Cochlear Implants - Have We Cured Deafness ?

VIDEO [CC] - "Have We Cured Deafness?" Research being studied on the ASL and CI users at the University of Washington.

SEATTLE -- Like much of America, I was raised having minimal to no interactions with the Deaf community and I didn’t give it a second thought. That is, until I took two years of American Sign Language (ASL) in high school and a full year of ASL at the University of Washington. While completing these classes, I discovered that there is a very strong and rich sense of community within Deaf Culture.

Over the years, I have found myself troubled by how a group of people so large (approximately 1 in 20 people are Deaf or Hard of Hearing) could play such a minor role in America with stereotypes continuously dampening their career aspects. When the opportunity presented itself to create a video aimed to educate hearing people about the Deaf person’s inequality, I took it.



I created the “Have We Cured Deafness?” video as part of a class project within my Master’s program (Communication Leadership) at the University of Washington. I designed this three-minute video to both set the stage for and be the first of a series that will further break down stereotypes that plague the Deaf community.



I hope you not only take the time to watch “Have We Cured Deafness?” but that you also do the due diligence of looking into Deaf culture and how we can improve our systems to better include these amazing people. As stated in the video, I recommend StartASL.com to learn more about Deaf culture.



Director - Jacob Christensen.

Filming Assistant - Leigh Burmesch.



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Deaf Culture - Have We Cured Deafness ?

VIDEO [CC] - Have We Cured Deafness? ASLStart's video goes viral on social media in the Deaf Community.

StartASL: Like much of America, I was raised having minimal to no interactions with the Deaf community and I didn’t give it a second thought. That is, until I took two years of American Sign Language (ASL) in high school and a full year of ASL at the University of Washington. While completing these classes, I discovered that there is a very strong and rich sense of community within Deaf Culture.

Over the years, I have found myself troubled by how a group of people so large (approximately 1 in 20 people are Deaf or Hard of Hearing) could play such a minor role in America with stereotypes continuously dampening their career aspects. When the opportunity presented itself to create a video aimed to educate hearing people about the Deaf person’s inequality, I took it.



I created the “Have We Cured Deafness?” video as part of a class project within my Master’s program (Communication Leadership) at the University of Washington. I designed this three-minute video to both set the stage for and be the first of a series that will further break down stereotypes that plague the Deaf community.



I hope you not only take the time to watch “Have We Cured Deafness?” but that you also do the due diligence of looking into Deaf culture and how we can improve our systems to better include these amazing people. As stated in the video, I recommend StartASL.com to learn more about Deaf culture.



Director - Jacob Christensen.

Filming Assistant - Leigh Burmesch.



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If Deaf People Acted Like Hearing People

VIDEO [CC] - Parody - If Deaf people acted like Hearing people.



Deaf Youtube enthusiast, writer, sarcastic bitch sharing just a little parody video of what it might be like if us Deaf and Hard of Hearing people made the same kinds of comments towards Hearing people as they do to us.

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Deaf Couples Wedding ASL Song 'Chicken Fried'

VIDEO [CC] - Song 'Chicken Fried' in American Sign Language for Deaf couples wedding video going viral on social media in Deaf community.



American Sign Language entertainer, Brian Guendling would like to congratulate Alejandro and Nicole on a beautiful wedding. Guendling was the guest entertainers for the night as performed a 3 song performance. Just because Alejandro and Nicole are Deaf, he believe they can enjoy music just like everybody else in a very entertaining way. He met with the family before the wedding and the bride mentioned how it was a country themed wedding.



Most of you know, Brian Guendling was born and raised in San Diego his whole life so he had to go out and buy his first pair of cowboy boots and a country hat, and couples picked the songs they wanted him to perform. He would like to thank Rob Rowland And Blue Lens Productions for another fantastic video with subtitles.

Guendling have teamed up with his Deaf friend by the name of DC Davis. DC was born and raised in Waco, Texas. He turned Deaf at the age of 2 due to high fever that burst both eardrums. He’s known sign language all his life and loves sports. He comes from a family that was involved with music especially in church. He started signing songs in his church when he was younger and its been his favorite thing to do since then.



DC memorizes music a little differently than most people do. He feels the beat and reads the lyrics off a paper over and over. Just because he’s Deaf, he still can enjoy music just like everybody else. He moved to Austin in 1999 with his family where he was a 3 sport athlete at Texas School for the Deaf. He played basketball, football, and ran track.

Hey @zacbrownband have you ever seen your song Chicken Fried in sign language? The man I perform with is deaf! https://t.co/JbcR7tiJN5

— Brian Guendling (@BrianGuendling) November 26, 2015

They want to show their audiences that the Deaf and Hearing cultures can work together. As you all know, The last sign language video, Guendling posted was 6 months ago. In the last 6 months he received a lot of messages from people asking if he was still continuing the sign language. Guendling felt like if he wanted to continue this passion of his needed to get his fluency up and get a lot more educated.



Guendling ever took was his senior year of high school which was 4 years ago. All the sign language he learned was from associating himself around Deaf Culture and hanging out with many of his Deaf friends. So he decided it was time to take it to the next level.



Guendling acquired many Deaf friends to sit down and help him with his fluency. After 4 months he had learned a lot. But, Guendling decided he needed to meet with a professional. He decided to move back to San Diego for 5 weeks where he met with a very highly professional American Sign Language coach by the name of Rebecca Coleman.



Rebecca has been teaching ASL for more then 10 years and absolutely changed his signing game. Video 3 will be posted next week!! Stay tuned! Thanks! Source



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Being Deaf Person Is Weirder Than You Thought

Deaf News: Society has traditionally treated Deaf people like garbage, 1 of the top 5 reasons life as a Deaf person is weirder than you thought.

CRACKED -- There are over 500,000 Deaf people in the United States, but the only time we hear about Deaf Culture is when someone is making up sign language at presidential funerals, rioting, or teaching kids on Sesame Street.



As a result, the average person has no idea what being Deaf involves, and therefore life can get downright weird for anyone who can't hear like the rest of you. Well, I'm a sign language interpreter and an American Sign Language (ASL) graduate, and I'll try to give you a glimpse of how strange things can get...



#1. Society Has Traditionally Treated Deaf People Like Garbage.

For much of our history, society just didn't know what to do with Deaf people. In the B.C. era, the law of the Talmud denied Deaf people the right to own land, while St. Augustine in the early A.D.s made deafness a straight-up sin. It wasn't until the 1960s that interpreting for Deaf people was even a profession.



Before then, Deaf people relied on the help of family, teachers of Deaf people (like Helen Keller's Deaf-Blind teacher Anne Sullivan), and the occasional clergyman that learned some signs. If you didn't live in an area with a thriving Deaf community, you might as well be cut off from the world entirely.



Educators didn't have a problem with Deaf people until the 1880 Conference of Milan. A bunch of hearing people and one token Deaf guy got together in Italy to figure out just how Deaf people ought to be educated. You can sum up their conclusion as "Fuck sign language, just try real hard to speak." Even today, many Deaf people remember having their hands tied and wrists slapped to stop them from trying to sign.

This, as you can imagine, made life a lot more difficult for Deaf people and their families. From many (god-awful) parents' standpoint, it was easier to ship them off to a different country or just put them in an institution. To make matters worse, around the same time, Alexander Graham Bell was running amok.



The same guy who invented the telephone was actually an inventor/douchebag on par with Thomas Edison. And, like the douchiest bags of his day, Bell was really into the eugenics movement (Hitler found his work inspirational).



He spent his life pushing legislation that would force Deaf people to undergo surgery to make sure they couldn't have children together and make a "Deaf Race." Fearing this day, Bell pushed for the abolition of sign language because it brought Deaf people together. (Oddly enough, Bell's own mother and wife were Deaf. So yeah, probably some awkward holidays for that family.)

This should help explain why Deaf people are wary of anyone who claims to be able to "fix" them. Big-D Deaf people often oppose cochlear implants, and it isn't because they're anti-technology.



It's because they have a distinct culture that people have tried to wipe out. It's not easy feeling like you're doing a pretty damned good job of getting by in life, only to hear a whole group of people look at you and scream, "We have to stop any more unspeakable horrors like this from existing!" ...Read More: 5 Reasons Life as a Deaf Person Is Weirder Than You Thought - Cracked.com.



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A Hearing Son In Deaf Family 'I'd Rather Be Deaf'

VIDEO [CC] - CNN Films - A hearing son in Deaf family: 'I'd rather be Deaf'

SAN FRANCISCO -- CNN: Meet the Pedersen family: parents Rod and Jamie; and the children: Zane, Jax and Kaleb. They were all born Deaf, except Kaleb who at age 20, is the oldest child.



"Obviously, I didn't choose to be the only hearing one," Kaleb said on the phone from their home near San Francisco in Pleasanton, California. Thanks to his upbringing, Kaleb prefers Deaf Culture over the Hearing World. "There's more of a sense of belonging in the Deaf culture. They just feel closer together than how hearing people act with each other."



The Pedersens are featured in CNN Films' new Digital Short titled, "All-American Family." They're among an estimated 1 million so-called "Functionally Deaf" people in the United States, and 70 million worldwide, according to federal and United Nations stats.

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Long-established Deaf Schools in and around places such as San Francisco, Rochester, New York; Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles have led to large pockets of Deaf residents in those cities. Many hold on tight to their Deaf identity and Deaf culture.



That's "Deaf" with a capital "D." That's how the community spells it.



Since childhood, Kaleb's ability to hear - along with his command of American Sign Language has defined much of his role in the family. His first language was sign language - English came later. "He's like half deaf inside and hearing on the outside," his mom Jamie Crowley wrote CNN in an e-mail. "Kaleb is naturally our ears."



When the family meets at restaurants, Kaleb orders for everybody. When the doorbell rings, he answers it.



When hearing people ask Kaleb annoying questions such as, "Do you ever wish your family could hear, like you?" - he doesn't get upset... Read More: view the film on the CNN Digital Shorts website.

National Geographic - Deaf Culture in Cambodia

VIDEO [CC] - Erin Moriarty Harrelson, The Fulbright-National Geographic Fellow Studies Deaf Culture, Documenting the Deaf Experience in Cambodia.

PHNOM PENH -- Erin Moriarty Harrelson, 2014-15 Fulbright-National Geographic Fellow in Cambodia, tells us about her time studying Deaf Culture in Cambodia.



The Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship was launched in 2013 as a new component of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.



It provides opportunities for U.S. citizens to participate in an academic year of overseas travel and digital storytelling in up to three countries on globally significant theme. This Fellowship is made possible through a partnership between the U.S. Department of State and the National Geographic Society.

Through the Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship, Fulbrighters will undertake an in-depth examination of a globally relevant issue, comparing and contrasting how that issue is experienced across borders.



Utilizing a variety of digital storytelling tools, including text, photography, video, audio, graphic illustrations, and/or social media, Fellows will tell their stories, or the stories of those they meet, publishing their work on a dedicated blog hosted on the National Geographic.



Stories deemed by National Geographic to be of interest or merit may be considered for publication on other National Geographic platforms... Read More: http://exchanges.state.gov/us/program/fulbright-national-geographic-digital-storytelling-fellowship



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Experiences of Siblings of Deaf Children

VIDEO [CC] - Full Documentary: Experiences of siblings of Deaf children.



Experiences of Siblings of Deaf Children | New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) version - What is it like to be the sibling of a Deaf child in the family? What can I do as a parent to help them? A set of research information and advice from siblings of Deaf children growing up.

Experiences of Siblings of Deaf Children - Full Documentary with Captions.

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5 Deaf Myths Busted With Amanda McDonough

VIDEO [CC] - 5 Deaf myths busted with Deaf actress Amanda McDonough.

Actress Amanda McDonough answers some questions from her last video and talks about 5 common Deaf myths in American Sign Language and with subtitles.

Review:

1. Amount of hearing loss differs between individual Deaf people. Deaf doesn’t mean complete Silence.

2. Some Deaf people can talk. Some can and chose not to and others never learned to Speak.

3. Not all Deaf people know Sign Language.

4. Deaf people can drive and get Drivers Licenses.

5. You can’t tell someone is Deaf just by looking at them.



Check this out - Five Ways to Communicate with a Deaf Person by Deaf Actress Amanda McDonough.



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Deaf People For Dummies - aka Hearing People

VIDEO [CC] - Social Awareness Message - Hearing People For Dummies.



A hearing blogger Steph Hall shares the social awareness about Deaf and Hearing people in society.



It shares their difficulties and how they overcame their struggles by hearing people.

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Any questions, please comment down below and she'd love to hear your experiences. Steph Intro & Deaf Awareness- https://youtu.be/yY17oEf9e9A



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Jabaar Mohamed Focuses On Deaf Awareness

VIDEO [English Subtitles] - Deaf advocacy Jabaar Mohamed focuses on Deaf Awareness in South Africa.



Expresso - With the end of Heritage Month, we also say goodbye to National Deaf Awareness Month, which seeks to recognise the Deaf people in South Africa community, as well as look back at the achievements of pioneers in Deaf Society.

Jabaar Mohamed is a Deaf individual who has risen above and the obstacles he has faced over the years, and is now advocating for the rights of his fellow Deaf South Africa Community. Please visit our website http://www.expressoshow.com.



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Deaf, Gay and Angry - September 22, 2015 Tidbits

VIDEO: Ricky Taylor's ASL Storytelling, September 22, 2015 Tidbits.



The video producer by openly Deaf Gay blogger Ricky Taylor aka Ridor9th shares on social media in ASL covers:



1:04 - About Gastric Sleeve Surgery Progress

5:06 - Food & Drinks Funeral

9:45 - My Chinese XXL Shirt

13:42 - Craig Phillips AKA DVTV's DeafAynRand

17:47 - About Frederick Deaf Community

25:45 - The New ASL Sign for Culture

27:58 - Deaf Columnist 4 Frederick News-Post

This is it - You've reached the place that perhaps the only Deaf Gay man that knew almost ... everything about your lives. Enjoy the ride. Cheers, R-



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Deaf Film 'Gesto' Full Documentary

VIDEO [English Subtitles] Documentary film 'Gesto' a young Deaf, who aims to be a film director.

Gesto (2011) - Antonio Borges Correia is eighteen years old and he’s profoundly Deaf. He wants to study directing, outside of Portugal, to become a filmmaker and make movies for the Deaf and hearing impaired.



This is his dream, but every dream has a price. In his case, self-doubt and uncertainty about the Deaf community to which he belongs.

At the same time, he experiences his first love with Irina: a young Deaf girl. She doesn’t understand António’s desire to leave his school and country. For the first time, the world is collapsing around António.



Losing the world to conquer the universe, where Deaf and Hearing individuals find themselves in a single and same gesture. He continues to explore this manner during the following year with “Sign” (Gesto), a film about a young Deaf, who aims to be a film director.



IMDb Info - Gesto (2011) António Borges Correia Film.

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Deaf Backpackers Travel - Deafying Stereotypes

Deaf News: How can you survive in this world if you don’t know how to communicate or drive? Deaf people can do anything, except hear!

Two Scots Abroad - These are the most common questions we get asked throughout our lives. So, you can imagine how people react initially when they find out that we wanted to travel.



“Isn’t it too dangerous for you to travel?” Our parents’ utmost fears. They feared that since we aren’t capable of hearing certain surroundings, that there may be a risk to our lives. For instance, they feared that we wouldn’t be able to hear oncoming speeding cars.



The truth is: Deaf people can do anything, except hear. What people tend to forget or may not realise is that although we cannot hear, our other senses are heightened. We naturally developed other senses more strongly - in particular, our vision. We develop skills such as reading lips, facial expressions and body language.



However, we put off travel for a long time because of the fears that society and the media instil into our conscious. One day, we both decided to face that challenge and prove to others that Deaf people are capable of travel. Thus, our blog, Deafinitely Wanderlust, was born.



Through our adventure, we conquered not only the language barriers but communication barriers as well. In comparison to Hearing people, we naturally picked up their local gestures faster because our voices are our hands. We can also distinguish through body language when locals are nervous, annoyed or even lying... See more with photos: http://twoscotsabroad.com/deafying-stereotypes-deaf-travel



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Deaf Culture - Deaf Knock

VIDEO: Short Film: Deaf Culture - Deaf Knock.



Check out the funniest, hottest, cutest Deaf actress, it will be worth to watch comedy video clip. Mitch Bergsma's new humor video on YouTube, he is also deaf, to educating and awareness about the life as a Deaf. Please watch & share!



Deaf Actresses: Teather (knocking on door) , Roxy (came out of the house)

Actor: Chase (playing video game)

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Sign Language Of The Deaf World

VIDEO: Sign Language of the Deaf world. Signed in countries.



There are two hundred sign languages in use around the world today. Deaf sign languages, which are the preferred languages of Deaf communities around the world; these include village sign languages, shared with the Deaf-community sign languages.



Check this out at Sign Language Countries. List of sign languages: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sign_languages



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Gill Sheats Is Proud To Be Deaf Storytelling

VIDEO [ASL/CC] - Gill Sheats is proud to be Deaf storytelling.



"I am Proud to be Deaf" is a story from Gill Sheats.



This an excellent model of Deaf personal narratives that teachers can use to assist students in building background/world knowledge.



Personal narratives also provide opportunities for developing comprehension skills (retelling, questioning, making inference, summarizing, creating evaluative responses...)

The Blind, The Deaf and The Mute - Short Film

VIDEO [CC] - The Blind, The Deaf and The Mute - Short Film.



A filmmaker's career hangs in the balance as two bums acquire something new. Watch with headphones for best experience. Written, directed, produced, shot and edited by Max Ding.



Starring:

Will Crabb - Kai Crabb

Khanh Nguyen - The Boy

Kenton Reeder - Charliey

Tony Nguyen - Terry

Madiyar Snazell - Receptionist

Sam Wen Hua Huang - Sam Wen the Producer

Gareth McCrum - Gareth McCrum the Host.

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ASLized 'Through the Hands'

VIDEO: [ASL/CC] - ASLized 'Through the Hands'



ASLized fosters the integration of American Sign Language (ASL) educational research into visual media and literacy. The main objective is to produce teaching and learning materials in ASL with two focuses ASL literature, preserving culture and history and ASL Linguistics, promoting a better understanding of the complex structure and use of sign languages.



ASLized - 'Through the Hands'

Signed by Erica Tara Lily Parker

Camera by Andre Otalara

Directed and edited by Sonia Pivac.

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Death of American Sign Language ?

VIDEO [ASL] - James Dee: Death of American Sign Language ?



James Dee's new video on YouTube to educate about the knowledge of American Sign Language. Good News for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people about ASL death.

James Dee, who is a Deaf, which is issuing a call to action, inviting community to be part of the solution to explain why he is doing a good cause, to educating and awareness about the American Sign Language