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		<title>Can we all just get along?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps Rodney King isn’t the best person to quote, but “Can we all just get along?” is what keeps running through my head as I learn of more and more stories of rivalries between deaf schools and programs – especially those in the same state.
I’m not talking about fun athletic rivalries, but rivalries where families and[.....]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trudysuggs.com/2010/02/03/can-we-all-just-get-along/</link>
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		<title>Black cloud no more?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared in Gallaudet University&#8217;s The Buff and Blue&#8217;s Oct. 24, 2009 issue.
When I went through my father’s things after his death, I found newspaper clippings about Gallaudet. They were mostly about the Deaf President Now (DPN) protest, but one stood out. It was from 1986, when Gallaudet College became Gallaudet University.
I was[.....]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trudysuggs.com/2009/10/24/black-cloud-no-more/</link>
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		<title>Dreaming about a wolf and a pumpkin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I sat in the waiting room at the doctor&#8217;s office today, I picked up the Spring 2009 issue of Mom&#38;Baby, a magazine published by FitPregnancy. I flipped through it without too much thought until I came across Dr. Michael Cohen&#8217;s advice column.
A question was asked: &#8220;What do you think about teaching babies sign language?[.....]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trudysuggs.com/2009/08/31/dreaming-about-a-wolf-and-a-pumpkin/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s in our blood.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I learned that the genetic research project at Gallaudet was easy to participate in. All I had to do was answer a bunch of questions and then have a kit sent to me to be done at my doctor&#8217;s office. Best of all, since I was a Gallaudet alumnus, this[.....]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trudysuggs.com/2009/04/05/its-in-our-blood/</link>
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		<title>Start 2009 with hope.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a lot of buzz in the media about how nonprofits are struggling financially because donations have decreased – way decreased. This translates, of course, to fewer services provided by nonprofits &#8211; which has affected organizations in the deaf community, some to extremes.
So, I figured I’d help start 2009 with hope, and get the word[.....]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trudysuggs.com/2009/01/05/start-2009-with-hope/</link>
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		<title>Anyone need some change?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a small but nice chunk of change that I want to donate to Gallaudet University. Given how the university has bombarded my family with literature begging for donations the past few years, I assumed they’d jump at the chance for some money.
Yeah, you’d think.
Instead, I’ve been given the runaround for over a year[.....]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trudysuggs.com/2008/09/23/anyone-need-some-change/</link>
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		<title>The splendid challenges of giving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared at i711.com.


In the February issue of the Discovering Deaf Worlds newsletter, Christy Smith and Dave Justice write about meeting two tremendously inspirational men, including Takeaki Kawamura. Take tells of how he is grateful for every inconvenience in the world.
This giving spirit is also what fellow Minnesotan Cuong Nguyen discusses in his[.....]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trudysuggs.com/2008/02/28/the-splendid-challenges-of-giving/</link>
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		<title>A thumbs up for District One Hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared at i711.com.
It was a question that lingered in many people&#8217;s minds, including ours. We all wondered, given that my husband is a third-generation deaf person and I second-generation, whether our new baby would be deaf or hearing. My husband and I threw out the obligatory &#8220;The important thing is our baby&#8217;s[.....]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trudysuggs.com/2008/01/30/a-thumbs-up-for-district-one-hospital/</link>
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		<title>Biting the hand that feeds them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared at i711.com.
Last summer, a colleague at a video relay services (VRS) provider contacted me to get names of local key contacts, because the company was looking to set up camp in the Twin Cities. Since I often use this VRS provider &#8211; let&#8217;s call it ABC VRS &#8211; I happily provided[.....]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trudysuggs.com/2008/01/09/biting-the-hand-that-feeds-them/</link>
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		<title>Deaf Schools: TRUE-BUSINESS DEAF? &#8211; 10 Years Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared at i711.com.
In 1997, an article published in DeafNation Newspaper examined staff numbers at 21 residential schools in the U.S. Only three schools reported having more than 40 percent of staff &#8211; including all levels of employees, such as maintenance, administrators, dorm staff and teachers &#8211; who were deaf or hard of[.....]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trudysuggs.com/2007/12/12/deaf-schools-true-business-deaf-10-years-later/</link>
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