I spent this morning cleaning DeafRead’s feeds. Updating feeds that hasn’t been blogged on for more than 6 months so that they’re checked once every 24 hours as opposed to every hour. Disabling feeds of blogs that died. Tidied up and uncluttered, remaining are 602 active feeds. Going through them is walking down the memory [...]

Here is the link: Loud and Clear: Metro Station Ad Targeting Deaf is Big Hit. The vlog mentioned in the article is here. Express Night Out is a Washington D.C. local newspaper. The Deaf World is small, right? My daughter attends class with the author’s nephew, who are both KODAs.

Governor Cuomo’s budget proposal threatens the existence of schools for the deaf in New York State. I appeal to every one of the decision-makers in the Legislature to resist this proposal. My name is Bernard Bragg. I graduated from the New York School for the Deaf, better known as “FANWOOD”, in 1947 – more than [...]

Leah Katz-Hernandez wrote for the White House Blog. This is such an accomplishment for a deaf blogger, to appear in one of the world’s most important blogs. There is no stopping Leah Katz-Hernandez. She was profiled by her alma mater, Gallaudet University, volunteered as a vlogger for National Association of the Deaf (NAD), and teamed [...]

Alexander Graham Bell was an Oral Extremist. Mike McConnell is NOT a Oral Extremist. AGBell’s position on Oral Education is actually the reason the plaque honoring him at NTID was removed. I wrote a Letter to the Editor and it was published in RIT’s student publication, “Reporter“, on April 14, 2000. An excerpt: Bell strongly [...]

Recently Candy wrote a post re-accounting some of the events that took place around the time of DeafRead’s birth. I would like to, for once and all, tell you how DeafRead came about. This is from the horse’s mouth. I saw Jared Evans at the NAD conference in Palm Springs. At the time, he was [...]

Gallaudet University is hosting its first film festival the weekend of November 4-7, 2010. The World Deaf Cinema Festival will feature Marlee Matlin and Producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. For more information and videos, go to: wdcf.gallaudet.edu (I will be moderating a forum, “Deaf Images in Cinema” at the festival).

I was asked by someone involved with the TV show to post this on y3. ———— ABC Family is looking for an amazing young deaf actress to star in a new TV series (and two male deaf actors too)! The show revolves around Daphne, a smart, confident and well-adjusted deaf teenager who has her world [...]