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Not Everything is Captioned
Sometime ago, a Deaf friend asked me to interpret the 10:00 News. Captioning doesn’t always work with live TV feeds from on scene reporters, so I was glad to comply. “All of it,” she said. “Sure.” First, was a statement that the President said the country was on an even keel. Things were improving. This
A Follow-up to Our NYT Article on Noise Pollution
This subject is a tough one for a former rock-and-roll soundman to grapple with, but apparently the Hard of Hearing suffer intolerably in loud noise environments. Well, there goes the concert career. Anyway, a few days ago we posted an article that was originally published in the New York Times, regarding this issue. Here’s the
The School to Prison Pipeline Is Even Bigger for the Deaf
This is an article published in the New York Times. It states that children with disabilities are more likely to be suspended from school, than are non-disabled students. But, they didn’t need a study to prove this. They just needed to read DeafInPrison.com. We’re well familiar with both the school to prison pipeline, and the
Demand Justice for Lashonn White
In keeping with the Post-a-Day Challenge, I’ve got tons of stuff lined up for you. Not one but 2 follow-ups to yesterday’s post on Internet Interpreting, a story on the inequality in school suspensions of disabled students and Part 5 of the Felix Garcia interview. But for right now, there’s this: *** Lashonn White is
Inspired by a Lipreading Mom
A recent conversation with Shanna Groves and Marsha Graham regarding the Girl Scouts unwillingness to utilize interpreters, got me to thinking. The Internet is the greatest invention of the 20th century because it creates channels of access that were previously unavailable. Blog publishing is one example. Prior to the Internet, those of us who wanted
Too Many Prisoners – From Prisonmovement’s Weblog
This is a reblog of an article that appeared in Prisonmovement’s Weblog, over the weekend. For those of you not familiar with them, here’s what they say about themselves: Against the death penalty; the United States Criminal Justice System is flawed, broken, yet fixable; Prison Reform and Sentencing Reform should be major agenda’s for each
Image courtesy of Lipreading Mom Another example where a video interpreting service would work effectively. It’s free, widely available on both the Internet and through a closed circuit television system. This would eliminate the expense to G.S.A., and serve the needs of the Deaf members. I recently did an interview on DeafInPrison.com with a young
More Noise, More Hearing Loss – NYTimes.com
More Noise, More Hearing Loss – NYTimes.com. An interesting article on hearing loss and noise pollution.
Inmate Responds to One of Our Posts
In May, I did a post on the differences between county jails and prisons from the paralegal perspective. Here’s the link to that post. County Jails vs. Prisons I’ve added it here, to help provide some perspective. A few days ago, I received this response from a former inmate. As usual, if you have trouble
The One Lovely Blog Award
August 1, 2012 I received a message recently, nominating me for the One Lovely Blog Award by Marsha Graham of iPhonePhotoMaven at http://iphonephotomaven.wordpress.com/awards/#comment-410. (She publishes several other blogs – her fingers are bleeding on the keyboard.) Thank you, Marsha, for your nomination. I’m glad you enjoy DeafInPrison.com. We work hard at presenting news and information