We Southlanders been rattled big time this morning with the subterranean rumbler below Chino Hills.
But, by the afternoon has passed, I get a lot of communications from deaf people. This wasn't about the quake, it was about the coffee settlement, big enough to picture an interesting aftershock.
Last February I published on my other blog about an opportunity to participate in the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf settlement.
You can see that at http://www.deafadvocacy.org/blog/2008/02/for-those-who-attended-our-deaf-asl.html
A good number of people got the forms from us.
Today we got checks in the mail almost $2,000 each.
I contacted people we gave the forms out to see if they got their checks.
The thing I find interesting that most people who grew up in American Sign Language (ASL) didn't get the checks, instead they got a letter 3 months ago from the consultant stating their form was incomplete. Did they understand that? NO. They're still waiting for their checks. They're not getting them because they didn't fix their forms because they didn't understand the letter they got. The deadline to fix their forms has passed and they never got to understand that too. This clearly synonymizes ASL with illiteracy. The forms were in simple 2nd-3rd grade level.
The others who didn't grow up in an ASL only environment got their checks today. They're happy and thankful for my assistance.
From this I can tell theres a big difference between those who got the checks and those who didn't and that difference is ASL itself.
This is one of the biggest frustrations faced by people who grew up in an ASL only environment, and one of the heartbreaking disappointments faced by people trying to help them, like myself.
The solution is to become literate and I honestly believe that ASL clearly stands in the way.
Richard Roehm
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Deafread Guideline Changes A 'Lil Bandiaid
Deafread's guideline changes amounts to a tiny bandiad trying to cover a huge wound.
Deafread needs to set up a system that prevents them from being misled, or tricked, by deaf bullies ganging up on someone to get banned and deafread istself from being tricked into functioning as a harrassment tool against a blogger.
We have seen deafread being tricked by bullies in to banning people and we have seen deafread be used as a harassment tool against bloggers.
These require a real big bandaid and the bandaid deafread is proudly showing of is too tiny to cover a big wound.
Richard
Deafread needs to set up a system that prevents them from being misled, or tricked, by deaf bullies ganging up on someone to get banned and deafread istself from being tricked into functioning as a harrassment tool against a blogger.
We have seen deafread being tricked by bullies in to banning people and we have seen deafread be used as a harassment tool against bloggers.
These require a real big bandaid and the bandaid deafread is proudly showing of is too tiny to cover a big wound.
Richard
Monday, July 21, 2008
Island Of Sanity In a Deaf Sea Of Chaos
Yeah I hate to break my silence, in fact I've been video blogging our booth at the county fair for a while.
Whats been spinning around deafhood is noted. The confusion, the white flags popping up from notable deafhood bloggers lends credence to the theory that the ASL minority prefers to chew down their leaders and messengers than develop constructive discussion of the issues they present. With me being banned from deafread for a while, they cant point the finger at me any more. Instead they point it at others and this started the domino effect. Soon almost all deaf blogging leaders were under attack.
This has caused notable bloggers and video blogers, most notably the deafhoodists, to leave the deafread site.
You cant find inclusion at deafread, you cant find constructive dialogue and teamwork there either. The deafread leadership clearly makes the definition the word dysfunctional. Deafread represents a big crack on the surface of the ASL planet and its getting bigger and bigger every day.
Given all this, I'm happy to be vacationing on an island of sanity in the middle of a deaf sea of chaos.
Whats been spinning around deafhood is noted. The confusion, the white flags popping up from notable deafhood bloggers lends credence to the theory that the ASL minority prefers to chew down their leaders and messengers than develop constructive discussion of the issues they present. With me being banned from deafread for a while, they cant point the finger at me any more. Instead they point it at others and this started the domino effect. Soon almost all deaf blogging leaders were under attack.
This has caused notable bloggers and video blogers, most notably the deafhoodists, to leave the deafread site.
You cant find inclusion at deafread, you cant find constructive dialogue and teamwork there either. The deafread leadership clearly makes the definition the word dysfunctional. Deafread represents a big crack on the surface of the ASL planet and its getting bigger and bigger every day.
Given all this, I'm happy to be vacationing on an island of sanity in the middle of a deaf sea of chaos.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Cruising Over The High Peaks Of Life
I will be taking a hiatus, a break, from blogging and video blogging until the end of August.
The Orange County Fair starts today and lasts for 3 weeks. We'll be focusing on promoting our agency, the Hearing For Life Foundation, and positive communication options for hearing impaired people especially the babies.
The community response to our 2nd group home in the past week has been overwhelming. Supermarkets donated hundreds of dollars, people donated new refrigerators, people donated sofas, paint, and carpeting. Even a major pet store chain donated supplies for the service animals.
One can accomplish a lot more deaf advocacy not with blogs and video blogs, but with good old fashioned word-of-mouth over TTYs.
This will be my signoff message.
Marvin Miller, I have a better capability of starting a 'city' of hearing impaired residents than you do. The first impressions the authorities are making of my group homes so far has been more than just positive. I can replicate this on a large scale using existing apartment structures, and the HM Foundation will be helping me do it in the fall. I don't have to do it from scratch and at least not in a tornado alley like you wanted to do in the first place.
See you all in September!
Richard
The Orange County Fair starts today and lasts for 3 weeks. We'll be focusing on promoting our agency, the Hearing For Life Foundation, and positive communication options for hearing impaired people especially the babies.
The community response to our 2nd group home in the past week has been overwhelming. Supermarkets donated hundreds of dollars, people donated new refrigerators, people donated sofas, paint, and carpeting. Even a major pet store chain donated supplies for the service animals.
One can accomplish a lot more deaf advocacy not with blogs and video blogs, but with good old fashioned word-of-mouth over TTYs.
This will be my signoff message.
Marvin Miller, I have a better capability of starting a 'city' of hearing impaired residents than you do. The first impressions the authorities are making of my group homes so far has been more than just positive. I can replicate this on a large scale using existing apartment structures, and the HM Foundation will be helping me do it in the fall. I don't have to do it from scratch and at least not in a tornado alley like you wanted to do in the first place.
See you all in September!
Richard
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