http://inside.deafhub.com Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:15:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I read an interesting article just now addressing this most difficult of issues, whether a Deaf person is disabled or not, and why, or why not. It is an interesting issue because to the hearing world there is no doubt that a Deaf person is disabled - and in general they ... http://inside.deafhub.com/accessibility/deaf-disability-the-cultural-conundrum I had the privilege of attending a workshop last night run by Robert Adam (former president of Australian Association of the Deaf (AAD), now known as Deaf Australia). Robert is now in London reading for his PhD in Linguistics, but is back in Australia for a few weeks, and decided to ... http://inside.deafhub.com/current-affairs/deaf-identity-deaf-community-robert-adam One of the things that crosses my mind every time I think of our smoke alarm at home is ... what happens if I don't wake up? My husband is Deaf, my kids both have hearing losses, and sleep like logs (and in any case, studies have shown that kids often ... http://inside.deafhub.com/accessibility/move-over-strobe-alarms-its-the-smell-alarm I vowed and declared I was not going to blog on the cochlear implant ... at least not for the foreseeable future. But a dialogue that is occurring among Deaf bloggers, particularly those on DeafRead.com has resulted in an interesting comment that warrants further exploration. Tony, over on All the Young ... http://inside.deafhub.com/deafness/why-the-big-divide-why-many-in-the-deaf-community-react-strongly-against-the-ci Yesterday there was an despairing post on AllDeaf about a "sloping loss" (where the hearing loss was high frequency hearing loss) and that the audiologist had suggested hearing aids may not be the answer. For many people, when they find out they have a hearing loss the first thing they look ... http://inside.deafhub.com/deafness/hearing-aids-not-insufficient This story about "Nearly all Indigenous kids in NT have hearing problems" at the ABC caught my eye today... In Australia, the rate of permanent hearing loss is around 20%, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. But in Aboriginal communities particularly, and for all Aboriginal peoples in Australia generally the ... http://inside.deafhub.com/current-affairs/up-to-85-of-indigenous-kids-in-nt-experience-hearing-loss Can you remember life B.C.? Before Computers? What about before the internet? What did we do before we sat in front of computers all day, able to communicate as quickly with the other side of the world as we can the other side of the city? For deaf people, by which ... http://inside.deafhub.com/general/the-beauty-and-beast-that-is-the-internet