This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
Last week, I called my grandmother via Internet relay. We usually IM or e-mail, but because her computer is broken we’ve had to resort to the relay. I hate using relay with her, because her personality seems to change with every Communication[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
When I go out with a signing hearing person, I’m often unsure of protocol for ordering. With deaf people, it’s a given that we’ll order for ourselves. With hearing people, I prefer to order for myself–but what if the situation becomes silly and[.....]
This aoriginally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
So what’s the deal with the name contest for Sorenson VRS?
When I saw the announcements, I thought, “Not again!” In my original article about Holly Daniel, the hearing woman who faked being deaf for years and landed a Saturn car commercial where she[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
At Deaf Way Illinois in Chicago two weekends ago, I watched TWO WORLDS APART, a short movie produced and directed by Bernard Bragg.
The movie is about a respected leader in the deaf community, Robert Wilder (Bragg), who is confronted by his former[.....]