a quiet setting using hearing devices, a classroom setting is typically noisy, with fast-paced peer-to-peer conversations and teachers that move about the classroom, causing significant listening challenges. These conditions typically result in barriers to access.
Increased Effort - Effort refers to the exertion of physical or mental power. Listening effort refers to the attention necessary to understand speech. Ease of listening is the perceive difficulty of the listening situation by the listener. Even low noise in the environment will interact with the fragmented hearing to interfere with their speech understanding. Children with hearing loss work harder than their peers to listen leaving fewer cognitive resources to understand speech in the classroom as compared to class peers.
CSS Movies presents "Alone In A Hearing World" shows true to life scenarios of a young Deaf boy growing up in a hearing world. With family members who can't communicate and continuous misunderstandings by his teachers and coaches, he is forced to live in a world of isolation. However, when he pleas for his Mothers understanding and falls short, he ends up in the only place he seems to find acceptance.
It has been assumed that speechreading will help children to compensate for what is missed due to fragmented hearing. Research results make it clear that speechreading (lipreading) help children to compensate for what was missed...read more: http://successforkidswithhearingloss.com/pdf.
Sources:
http://successforkidswithhearingloss.com/2014/06/Cascading-Impact-of-Hearing-Loss-on-Access-to-School-Communication.
http://successforkidswithhearingloss.com/2014/06/The-Cascading-Impact-of-Hearing-Loss.
Related:
Living In Between The Deaf And Hearing Worlds
Dropout Rate Among Mainstream Deaf Students
Deaf Awareness 'Voiceless' Short Film
Deaf Girl's Bullying In Mainstream School
Deaf Student Bullied At Alexander Graham Bell School
Mainstream School Is Failing Deaf Students
Petition | Stop Moving Deaf To Mainstream Schools
Fragmented Hearing, Effort, Listening, Comprehension, Fatigue and Pace of Learning. Hearing Loss is invisible. Someone observing a student with hearing loss may believe that he or she has an attention problem or a learning disability as hearing loss can also impact perceiving, language processing, processing speed, memory and attention. Unlike ADHD or LD, learning issues caused by hearing loss are not due to a disorder (an issue with brain processes). Instead the learning issues are secondary to delays because the child has incomplete access to speech occurring around him or her, especially soft speech or completely understanding someone talking from a distance further than 3-6 feet.Fragmented Hearing - Our educational system is based on the assumption that students in the classroom will perceive, and therefore understand, all of what the teacher is saying. When much information received in school is fragmented because of hearing loss, learning consequences are likely. Even with the latest hearing technology, normal hearing ability is not restored by hearing devices. Even aided thresholds of 20 dB HL will cause soft speech, high pitch speech sounds and unemphasized brief words to be undetected or too quiet to process.
It is not unusual for children with hearing loss to have a 20% ‘listening gap’ as compared to class peers who may miss only 5% of information 1. The image shows a story about Fran the frog who has a sore throat. As you can see, comprehending the meaning of the story is impacted when 20% of the information missing. Even if a child is able to perform well in a quiet setting using hearing devices, a classroom setting is typically noisy, with fast-paced peer-to-peer conversations and teachers that move about the classroom, causing significant listening challenges. These conditions typically result in barriers to access.
Increased Effort - Effort refers to the exertion of physical or mental power. Listening effort refers to the attention necessary to understand speech. Ease of listening is the perceive difficulty of the listening situation by the listener. Even low noise in the environment will interact with the fragmented hearing to interfere with their speech understanding. Children with hearing loss work harder than their peers to listen leaving fewer cognitive resources to understand speech in the classroom as compared to class peers.
CSS Movies presents "Alone In A Hearing World" shows true to life scenarios of a young Deaf boy growing up in a hearing world. With family members who can't communicate and continuous misunderstandings by his teachers and coaches, he is forced to live in a world of isolation. However, when he pleas for his Mothers understanding and falls short, he ends up in the only place he seems to find acceptance.
It has been assumed that speechreading will help children to compensate for what is missed due to fragmented hearing. Research results make it clear that speechreading (lipreading) help children to compensate for what was missed...read more: http://successforkidswithhearingloss.com/pdf.
Sources:
http://successforkidswithhearingloss.com/2014/06/Cascading-Impact-of-Hearing-Loss-on-Access-to-School-Communication.
http://successforkidswithhearingloss.com/2014/06/The-Cascading-Impact-of-Hearing-Loss.
Related:
Living In Between The Deaf And Hearing Worlds
Dropout Rate Among Mainstream Deaf Students
Deaf Awareness 'Voiceless' Short Film
Deaf Girl's Bullying In Mainstream School
Deaf Student Bullied At Alexander Graham Bell School
Mainstream School Is Failing Deaf Students
Petition | Stop Moving Deaf To Mainstream Schools
VIDEO - Deaf News: Petition to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to save PSB schools in Ontario, Deaf community says.
LONDON, ON -- London Free Press: The province’s Deaf community and their supporters are putting pressure on Ontario’s government this week, calling on them to keep schools for the Deaf and special needs students open.
Executive director of the Ontario Association of the Deaf, as well as parents of kids who attend so-called demonstration schools - they’re funded outside the traditional school board model will be with London Fanshawe MPP Teresa Armstrong Thursday, in whose riding Robarts and Amethyst schools are located.
Save PSB Schools Petition: https://change.org/p/justin-trudeau-save-psb-schools
The group will make a presentation on the future of five such schools, including the two in London.
“The vague, uncertain messages from the Ministry (of Education) has affected our community-wide morale, self-esteem,” said David Wiesblatt, president of the London Club of the Deaf, which is organizing one of three provincial community forums on Friday.
Armstrong could not be reached by press time.
Robarts teaches Deaf students in their first language, American Sign Language, giving students a sense of community and culture, proponents say.
Amethyst is for students of average to high intelligence who have severe learning disabilities.
Students live at both schools, operated separately on Highbury Avenue, and go home on weekends.
The 2012 Drummond Report, which contained suggestions for the province on how to save money, recommended closing demonstration schools and integrating students in mainstream schools.
“Robarts has wonderful staff, administrators and facilities to support and serve our Deaf kids to thrive. We have many, many successful stories from the students and transfers from mainstream schools,” said Wiesblatt.
Many fear community consultations are a sham and the province has already made up its mind about the closings.
The total budget for the nine provincial and demonstration schools is $87.6 million. This includes salaries, operating costs and capital expenditures. Only five of the schools are under review.
Deaf Schools Under Reviews:
Robarts School for the Deaf (London): 25 senior students and 40 elementary-aged pupils.
Amethyst Demonstration School (London): Maximum 42 students a year.
Others: Trillium Demonstration School (Milton), Sagonaska Demonstration School (Belleville), Centre Jules-Leger (Ottawa.)
Save PSB Schools Petition: https://www.change.org/p/justin-trudeau-save-psb-schools Sign up to support to save Deaf Schools in Canada.
SOURCE
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Canadian 'Deaf Superintendent Now' Movement
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LONDON, ON -- London Free Press: The province’s Deaf community and their supporters are putting pressure on Ontario’s government this week, calling on them to keep schools for the Deaf and special needs students open.
Executive director of the Ontario Association of the Deaf, as well as parents of kids who attend so-called demonstration schools - they’re funded outside the traditional school board model will be with London Fanshawe MPP Teresa Armstrong Thursday, in whose riding Robarts and Amethyst schools are located.
Save PSB Schools Petition: https://change.org/p/justin-trudeau-save-psb-schools
The group will make a presentation on the future of five such schools, including the two in London.
“The vague, uncertain messages from the Ministry (of Education) has affected our community-wide morale, self-esteem,” said David Wiesblatt, president of the London Club of the Deaf, which is organizing one of three provincial community forums on Friday.
Armstrong could not be reached by press time.
Robarts teaches Deaf students in their first language, American Sign Language, giving students a sense of community and culture, proponents say.
Amethyst is for students of average to high intelligence who have severe learning disabilities.
Students live at both schools, operated separately on Highbury Avenue, and go home on weekends.
The 2012 Drummond Report, which contained suggestions for the province on how to save money, recommended closing demonstration schools and integrating students in mainstream schools.
“Robarts has wonderful staff, administrators and facilities to support and serve our Deaf kids to thrive. We have many, many successful stories from the students and transfers from mainstream schools,” said Wiesblatt.
Many fear community consultations are a sham and the province has already made up its mind about the closings.
The total budget for the nine provincial and demonstration schools is $87.6 million. This includes salaries, operating costs and capital expenditures. Only five of the schools are under review.
Deaf Schools Under Reviews:
Robarts School for the Deaf (London): 25 senior students and 40 elementary-aged pupils.
Amethyst Demonstration School (London): Maximum 42 students a year.
Others: Trillium Demonstration School (Milton), Sagonaska Demonstration School (Belleville), Centre Jules-Leger (Ottawa.)
Save PSB Schools Petition: https://www.change.org/p/justin-trudeau-save-psb-schools Sign up to support to save Deaf Schools in Canada.
SOURCE
Related Canadian Deaf Schools:
Deaf Schools In Belleville Worried About Future
Canadian 'Deaf Superintendent Now' Movement
Deaf Canadian Schools In Lawsuit Alleging Abuse
Deaf Students Abused By Priests Win $30-Million
Deaf News: HIV is a gay disease... like it or not... Queer people not happy with campaign ad in California.
LOS ANGELES -- Daily Kos: At least it is according to a controversial new ad campaign being deployed around Los Angeles on billboards and in print. And who is doing this? Not some radical conservative group, but the Gay & Lesbian Center of Los Angeles.
In this day and age, when you would think that we have come so far in the struggle to get middle America to embrace the fact that this is not a disease with an orientation, this comes along and is making waves even in conservative circles and feeding the fodder.
Response in the LGBT community has been strong, and according to many of the postings on the discussion board at the Own It. End It. website, not everyone is happy with it.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a Gay Disease? Are you kidding? For those of us living with the shame and fear of being HIV positive, I'm angry. For those who've lived long enough to see the world begin to accept HIV as more then a gay disease, I'm offended. For those who expect more from our gay organizations, I'm disappointed. Most people will only read your flashy tag line and that's what they'll promote. This world is filled with misinformation, due to our short attention spans. Most people get there information from bits and pieces propagated by the evening news or a flashy headline. I expected more from your center. While the details of your ad are most likely accurate, you've done an injustice to your community. You've flown off course and I'm saddened by your decision to promote this hateful headline.
The Los Angeles Times article regarding the controversial campaign was quick to point out that the billboards will not use the "HIV is a Gay Disease" tag, but instead will simply say "Own It. End It." I frankly don't think that this distinction makes it OK. Own what? This has generated enough attention in L.A., at this point, that the casual observer know exactly what the billboards are asking gay men to do. Take ownership of a disease they didn't create. How can you ask us as a community to own something that has affected millions globally? And to a much greater degree worldwide the heterosexual populaion? It boggles the mind...
Personally, I'm not comfortable with this at all. Gay men have fought this stigma from the very beginning of this disease. To have it come full circle in an shock tactic campaign, even in the interest of public awareness, is not cool. And before anyone says, "Look, it says clearly in the ad that they don't believe that it is a disease with an `orientation'" let me tell you something:
I have taken enough marketing classes and seminars to understand that the initial impact of the bolded taglines is whatthe average driver on the streets of L.A. will remember, or the average reader skimming a magazine will read. This does a disservice to the disease, and to those stigmatized by employers, insurance companies, familes, and the public at large.
SOURCE
LOS ANGELES -- Daily Kos: At least it is according to a controversial new ad campaign being deployed around Los Angeles on billboards and in print. And who is doing this? Not some radical conservative group, but the Gay & Lesbian Center of Los Angeles.In this day and age, when you would think that we have come so far in the struggle to get middle America to embrace the fact that this is not a disease with an orientation, this comes along and is making waves even in conservative circles and feeding the fodder.
Response in the LGBT community has been strong, and according to many of the postings on the discussion board at the Own It. End It. website, not everyone is happy with it.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a Gay Disease? Are you kidding? For those of us living with the shame and fear of being HIV positive, I'm angry. For those who've lived long enough to see the world begin to accept HIV as more then a gay disease, I'm offended. For those who expect more from our gay organizations, I'm disappointed. Most people will only read your flashy tag line and that's what they'll promote. This world is filled with misinformation, due to our short attention spans. Most people get there information from bits and pieces propagated by the evening news or a flashy headline. I expected more from your center. While the details of your ad are most likely accurate, you've done an injustice to your community. You've flown off course and I'm saddened by your decision to promote this hateful headline.
The Los Angeles Times article regarding the controversial campaign was quick to point out that the billboards will not use the "HIV is a Gay Disease" tag, but instead will simply say "Own It. End It." I frankly don't think that this distinction makes it OK. Own what? This has generated enough attention in L.A., at this point, that the casual observer know exactly what the billboards are asking gay men to do. Take ownership of a disease they didn't create. How can you ask us as a community to own something that has affected millions globally? And to a much greater degree worldwide the heterosexual populaion? It boggles the mind...Personally, I'm not comfortable with this at all. Gay men have fought this stigma from the very beginning of this disease. To have it come full circle in an shock tactic campaign, even in the interest of public awareness, is not cool. And before anyone says, "Look, it says clearly in the ad that they don't believe that it is a disease with an `orientation'" let me tell you something:
I have taken enough marketing classes and seminars to understand that the initial impact of the bolded taglines is whatthe average driver on the streets of L.A. will remember, or the average reader skimming a magazine will read. This does a disservice to the disease, and to those stigmatized by employers, insurance companies, familes, and the public at large.
SOURCE
VIDEO: Deaf News: With cochlear implants, people can turn the noise around them on and off at will.
The Atlantic: My son travels between silence and sound each day. He received his first cochlear implant when he was a year old. Now in middle school, he’s spent almost his whole life with the ability to turn off the world’s noise at will. In the morning, he attaches the external magnets of his cochlear implants to each side of his head, where they transmit sound from the microphones and speech processors worn over his ears. The electrode arrays in each of his cochleae then stimulate the auditory nerve, and zap, he “hears.”
With his implant, he’s become part of a new generation of profoundly Deaf kids who are assimilated into the mainstream hearing world. In 1989, the Food and Drug Administration approved cochlear implants for children aged 2 years or older; in 2000, the agency green-lit implants for kids as young as 12 months. In the wake of those approvals, thousands of parents like me with no connection to Deaf culture or knowledge of American Sign Language have opted to have their children receive implants. (More than 90 percent of congenitally Deaf babies are born to typical-hearing parents.)
But our decision also placed our son in between two worlds: He is not a member of Deaf signing culture, but neither is he fully part of the hearing community. Instead, he lives somewhere in the middle, joining the 48 million Americans who are challenged with some level of hearing loss.
“Sometimes my brain accounts for the fact that I don’t hear,” he says. “Like if I stomp my foot with my implants off, then my brain kind of makes a sound for it.” He is coming to recognize himself as a “Hearing/Deaf” person an identity that has shaped his sense of social inclusion in unique ways. When his cochlear implants are off, he says, he experiences the world through a kind of “peaceful darkness.” (At times, the decision to turn it on and off is a strategic one: “It is kind of cool to take them off when someone is being annoying to me.”)
According to the FDA, approximately 88,000 people in the U.S. had received cochlear implants as of 2012, including around 38,000 children. The majority of these children attend schools alongside typical-hearing peers, which can be mentally and emotionally taxing as they work to keep up with the sounds around them.
Sometimes words just get all mixed up and you just can’t understand the person. “It’s not like you put the implants on and you can hear just like a normal person,” he reminds me. “Sometimes words just get all mixed up and you just can’t understand the person.” Indeed, experts in field of auditory-verbal therapy stress that implant-wearers must be “hearing athletes” in order to thrive in the cacophonous world. Listening is not a passive endeavor, and pressure to keep up can be tiring.
In recent years, advancements in hearing technology have made it a little bit easier. My son now has the Naida CI Q90, a model from the California-based implant manufacturer Advanced Bionics. The implant, recently approved by the FDA, contains software that more effectively minimizes echo, wind, and reverberation sounds. It has Bluetooth capability, meaning that music, movies, and phone calls can be sent wirelessly into his device. It’s also capable of zooming in on a single voice in a noisy environment.
The implant has gone a long way towards helping him integrate more seamlessly into the everyday hearing world. At school, for example, the teacher's voice is transmitted to our son’s receivers via an FM system above all other sound, and a portable pen-shaped microphone on his school desk picks up small group conversations.
But for a tween, naturally, the biggest concern it is all about fitting in. My son’s hair is now deliberately long enough to cover his hearing devices. When asked how he enjoys music, he says that he likes the feeling of hearing what his friends are listening to.
“Maybe I’m not even hearing the same things as them because I have no idea how people hear,” he says, “but I have the feeling I’m really close to it.”
SOURCE
Alone in a Hearing World
What Is the Leading Cause of Child Abandonment?
History of Abandonment/Abuse - History tends to repeat itself and this is especially true of abuse and neglect patterns. Parents who experienced abuse, neglect or abandonment at the hands of someone when they were a child are more likely to repeat the pattern and abuse, neglect or abandon their own children. UNICEF estimates that 13 million children worldwide have been abandoned by both parents for various reasons, abuse and neglect among them. Watch video in behavioral problems for not learning in sign language and oppression: Alone In A Hearing World.
Cochlear Implants Fail... Lawsuits... Call Lawyer... Cochlear Implant Lawyer for Advanced Bionics and Clarion Devices. Get a free lawsuit review for Advanced Bionics cochlear implants and earlier Clarion models by completing the form on this page. A Deaf attorney is available to review your information and can discuss it by videophone (VP). The lawyers of Weitz and, Luxenberg P.C. have expanded litigation against Advanced Bionics related to defective Advanced bionics and cochlear implants implanted in young children and adults - http://yourlawyer.com/cochlear-implants-lawsuits
The Atlantic: My son travels between silence and sound each day. He received his first cochlear implant when he was a year old. Now in middle school, he’s spent almost his whole life with the ability to turn off the world’s noise at will. In the morning, he attaches the external magnets of his cochlear implants to each side of his head, where they transmit sound from the microphones and speech processors worn over his ears. The electrode arrays in each of his cochleae then stimulate the auditory nerve, and zap, he “hears.”With his implant, he’s become part of a new generation of profoundly Deaf kids who are assimilated into the mainstream hearing world. In 1989, the Food and Drug Administration approved cochlear implants for children aged 2 years or older; in 2000, the agency green-lit implants for kids as young as 12 months. In the wake of those approvals, thousands of parents like me with no connection to Deaf culture or knowledge of American Sign Language have opted to have their children receive implants. (More than 90 percent of congenitally Deaf babies are born to typical-hearing parents.)
But our decision also placed our son in between two worlds: He is not a member of Deaf signing culture, but neither is he fully part of the hearing community. Instead, he lives somewhere in the middle, joining the 48 million Americans who are challenged with some level of hearing loss.
“Sometimes my brain accounts for the fact that I don’t hear,” he says. “Like if I stomp my foot with my implants off, then my brain kind of makes a sound for it.” He is coming to recognize himself as a “Hearing/Deaf” person an identity that has shaped his sense of social inclusion in unique ways. When his cochlear implants are off, he says, he experiences the world through a kind of “peaceful darkness.” (At times, the decision to turn it on and off is a strategic one: “It is kind of cool to take them off when someone is being annoying to me.”)
According to the FDA, approximately 88,000 people in the U.S. had received cochlear implants as of 2012, including around 38,000 children. The majority of these children attend schools alongside typical-hearing peers, which can be mentally and emotionally taxing as they work to keep up with the sounds around them.
Sometimes words just get all mixed up and you just can’t understand the person. “It’s not like you put the implants on and you can hear just like a normal person,” he reminds me. “Sometimes words just get all mixed up and you just can’t understand the person.” Indeed, experts in field of auditory-verbal therapy stress that implant-wearers must be “hearing athletes” in order to thrive in the cacophonous world. Listening is not a passive endeavor, and pressure to keep up can be tiring.
In recent years, advancements in hearing technology have made it a little bit easier. My son now has the Naida CI Q90, a model from the California-based implant manufacturer Advanced Bionics. The implant, recently approved by the FDA, contains software that more effectively minimizes echo, wind, and reverberation sounds. It has Bluetooth capability, meaning that music, movies, and phone calls can be sent wirelessly into his device. It’s also capable of zooming in on a single voice in a noisy environment.
The implant has gone a long way towards helping him integrate more seamlessly into the everyday hearing world. At school, for example, the teacher's voice is transmitted to our son’s receivers via an FM system above all other sound, and a portable pen-shaped microphone on his school desk picks up small group conversations.
But for a tween, naturally, the biggest concern it is all about fitting in. My son’s hair is now deliberately long enough to cover his hearing devices. When asked how he enjoys music, he says that he likes the feeling of hearing what his friends are listening to.
“Maybe I’m not even hearing the same things as them because I have no idea how people hear,” he says, “but I have the feeling I’m really close to it.”
SOURCE
Alone in a Hearing World
What Is the Leading Cause of Child Abandonment?
History of Abandonment/Abuse - History tends to repeat itself and this is especially true of abuse and neglect patterns. Parents who experienced abuse, neglect or abandonment at the hands of someone when they were a child are more likely to repeat the pattern and abuse, neglect or abandon their own children. UNICEF estimates that 13 million children worldwide have been abandoned by both parents for various reasons, abuse and neglect among them. Watch video in behavioral problems for not learning in sign language and oppression: Alone In A Hearing World.
Cochlear Implants Fail... Lawsuits... Call Lawyer... Cochlear Implant Lawyer for Advanced Bionics and Clarion Devices. Get a free lawsuit review for Advanced Bionics cochlear implants and earlier Clarion models by completing the form on this page. A Deaf attorney is available to review your information and can discuss it by videophone (VP). The lawyers of Weitz and, Luxenberg P.C. have expanded litigation against Advanced Bionics related to defective Advanced bionics and cochlear implants implanted in young children and adults - http://yourlawyer.com/cochlear-implants-lawsuits
VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Deaf-Blind families for the Cogswell-Macy Act (H.R. 3535) in the United States.
WASHINGTON -- On September 17, 2015, a comprehensive BILL to reform the education of Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind or Visually Impaired, and Deaf-Blind students was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The bill was sponsored by Congressman Matt Cartwright (D- PA 17th), with original co-sponsors David McKinley (R-WV 1st), Mark Takano (D-CA 41st), Tony Cardenas (D-CA 29th), Kathy Castor (D-FL 14th), Alan Grayson (D-FL 9th), Michael Honda (D-CA 17th), Jared Huffman (D-CA 2nd), and Tim Ryan (D-OH 13th). H.R. 3535, the Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act, will amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to address the unique needs of these populations. This is truly a historic event, and we should be proud of our efforts to make this happen in the United States.
However, there still is much work to be done. The bill needs to gain the sponsorship of many more House members, and it needs to be introduced in the Senate. Please take a few moments to contact your Congressional members to ask them to sponsor this bill. It is easy to contact them through their web site, and you can use the sample letters. Be sure to tailor them to your particular situation. Cogswell-Macy Act information can be found at http://ceasd.org/child-first/alice-cogswell and http://www.afb.org/info/get-connected/take-action/12
Thanks for all you do to support Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind, Visually Impaired, and Deaf-Blind children in the United States.
WASHINGTON -- On September 17, 2015, a comprehensive BILL to reform the education of Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind or Visually Impaired, and Deaf-Blind students was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The bill was sponsored by Congressman Matt Cartwright (D- PA 17th), with original co-sponsors David McKinley (R-WV 1st), Mark Takano (D-CA 41st), Tony Cardenas (D-CA 29th), Kathy Castor (D-FL 14th), Alan Grayson (D-FL 9th), Michael Honda (D-CA 17th), Jared Huffman (D-CA 2nd), and Tim Ryan (D-OH 13th). H.R. 3535, the Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act, will amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to address the unique needs of these populations. This is truly a historic event, and we should be proud of our efforts to make this happen in the United States.
However, there still is much work to be done. The bill needs to gain the sponsorship of many more House members, and it needs to be introduced in the Senate. Please take a few moments to contact your Congressional members to ask them to sponsor this bill. It is easy to contact them through their web site, and you can use the sample letters. Be sure to tailor them to your particular situation. Cogswell-Macy Act information can be found at http://ceasd.org/child-first/alice-cogswell and http://www.afb.org/info/get-connected/take-action/12
Thanks for all you do to support Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind, Visually Impaired, and Deaf-Blind children in the United States.
VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Signing club helps Deaf student feel at home.
PEORIA, IL -- WMBD/CNN: Inside the library at Mark Bills School, class begins with the Pledge of Allegiance. But here, they’re doing things a little differently.
Students are using American Sign Language to say the pledge.
“It’s like they want to be like me,” said fifth-grader Rhemy Elsey, who was born almost completely Deaf. A set of cochlear implant help him hear, but he relies heavily on sign language and his interpreter, Tammy Arvin, to communicate.
“It’s tough for a kid that has an interpreter,” Arvin said. “Following them around all day, you know, especially if the rest of the class can’t really communicate.”
Rhemy’s classmate Dexyrae Clarke said, “I wanted to be able to talk to Rhemy, and I wanted to be able to communicate with him.”
That’s how the American Sign Language Club was born at the school - with a group of students who wanted to be able to talk to a friend.
“I was thrilled that they were interested and that they wanted to learn some sign language,” Arvin said, “and that they were taking some initiative to able to communicate more effectively with one of their classmates.”
And this is not like their Spanish or French classes - students say they are finding there’s a lot that goes into learning this language, and things aren’t always easy. Tabria Smith explained the difficulty.
“Sometimes you really want to talk while you’re signing, but then you have to get used to just using your hands instead of your mouth to communicate with other people,” Tabria said.
But in Rhemy, they have a teacher and friend, showing them that so much can be said without saying anything at all. “It makes me feel, like, happy,” Rhemy said. SOURCE
PEORIA, IL -- WMBD/CNN: Inside the library at Mark Bills School, class begins with the Pledge of Allegiance. But here, they’re doing things a little differently.
Students are using American Sign Language to say the pledge.
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“It’s like they want to be like me,” said fifth-grader Rhemy Elsey, who was born almost completely Deaf. A set of cochlear implant help him hear, but he relies heavily on sign language and his interpreter, Tammy Arvin, to communicate.
“It’s tough for a kid that has an interpreter,” Arvin said. “Following them around all day, you know, especially if the rest of the class can’t really communicate.”
Rhemy’s classmate Dexyrae Clarke said, “I wanted to be able to talk to Rhemy, and I wanted to be able to communicate with him.”
That’s how the American Sign Language Club was born at the school - with a group of students who wanted to be able to talk to a friend.
“I was thrilled that they were interested and that they wanted to learn some sign language,” Arvin said, “and that they were taking some initiative to able to communicate more effectively with one of their classmates.”
And this is not like their Spanish or French classes - students say they are finding there’s a lot that goes into learning this language, and things aren’t always easy. Tabria Smith explained the difficulty.
“Sometimes you really want to talk while you’re signing, but then you have to get used to just using your hands instead of your mouth to communicate with other people,” Tabria said.
But in Rhemy, they have a teacher and friend, showing them that so much can be said without saying anything at all. “It makes me feel, like, happy,” Rhemy said. SOURCE
VIDEO: Deaf News - New Mexico School for the Deaf and Deaf community opposes HM 21. A big win-win for the community in the state of New Mexico.
Today the New Mexico School for the Deaf (NMSD) and Deaf community came together to oppose HM 21, a controversial proposal to change the campus to a four-year college program. The motion was withdrew. NMSD Alumni Mark Ramirez fills us in what happened. Here's video in American Sign Language.
To view HM 21: http://bit.ly/1Sedgy0.
Transcript -- Hello, I’m at the Roundhouse, it’s an government building in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
There was just a proposal and a discussion. Check out the people here. See the NMSD community. Teachers, staff, students, and alumni came in big numbers to be supportive. Family, friends, and parents also came. It’s very inspiring. There’s more people around the corner.
What happened? One representative proposed HM 21, and in the language, it proposed NMSD be changed to a four-year college program, to offer more collegiate options other than Gallaudet.
Naturally, this change would negatively impact NMSD’s K-12 program, early intervention, outreach, and other services. Those services reach a multitude of students and people.
After the representative proposed it to the committee, the committee asked who was opposed to it. Many parents, student, alumni, students, staff, and faculty shared touching stories of their experiences and the importance of Deaf community, culture, and language - and the outreach services.
After this touching display, the committee asked who was in favor of HM 21. Nobody showed support for it. Some was neutral. In the end, the committee, including the representatives and the chair - discussed amongst themselves and asked HM 21 to be withdrawn. They said they might re-evaluate this later. They told the representative to work with the NMSD/Deaf community, to not work without them. This was a big win for us.
The final result: the representative withdrew HM 21. It’s over. But, we’re looking at the possibility that it might happen again in the future. We will stay vigilant. -- with Mark Ramirez. Source.
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Today the New Mexico School for the Deaf (NMSD) and Deaf community came together to oppose HM 21, a controversial proposal to change the campus to a four-year college program. The motion was withdrew. NMSD Alumni Mark Ramirez fills us in what happened. Here's video in American Sign Language.
To view HM 21: http://bit.ly/1Sedgy0.
Transcript -- Hello, I’m at the Roundhouse, it’s an government building in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
There was just a proposal and a discussion. Check out the people here. See the NMSD community. Teachers, staff, students, and alumni came in big numbers to be supportive. Family, friends, and parents also came. It’s very inspiring. There’s more people around the corner.
What happened? One representative proposed HM 21, and in the language, it proposed NMSD be changed to a four-year college program, to offer more collegiate options other than Gallaudet.
Naturally, this change would negatively impact NMSD’s K-12 program, early intervention, outreach, and other services. Those services reach a multitude of students and people.
After the representative proposed it to the committee, the committee asked who was opposed to it. Many parents, student, alumni, students, staff, and faculty shared touching stories of their experiences and the importance of Deaf community, culture, and language - and the outreach services.
After this touching display, the committee asked who was in favor of HM 21. Nobody showed support for it. Some was neutral. In the end, the committee, including the representatives and the chair - discussed amongst themselves and asked HM 21 to be withdrawn. They said they might re-evaluate this later. They told the representative to work with the NMSD/Deaf community, to not work without them. This was a big win for us.
The final result: the representative withdrew HM 21. It’s over. But, we’re looking at the possibility that it might happen again in the future. We will stay vigilant. -- with Mark Ramirez. Source.
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VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: RIT on TV - New classroom technology helps Deaf and Hard of Hearing RIT students.
ROCHESTER, NY -- WHEC-TV: New technology is being used at Rochester Institute of Technology to help students learn and communicate in and out of the classroom.
The new technologies include voice recognition apps, video remote-interpreting and captioning services, just to name a few. This is technology that students say is changing the way they're communicating both in an out of class.
The ability to fully hear is something some of these RIT students do not have, but the ability to communicate is something they do, and it just got a whole lot easier.
“The world is becoming more accessible to Deaf people,” says Rico Petersen, Assistant Dean and Director of the Department of Access Services. “Typically they might not know sign language, or they might prefer English instead of sign language, so we have a provider that is trained in specialized software. They go into class and type live what is being said.”
It starts with captioning services for entire classrooms - lectures scrolling on a screen in front of the students in real time. The technology can even be brought out of the classrooms and into the lives of the students at home, or with friends thanks to the Ava app, making group face-to-face conversations that much easier. People looking to download the AVA app can email Hello@ava.me and ask how to sign up or get more info.
Even for those one-on-one studying sessions, new video remote interpreting, or VRIS used.
“It's much easier and more clear using your expression and so forth rather than writing back and forth,” says Bryan ward, RIT gradute.
With 130 interpreters on staff and more than 4,000 hours of interpreting done a week at RIT, this new technology is needed. “It really is having an impact on the Deaf world because it makes access easier to come by,” says Peterson.
The entire Deaf community has access to this new technology. Professors say there are still some situations where interpreters work best, but the new technology is simply a way to make every-day actions easier. Source
ROCHESTER, NY -- WHEC-TV: New technology is being used at Rochester Institute of Technology to help students learn and communicate in and out of the classroom.
The new technologies include voice recognition apps, video remote-interpreting and captioning services, just to name a few. This is technology that students say is changing the way they're communicating both in an out of class.
To activate this feature, press the "CC" button.
The ability to fully hear is something some of these RIT students do not have, but the ability to communicate is something they do, and it just got a whole lot easier.
“The world is becoming more accessible to Deaf people,” says Rico Petersen, Assistant Dean and Director of the Department of Access Services. “Typically they might not know sign language, or they might prefer English instead of sign language, so we have a provider that is trained in specialized software. They go into class and type live what is being said.”
It starts with captioning services for entire classrooms - lectures scrolling on a screen in front of the students in real time. The technology can even be brought out of the classrooms and into the lives of the students at home, or with friends thanks to the Ava app, making group face-to-face conversations that much easier. People looking to download the AVA app can email Hello@ava.me and ask how to sign up or get more info.
Even for those one-on-one studying sessions, new video remote interpreting, or VRIS used.
“It's much easier and more clear using your expression and so forth rather than writing back and forth,” says Bryan ward, RIT gradute.
With 130 interpreters on staff and more than 4,000 hours of interpreting done a week at RIT, this new technology is needed. “It really is having an impact on the Deaf world because it makes access easier to come by,” says Peterson.
The entire Deaf community has access to this new technology. Professors say there are still some situations where interpreters work best, but the new technology is simply a way to make every-day actions easier. Source
VIDEO: Deaf News: A psychologist is calling for signing to be available as a ‘foreign language’ option for hearing children.
LONDON --
Dr Jim Cromwell said that learning British Sign Language (BSL) would benefit all students’ education and make life easier for Deaf people, bringing ‘extraordinary’ benefits for those without hearing.
In an ‘ideal world’ BSL would form part of the National Curriculum and be a compulsory element in mainstream schools, he added.
“Bilingualism gives a huge advantage in terms of thinking skills,” said Dr Cromwell, a clinical psychologist at Exeter Deaf Academy.
Having a wider population of people with BSL would make life easier those without hearing, he said. More than 900,000 people in the UK are severely or profoundly Deaf, according to the charity, Action on Hearing Loss.
Dr Cromwell also believes that those of the country’s 45,000 Deaf children who are taught in mainstream schools are not receiving the education they deserve.
“There is not the right support for them,” he said.
“They are being helped by teaching assistants with Level 2 BSL – that’s less than an O Level.
“Schools are getting away with that. There is the attitude of ‘they (Deaf children) are not doing well, but they are disabled, aren’t they?’
“Relying on education through spoken (rather than signed) lessons is like trying to learn maths A Level in Russian. Lip reading is 40 per cent guess work.”
Dr Cromwell, who has BSL at Level 4 – equivalent to degree standard – is believed to be the only clinical psychologist on the staff of a UK specialist school.
While a Deaf child ‘can do everything except hear’ many came to the Exeter school with attachment disorder, language delay, and behavioural problems because of a lack of access to BSL.
“They fall behind in primary school and are regarded as ‘problem students’,” he said. “Not all of our students are like that by any means, but we get those.”
Linguistic deprivation was one of the consequences of deafness that often began in the home as 90 per cent of children who were born Deaf had Hearing parents.
“Some (parents) will have never met a Deaf person, have no BSL and struggle to know what to do,” he said.
Their children were then learning BSL from a parent who was also learning the signing language. That might lead to learning deals that could give rise to behavioural problems, said Dr Cromwell.
Further problems might arise at schools without teachers qualified in BSL at a high level.
Part of the problem was that BSL was seen by many as a ‘pidgin’ form of English, instead of a language that was ‘heir to a rich cultural landscape’.
Widespread learning and use of BSL would help address many of those problems leading to an extraordinary increase in the well-being of Deaf children, said Dr Cromwell. Source
LONDON --
Dr Jim Cromwell said that learning British Sign Language (BSL) would benefit all students’ education and make life easier for Deaf people, bringing ‘extraordinary’ benefits for those without hearing.In an ‘ideal world’ BSL would form part of the National Curriculum and be a compulsory element in mainstream schools, he added.
“Bilingualism gives a huge advantage in terms of thinking skills,” said Dr Cromwell, a clinical psychologist at Exeter Deaf Academy.
Having a wider population of people with BSL would make life easier those without hearing, he said. More than 900,000 people in the UK are severely or profoundly Deaf, according to the charity, Action on Hearing Loss.
Dr Cromwell also believes that those of the country’s 45,000 Deaf children who are taught in mainstream schools are not receiving the education they deserve.
“There is not the right support for them,” he said.
“They are being helped by teaching assistants with Level 2 BSL – that’s less than an O Level.
“Schools are getting away with that. There is the attitude of ‘they (Deaf children) are not doing well, but they are disabled, aren’t they?’
“Relying on education through spoken (rather than signed) lessons is like trying to learn maths A Level in Russian. Lip reading is 40 per cent guess work.”
Dr Cromwell, who has BSL at Level 4 – equivalent to degree standard – is believed to be the only clinical psychologist on the staff of a UK specialist school.
While a Deaf child ‘can do everything except hear’ many came to the Exeter school with attachment disorder, language delay, and behavioural problems because of a lack of access to BSL.
“They fall behind in primary school and are regarded as ‘problem students’,” he said. “Not all of our students are like that by any means, but we get those.”
Linguistic deprivation was one of the consequences of deafness that often began in the home as 90 per cent of children who were born Deaf had Hearing parents.
“Some (parents) will have never met a Deaf person, have no BSL and struggle to know what to do,” he said.
Their children were then learning BSL from a parent who was also learning the signing language. That might lead to learning deals that could give rise to behavioural problems, said Dr Cromwell.
Further problems might arise at schools without teachers qualified in BSL at a high level.
Part of the problem was that BSL was seen by many as a ‘pidgin’ form of English, instead of a language that was ‘heir to a rich cultural landscape’.
Widespread learning and use of BSL would help address many of those problems leading to an extraordinary increase in the well-being of Deaf children, said Dr Cromwell. Source
VIDEO [CC] - The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam. This is education of the historical of violent against female in middle east.
Warning: Some viewers may find this video distressing. This video contains violence and graphic content may disturbing. "The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam" might contain content that is not suitable for all ages. The features images that may shock or sensitive audiences.
This post is purpose for education and awareness of violent against women. It is an utter disgrace that more people the world over - including and especially human rights and women's organizations are not speaking out loudly against the hideous, violent treatment of women that including Deaf and Hard of Hearing within Islam as well.
This abuse has been going on for centuries, and little has changed over the past decades since the non-Muslim world began to take notice of Islam. In fact, Muslim apologists including non-Muslim defenders are very vocal in denying that women are abused and oppressed within Islam, an assertion that is patently false and mendacious.
All of the apologies and apologetics in the world will not make these facts of violence against women go away, and day in and day out women and girls are treated abysmally in the Muslim world, simply because of their female gender and because the wanton abuse of women is endorsed by the Islamic holy book, the Quran/Koran, as well as various commentaries thereon, such as the Hadiths, to the evident exultation of misogynists worldwide.
The silence of the non-Muslim world in not criticizing Islam and its proponents especially in regard to the vicious, widespread and ongoing oppression and abuse of women and girls is deafening - and shameful.
Please read the booklet linked hereto by Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler, and pass it along to all those who love life and justice. We need many more voices like these hard-working individuals who are risking their necks to expose the harsh realities behind Islam.
The bottom line is that millions of women and girls are suffering every day within Islam, and not doing anything about constitutes a tacit endorsement of such suffering.
The Violent Oppression of Women
By Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, October 05, 2007
The booklet that you are about to read details some of the principal ways in which women suffer inthe Islamic world - often with religious and cultural sanction. Many of these crimes against women,
such as wife-beating, are ordained by the Qur'an itself; others, such as female genital mutilation and honor killing, are praised by Islamic clerics and hallowed by Islamic culture. That feminists in the West remain silent about this deeply ingrained and institutionalized mistreatment of women, and even ally with groups that have devoted themselves to the spread of Islamic law that justifies this mistreatment, is one of the unconscionable scandals of our time.
This article is a segment of a series being run as part of our nation-wide campus effort, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which will be held on 200 university and college campuses on October 22-26. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a national effort to focus on all the victims of Islamo-Fascist Jihad - as well as to counter the lies of the academic Left, which seeks to deny the evil, and even the very existence, of our enemy in this terror war. In this way, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week hopes to educate American students and to enable them to rally to defend their country.
In terms of the this booklet of our subject today, its cover is a still photograph that epitomizes Islamic oppression of women, and it has come to also epitomize the Western feminist non-response to it. The picture comes from a Dutch film called De Steen (The Stone), directed by Mahnaz Tamizi, and features the actress Smadar Monsinos. The Stone dramatizes the barbaric treatment of women in Islamic countries. It accurately depicts the reality of Islamic Sharia law regarding adultery: when a couple is caught in adultery, the man is jailed while the woman is stoned to death.
It is a telling indication of the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the Left that it has fastened upon our use of this picture to try to discredit Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, since the photo does not depict an actual event - as if women weren't being stoned to death under Sharia law in Iran and some other Muslim countries today. In reality, eight women are currently in prison in Iran awaiting death by stoning for the crime of adultery. A mother was sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran for adultery just last week. It is typical of the Left to try to cast opprobrium not upon those responsible for these harsh realities, but upon us who are trying to draw attention to them in the name of human rights.
It may have seemed inconceivable that feminists and their allies would defend those who bury women in the earth and kill them by throwing large stones at them, but that is the ultimate thrust of the Left's outcry against our use of this picture and against Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week in general. Such are the ironies of our troubled age.
In this booklet are realities that should be of paramount concern not just for feminists in the West and their allies on the Left, but of all those who are concerned with the universality of human rights and the dignity of every human being.
Final note from Acharya: I don't usually engage in the politics of "right v. left," but I have to say that, in the case of Islam, the lefty liberals have driven me and many others straight into the Neocon camp. For those who are bothered by the "staged stoning" of the pic above, please see this disturbing video of a real stoning - albeit of men, who likewise suffer horribly under the sadistic fascism called Islam.
This sounds familiar within Moses laws and Jehovah's Witnesses holy book, the Quran/Koran, as well as various thereon. It is so sadistic quotes Islamic bible, they really are fearful for the future of humanity when Muslim Brotherhood allow such old barbaric practices to continue. This manslaughter must be stopped and for crimes of violence against women as seen the photos.
The rest of the images here are unfortunately quite real, including the blood pool from a victim of female genital mutilation, the hanging of an Iranian woman from a crane, and the Iranian victim of a severe beating because she was not properly covered up (reproduced here with permission from Dr. Homa Darabi). I hesitate to post here some of the worst images, including that of the genital area of a victim of female genital mutilation. Source
Warning: Some viewers may find this video distressing. This video contains violence and graphic content may disturbing. "The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam" might contain content that is not suitable for all ages. The features images that may shock or sensitive audiences.
This post is purpose for education and awareness of violent against women. It is an utter disgrace that more people the world over - including and especially human rights and women's organizations are not speaking out loudly against the hideous, violent treatment of women that including Deaf and Hard of Hearing within Islam as well.This abuse has been going on for centuries, and little has changed over the past decades since the non-Muslim world began to take notice of Islam. In fact, Muslim apologists including non-Muslim defenders are very vocal in denying that women are abused and oppressed within Islam, an assertion that is patently false and mendacious.
Turn "Closed Captioned" On.
All of the apologies and apologetics in the world will not make these facts of violence against women go away, and day in and day out women and girls are treated abysmally in the Muslim world, simply because of their female gender and because the wanton abuse of women is endorsed by the Islamic holy book, the Quran/Koran, as well as various commentaries thereon, such as the Hadiths, to the evident exultation of misogynists worldwide.
The silence of the non-Muslim world in not criticizing Islam and its proponents especially in regard to the vicious, widespread and ongoing oppression and abuse of women and girls is deafening - and shameful.Please read the booklet linked hereto by Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler, and pass it along to all those who love life and justice. We need many more voices like these hard-working individuals who are risking their necks to expose the harsh realities behind Islam.
The bottom line is that millions of women and girls are suffering every day within Islam, and not doing anything about constitutes a tacit endorsement of such suffering.
The Violent Oppression of Women
By Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, October 05, 2007
The booklet that you are about to read details some of the principal ways in which women suffer inthe Islamic world - often with religious and cultural sanction. Many of these crimes against women,
such as wife-beating, are ordained by the Qur'an itself; others, such as female genital mutilation and honor killing, are praised by Islamic clerics and hallowed by Islamic culture. That feminists in the West remain silent about this deeply ingrained and institutionalized mistreatment of women, and even ally with groups that have devoted themselves to the spread of Islamic law that justifies this mistreatment, is one of the unconscionable scandals of our time.This article is a segment of a series being run as part of our nation-wide campus effort, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which will be held on 200 university and college campuses on October 22-26. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a national effort to focus on all the victims of Islamo-Fascist Jihad - as well as to counter the lies of the academic Left, which seeks to deny the evil, and even the very existence, of our enemy in this terror war. In this way, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week hopes to educate American students and to enable them to rally to defend their country.
In terms of the this booklet of our subject today, its cover is a still photograph that epitomizes Islamic oppression of women, and it has come to also epitomize the Western feminist non-response to it. The picture comes from a Dutch film called De Steen (The Stone), directed by Mahnaz Tamizi, and features the actress Smadar Monsinos. The Stone dramatizes the barbaric treatment of women in Islamic countries. It accurately depicts the reality of Islamic Sharia law regarding adultery: when a couple is caught in adultery, the man is jailed while the woman is stoned to death.It is a telling indication of the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the Left that it has fastened upon our use of this picture to try to discredit Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, since the photo does not depict an actual event - as if women weren't being stoned to death under Sharia law in Iran and some other Muslim countries today. In reality, eight women are currently in prison in Iran awaiting death by stoning for the crime of adultery. A mother was sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran for adultery just last week. It is typical of the Left to try to cast opprobrium not upon those responsible for these harsh realities, but upon us who are trying to draw attention to them in the name of human rights.
It may have seemed inconceivable that feminists and their allies would defend those who bury women in the earth and kill them by throwing large stones at them, but that is the ultimate thrust of the Left's outcry against our use of this picture and against Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week in general. Such are the ironies of our troubled age.In this booklet are realities that should be of paramount concern not just for feminists in the West and their allies on the Left, but of all those who are concerned with the universality of human rights and the dignity of every human being.
Final note from Acharya: I don't usually engage in the politics of "right v. left," but I have to say that, in the case of Islam, the lefty liberals have driven me and many others straight into the Neocon camp. For those who are bothered by the "staged stoning" of the pic above, please see this disturbing video of a real stoning - albeit of men, who likewise suffer horribly under the sadistic fascism called Islam.
This sounds familiar within Moses laws and Jehovah's Witnesses holy book, the Quran/Koran, as well as various thereon. It is so sadistic quotes Islamic bible, they really are fearful for the future of humanity when Muslim Brotherhood allow such old barbaric practices to continue. This manslaughter must be stopped and for crimes of violence against women as seen the photos.
The rest of the images here are unfortunately quite real, including the blood pool from a victim of female genital mutilation, the hanging of an Iranian woman from a crane, and the Iranian victim of a severe beating because she was not properly covered up (reproduced here with permission from Dr. Homa Darabi). I hesitate to post here some of the worst images, including that of the genital area of a victim of female genital mutilation. Source
VIDEO: Captioned - Deaf Awareness: Misconceptions of the Deaf world to educate the hearing community to see just how different, watch and learn from the educational video.
This is a video showing the various ways in which to appropriately interact with the Deaf community from a hearing world's perspective.
It seems like many of those who are of the hearing world do not know how to properly interact with a Deaf person, so here, we show examples of what not to do as well as what to do when someone does not know American Sign Language (ASL) and interacts with a Deaf person.
Please share your friends/families who's a hearing person #Deaf Awareness: Misconceptions of the Deaf World
This is a video showing the various ways in which to appropriately interact with the Deaf community from a hearing world's perspective.
It seems like many of those who are of the hearing world do not know how to properly interact with a Deaf person, so here, we show examples of what not to do as well as what to do when someone does not know American Sign Language (ASL) and interacts with a Deaf person.
Please share your friends/families who's a hearing person #Deaf Awareness: Misconceptions of the Deaf World
VIDEO: [CC] - The Holism: 'Why I Believe'. How to deal with religious people if you are an Atheists or Agnostics.
The video producer by theHolism also known as Barry Sewell posted on YouTube social networking for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community.
What is an Atheist? An atheist is a person who does not believe that any gods exist. Upon seeing numerous frictions and conflicts between religious Christians and non-believers I felt the urge and desire to share my story, a testimony, to explain why I believe in God.
I also wanted to offer some insights into several topics with hope to explain why some people may not believe in God and why I do. And to offer some insights on why some people might have lost their faith in church, religions, God and the Bible. There are logical explanation for the trends that we're witnessing. And what I believe we could do about it.
Video by theHolism
Disclaimer: The entire 45 minutes of this video was taken in four days and taken exclusively at the ranch. None of the video was taken from the Internet or any where else. What you will see is what happened during the filming. There were some special signs in the video. I said my prayers each day before I started filming.
Filmed, edited and subtitled by Barry Sewell. Voiced by Andres Sewell.
Reference: Deaf Church Pastor Signs 'I'm Atheist'
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The video producer by theHolism also known as Barry Sewell posted on YouTube social networking for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community.What is an Atheist? An atheist is a person who does not believe that any gods exist. Upon seeing numerous frictions and conflicts between religious Christians and non-believers I felt the urge and desire to share my story, a testimony, to explain why I believe in God.
I also wanted to offer some insights into several topics with hope to explain why some people may not believe in God and why I do. And to offer some insights on why some people might have lost their faith in church, religions, God and the Bible. There are logical explanation for the trends that we're witnessing. And what I believe we could do about it.
Disclaimer: The entire 45 minutes of this video was taken in four days and taken exclusively at the ranch. None of the video was taken from the Internet or any where else. What you will see is what happened during the filming. There were some special signs in the video. I said my prayers each day before I started filming.
Filmed, edited and subtitled by Barry Sewell. Voiced by Andres Sewell.
Reference: Deaf Church Pastor Signs 'I'm Atheist'
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VIDEO [CC] - Marlee Matlin On Deaf And Police Interaction in American Sign Language.
Actress Marlee Matlin, who is Deaf and the wife of a police officer, teamed up with ACLU and advocacy group HEARD, on an American Sign Language video to ensure Deaf people know their rights when interacting with law enforcement.
When police officers don't realize Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people can't hear them, it has led to police officers brutally assaulting Deaf people and other tragedies.
While this video aims to ensure that Deaf people know their rights, they can only do so much. It is the responsibility of police departments to ensure that their officers are adequately trained.
We are calling on the Department of Justice to conduct trainings with local police departments on how to better interact with the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. For more information, go to https://www.aclu.org/deafrights
"Driving While Deaf."
In January 2014, Pearl Pearson, age 64, was pulled over by Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers. He says he signaled he was Deaf and placed his hands on the steering wheel when state patrolmen brutally assaulted him for not following verbal orders he couldn't hear.
The district attorney announced that the patrolmen involved would not be charged for this brutal attack on the same day that he charged Pearson who has two sons who are police officers with resisting arrest.
The footage from this video is actual video of what happened to Pearson that night in January.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. When police officers don't realize Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people can't hear them, it has led to police officers brutally assaulting deaf people and other tragedies.
We are calling on the Department of Justice to conduct trainings with local police departments on how to better interact with the deaf and hard of hearing. For more information, go to https://www.aclu.org/deafrights
NOTE: During interrogations, the ADA requires qualified interpreters, but certified interpreters should always be used where they are available.
Related:
Police Brutality: Driving While Deaf
Deaf Elderly Man Brutally Beaten By Police
Actress Marlee Matlin, who is Deaf and the wife of a police officer, teamed up with ACLU and advocacy group HEARD, on an American Sign Language video to ensure Deaf people know their rights when interacting with law enforcement.When police officers don't realize Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people can't hear them, it has led to police officers brutally assaulting Deaf people and other tragedies.
While this video aims to ensure that Deaf people know their rights, they can only do so much. It is the responsibility of police departments to ensure that their officers are adequately trained.
We are calling on the Department of Justice to conduct trainings with local police departments on how to better interact with the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. For more information, go to https://www.aclu.org/deafrights
"Driving While Deaf."
In January 2014, Pearl Pearson, age 64, was pulled over by Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers. He says he signaled he was Deaf and placed his hands on the steering wheel when state patrolmen brutally assaulted him for not following verbal orders he couldn't hear.The district attorney announced that the patrolmen involved would not be charged for this brutal attack on the same day that he charged Pearson who has two sons who are police officers with resisting arrest.
The footage from this video is actual video of what happened to Pearson that night in January.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. When police officers don't realize Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people can't hear them, it has led to police officers brutally assaulting deaf people and other tragedies.
We are calling on the Department of Justice to conduct trainings with local police departments on how to better interact with the deaf and hard of hearing. For more information, go to https://www.aclu.org/deafrights
NOTE: During interrogations, the ADA requires qualified interpreters, but certified interpreters should always be used where they are available.
Related:
Police Brutality: Driving While Deaf
Deaf Elderly Man Brutally Beaten By Police
VIDEO: [CC] - TheHolism on Deaf Pastor Turned Atheist By What Authority ?
The video producer by theHolism also known as Barry Sewell posted on YouTube social networking for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community.
This video cover problematic issues facing numerous Christians, non-believers, and religious ministries who think they are entitled to do whatever they please. Numerous people do not understand the functions and purposes of sacred callings and authority-based duties / responsibilities.
In this video I explained why authority is so essential and why this Deaf preacher turned into an atheist. What went wrong in the very beginning of his journey to become a preacher? This is the age of entitlements. This society is full of people who think they are entitled to things that are sacred. Because of this we're turning into a dysfunctional society, which does not seem to know what to believe any more.
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The video producer by theHolism also known as Barry Sewell posted on YouTube social networking for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community.This video cover problematic issues facing numerous Christians, non-believers, and religious ministries who think they are entitled to do whatever they please. Numerous people do not understand the functions and purposes of sacred callings and authority-based duties / responsibilities.
In this video I explained why authority is so essential and why this Deaf preacher turned into an atheist. What went wrong in the very beginning of his journey to become a preacher? This is the age of entitlements. This society is full of people who think they are entitled to things that are sacred. Because of this we're turning into a dysfunctional society, which does not seem to know what to believe any more.
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Deaf Trash
Deaf Trash - Rip Off That Negative Label
VIDEO [ASL/CC] - Why Are Deaf Men So Violent ? Introducing The Engaging Deaf Men Project.
ADWAS (Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services) is proud to share the first official PSA from the EMP (Engaging Men Project). The PSA was created during the first Deaf men's weekend retreat hosted by ADWAS in Nov 2013 in which the purpose of the PSA is to introduce the EMP of Deaf men coming together as allies to ending violence against Deaf women in Washington. To learn more about the EMP at ADWAS, visit adwas.org/programs/engaging-men-project-emp/
This project was supported by Grant No. 2012-WM-AX-K010 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
As seen on article: Justice Department Announces $6.9 Million in Grants to Engage Men in Preventing Crimes Against Women
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ADWAS (Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services) is proud to share the first official PSA from the EMP (Engaging Men Project). The PSA was created during the first Deaf men's weekend retreat hosted by ADWAS in Nov 2013 in which the purpose of the PSA is to introduce the EMP of Deaf men coming together as allies to ending violence against Deaf women in Washington. To learn more about the EMP at ADWAS, visit adwas.org/programs/engaging-men-project-emp/
This project was supported by Grant No. 2012-WM-AX-K010 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
As seen on article: Justice Department Announces $6.9 Million in Grants to Engage Men in Preventing Crimes Against Women
Related Post:
Dating Violence: Do You Know The Signs ?
DeafHope - Deanne Bray's Rude Awakening
DeafHope - Do Men Understand Rape Culture ?
DeafHope - Stop Domestic Violence !
