ON HAND: Praise a Deaf person’s ASL today
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. A few weeks ago, I told a 16-year-old boy that his [...]
ON HAND: Being a basketball widow
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. We're well into basketball season, and I've become a basketball widow [...]
ON HAND: Handicapped license plates
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. The State of Virginia apparently believes that deaf people walk using [...]
ON HAND: VRS vs. Internet Relay
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. I feel old-fashioned, because I prefer using Internet relay rather than [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
ON HAND: NFSD
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. I've been a lifetime member of the National Fraternal Society of [...]
ON HAND: My most embarrassing moment
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy's ON HAND column. I was eight. We were having our fly-up ceremony, to mark [...]