Archive for December, 2003


ON HAND: Big Captioning Brother is watching you

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
Is it just me, or does the MCI commercial on television worry you, too?
It’s the one with a guy singing praise to MCI or whatever he’s saying. I have no idea what he’s saying because MCI, instead of captioning the commercial, has chosen[.....]



ON HAND: Odds and ends

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
These are actual incidents that took place within the past few months.
At a NFSD brunch I recently attended, we were told of a conversation that an interpreter had overheard. The Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf girls’ basketball players had creamed a hearing[.....]



ON HAND: Deaf of Deaf

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
I can’t count how many times I’ve been at gatherings, sitting in a circle chatting, and suddenly realize that most of the people in the circle have deaf parents. I’ve always been fascinated by the phenomenon of deaf people who have deaf[.....]



ON HAND: Hearing dogs

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
As I walked into Target, I saw a beautiful yellow lab in front of me wearing a yellow hearing dog vest. I quickly checked if the woman walking the dog was anyone I knew, but she wasn’t. She went to the[.....]