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Hearing Aids 101
I belong to a writing group here in Salt Lake City. The writing center had it’s 10 year celebration last night and I was asked if I wanted to represent out little group. Sure! My topic is almost...
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Going to the Movies
Assistive Listening Device symbol I used to be an avid movie buff. I went to the theater once a week at least, and there were times when I knew almost every movie up for an Academy Award. I waited at...
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Listening and Hearing
You would think listening and hearing go hand in hand but they don’t. For those of us with hearing loss, we listen with our whole body; mind, eyes, what we have left of our hearing and sometimes...
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Making Our Holiday Season Accessible
The holiday season is upon us and many of us with hearing loss and late deafness have to figure out strategies to get us through the holiday parties, family gatherings and shopping. OH! you don’t have...
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We Are Everywhere and Approximately 300 Million People Strong, Globally……..
Have you ever turned to your favorite t.v. series and wished it were captioned? How many times have we sat through a movie wishing it were captioned on opening night? Did you miss your train...
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Communication Access Real-Time Translation (CART)
In the late 1990′s, I heard about CART, sometimes called real-time captioning, through people on my SWC list. I understood the concept but I didn’t fully get it. I knew it was an accommodation but I...
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Say WHAT?: the inadequacy of transcribed captions by Michele Linder
A few months ago, Cathy Zimmerman, a fabulous lady from my SayWhatClub home list, Connect, shared with our group her recent honor at being nominated, by Sister Ann M. Horvat, SCN, for her local...
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Hearing and Listening and Family….oh wow!
I’ve experienced and I’ve come to realize several things about myself and my hearing loss over the past year. First off, my hearing loss has deteriorated over the past year in my good ear. My “bad...
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THE SOCIAL WEB by Jeffrey Swartz
Spiders I can live without but spider webs I can look at all day long. Spiders are such wonderful artists, the way they spin such impressive designs. About ten years ago I started spinning my web –...
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday and now, Giving Tuesday by Pearl Feder
As we head into November, many people begin to prepare for the holiday season. Every year I attempt to take my mind off the burdens and stress of the holiday season through “giving.” Thank...
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Cutbacks for the Deaf in Israel and the Consequences for the Israeli Deaf...
The Hebrew version of this article can be accessed on the below link http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4326134,00.html The Deaf (in Israel) struggle against cutback in interpreting hours...
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WE ALL HAVE DREAMS by Pearl Feder
Last night, I attended the Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theatre Ensemble, Directed by Adina Tal, at the NYU Skirball Center. Nalaga’at has a permanent home located in Jaffa, Tel Aviv in Israel. While...
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A STORY OF FEAR by Michele Linder
I’ve been going through TED withdrawal. I remedied that this morning by making time for the things that make me think further, and TED Talks certainly do that. NOTE: If you click on the link below...
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Help SayWhatClub Stop Hearing Loss Bullying
By Shanna Groves / LipreadingMom.com As a person with hearing loss, I have seen bullying first hand. I’ve been called ‘stupid,’ ‘mule-headed,’ and have been nicknamed ‘La-La-Land Shanna.’ I simply...
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Why Not? by Michele Linder
The question on the Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning (CCAC) blog is, “Do You Ask? For Captioning or CART of course?”, and “If not, why not?” For me, the answer to “Why not?” is...
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Air Travel with Your Hearing Loss
by Rosie Geer, Flight Attendant and SWC Member I travel for a living. Every working day, I experience the wonders of air travel. I also know first-hand that travel arrangements don’t always go...
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Missing from the Menu by Michele Linder
The Kenguru Electric Car allows drivers to remain in their wheelchairs. I just checked out Mashable’s “10 Ingenious Inventions for People With Disabilities”, and I was quite impressed by many of the...
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Deaf Awareness Week – 10 People Speak Up About Bullying
As a person with hearing loss, I’ve been called ‘stupid,’ ‘horse-headed,’ and a person living in ‘La-La Land.’ I just want to be called by my name: Shanna. Or Lipreading Mom will do. And I am so not...
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It’s All Chinese to Me, by Michele Linder
I boarded my flight from Atlanta to Munich at around 4:00 in the afternoon. Thirty-five hours since leaving the house for the airport the previous morning. I was tired. So tired, I informed the...
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Why Not Caption?
by Michele Linder Here in the United States, we enjoy a high rate of captioning on television (though we still have our frustrations when we come across an exempt program or one where the rules have...
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