The Importance of Storytelling to Address Deaf Disempowerment
Chapter One in Deaf Eyes on Interpreting (2018) edited by Thomas K. Holcomb and David H. Smith. View the ASL summary of this [...]
A Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People GalleryA Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People
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A Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of NADmag; download a PDF version of the article. Video description: Trudy, a white woman with shoulder-length [...]
#iamdeaf
In response to the recent AGB letter controversy, Robin Horwitz has created an #iamdeaf page on Facebook, and I was among the people he [...]
Speech given at a high school in 2015
The following is a speech I gave at a public high school's world languages ceremony in 2015. Read the article I wrote about this [...]
To Lead or Not to Lead? Sharing Power in the Field of Interpreting
This article originally appeared in the spring/summer 2014 issue of the RID VIEWS (Volume 31, Issue 2). View it as a PDF file: Suggs-Bowen_Article.pdf By Doug [...]
Black cloud no more?
This article originally appeared in Gallaudet University's The Buff and Blue's Oct. 24, 2009 issue. When I went through my father’s things after his [...]
Deaf Schools: TRUE-BUSINESS DEAF?—10 Years Later
Click to see full size. This article originally appeared at i711.com. In 1997, an article published in DeafNation Newspaper examined staff numbers [...]
Why Not For Kids, Too?
This article originally appeared at i711.com. An Alton Telegraph (Illinois) article reads in part: Springfield, Ill. (AP) - About 100 deaf citizens carried placards [...]
Sharing Our Good News – The Right Way
This article originally appeared at i711.com. As I sat in a hotel room a few weeks ago, I saw a commercial for Aleve, which [...]
Certify This!
This article originally appeared at i711.com. Nowadays, teaching American Sign Language has taken on more prestige than back when it was volunteer-taught, and standards [...]