Alumni reunion

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Synopsis - You transferred from another college and graduated. Would you attend your former school’s alumni reunion events?

Using words that you only finger spell with…

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Synopsis –

 

Using words that you only finger spell with toddlers. When you are signing with a toddler and you begin to notice you are spelling the words out to your toddler. What happened to the signs are being associated with their words? Did you forget how to use signs or, you are not being exposed to new signs that are related to the objects such as animals, objects, etc.  For example: How would you sign Panda bear? Polar Bear? Llama? Camel?  Check my vlog out for depth discussion.

ASL Live! Poster

TRY OUT FOR ASL Live!

Try out for ASL Live–submit your audition tape/dvd no later than JUNE 12. For more information, go to www.nad.org/conf2008ASLLive

ASL LIVE!

Updated! NAD Seeks Talent to Showcase at the 49th Biennial NAD Conference

A News Release from the National Association of the Deaf
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Contact:
Anita B. Farb
Director, Communications and Operations
National Association of the Deaf
Email: www.nad.org/contactus

Updated! NAD Seeks Talent to Showcase at the 49th Biennial NAD Conference
SILVER SPRING, MD – The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is looking for deaf talent for a competition to determine the most theatrically presented material in American Sign Language (ASL) during ASL Live! on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 during the 49th Biennial NAD Conference in New Orleans!

Loosely based on the popular TV program, American Idol, this evening of great talent and fun will be hosted by former Miss Deaf America, Lauren Teruel Ridloff. Click here to check out vlog from Lauren about ASL Live!

ASL Live! Finals, sponsored by CSDVRS, will feature talented semi-finalists who will exhibit their creativity in the use of the American Sign Language in front of a large audience and a panel of distinguished judges. It will be the audience and the judges who will ultimately decide the winners. Performers will be judged on ASL translations, ASL delivery, performance, and originality. Submissions can include ASL poetry, storytelling, monologues or songs.

The top three ASL Live! winners will receive recognition/prize awards (first place - $2,000; second place - $1,500; third place - $1,000). Click here to view requirements for video submissions (new/extended deadline: Thursday, June 12, 2008).

ASL Live! Information

2008 NAD Conference Information

About the NAD
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) was established in 1880 by deaf leaders who believed in the right of the American deaf community to use sign language, to congregate on issues important to them, and to have its interests represented at the national level. These beliefs remain true to this day, with American Sign Language as a core value. As a nonprofit federation, the mission of the NAD is to preserve, protect, and promote the civil, human, and linguistic rights of deaf Americans. The advocacy scope of the NAD is broad, covering the breadth of a lifetime and impacting future generations in the areas of early intervention, education, employment, health care, technology, telecommunications, youth leadership, and more. For more information, please visit www.nad.org.

ASL Live at NAD Conference 2008!!!!

Hey Vloggers —

 

It will be a great opportunity for you to showcase your talent in ASL.

 

Check it out: http://www.nad.org/2008confASLLive

 

Be sure you check the vlog from that page

 

Best of luck!

 

-Netripized

They did it, why can’t we do the same??

Yo yo yo!!!  I can’t do the vlog this time. I’ll shoot the blog part here now.

I was surfing thru the net, reading articles about Democrat’s competition for the primaries. I came to this article from Los Angeles times, “Talking about race: Um, you first” written By Stephanie Simon and Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers on March 23rd, 2008.

I was reading the article about the racial issue being imposed on Barack Obama when he said this, “Sen. Barack Obama declared that whites must understand the black experience in America and blacks must appreciate the white perspective. Otherwise, he said, we face a grinding “racial stalemate.”" during one his address speech. (Ouch, that stings, eh?)

Regardless of that quote, It made me think about the issues between sexism vs. racism (ie: Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama), and I wouldn’t go there. But I want to discuss about other quote also came from this article.

“This is a very good time to put everything on the table,” said Abdullah Robinson, 64, a black man who lives in suburban Atlanta. “We don’t know nothing about each other, and we’ve been living together for hundreds of years.”

The immediate thought popped in my head when I read the comment from Abdullah Robinson was us; Deaf in our Deaf Community. Abdullah’s comments made me think how the black people lived together for so long time and continues help each other when they do not know each other. That does really apply us, Deaf in our community, Deaf Community.  We have been living around here for looooooonnnggg time!!!  I do not remember when we actually came together and fight the common cause (except DPN, mind you… I’m talking about, ASL taught as a language in elementary schools, hearing aids being covered in health insurance, communication access, and many more…)

Again, we have been around here for looooooooonnnnggg time and yet we notice we do bicker each other & pull ourselves down! What I meant this: Deaf, deaf, ASL user, CODA, Lip-Reader, ALDA, Oralist, Cued Speech, Rochester-Methodist, Cochlear-Implant users, and many many more who continues keep everyone of us separate from the collective as “Deaf COMMUNITY”!

C’mon, don’t fool yourself. Tell us, when was the last time you helped someone other than your own personal need to protect the Deaf community?

I ‘d like to share something; someone mentioned this to me while I was at a conference. A few deaf employees (Let’s label them employee A, B, C, and D) worked in same place, their boss decided to give this specific employee (employee “A”) a hard time. Boss decided to treat this employee “A” crap by requesting unnecessary duties. It has gotten out of the control, employee “B”, “C”, and “D” didn’t like what has been happening with employee “A”. They decided to turn their faces away. Employee “A” kept asking for help from their peers to advice what to do with this disgruntled boss. No one helped. That boss decided to give this employee “A” a boot. Bye bye! Ex-employee “A” lost their income. Employee “B” was next victim.  Employees “C” and  “D” did nothing. And I’m pretty sure you know what happened next.

What the heck? Why could employee “B, C, and D” file a report to their upper management about this situation? Surely, the company cannot have that stupid boss fire all four employees “A-D” based on their disability. Why didn’t they help that Employee “A” (and now to “B”) in the first place? They were afraid to lose their job!

*Gasp*! I’m sure you share the similar sentimental with me, “GASP!”

Will you help these employees??? Even though you don’t know these people, right?? (*ahem*, I have a hard time believing you would.)

We need to step out of our shells and help other people to protect the integrity of Deaf Culture.

Get out, and help others!

GO DEAF CULTURE, GO!

p.s. The article is located at this address: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-divide23mar23,0,6014444.story

Branching out from Deaf community to your hometown’s community. (Subtitled)

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Branching out from Deaf community to your hometown’s community

Note: In this vlog, I decided to give subtitle a shot. I admit, I find this process challenging.

Enjoy!

(Also, I look forward to your opinions!)

Google Yourself — Enjoy it! (How tight knit Deaf community is!!!)

Suggestion for NAD

President Scoggins & NAD Board,

Beautiful!! Well written letter!!!

Since AGBell had posted their public letter to PepsiCo at their website, they made quite contemning ASL users. Surely enough, they (AGBell & PepsiCo) heard a lot of comments from the ASL Community against their public letter to PepsiCo, AGBell suddenly removed their public letter from their website.

I wonder, will NAD going to write another letter, asking AGBell is going to retract their public letter to PepsiCo and the community publicly?

We need to make sure AGBell publicly retract their message to ASL community and everyone else (including PepsiCo) for their untruly actions toward ASL community.

We do not want AGBell just to remove their letter and did nothing afterwards. This action itself implies their (AGBells) intent still stand.

If we allow AGBell do nothing further after removing their public letter from their website, we are allowing AGBell win over us in this issue because they are actually pretending we are insignificant group of people. They are actually continuing to promote the negativeness attitude toward ASL. This issue with PepsiCo (the letter) still continues to linger in our community. The community will believe AGBell still stand on their ground regardless our responses to AGBell/PepsiCo.

So, I may suggest NAD to consider and draft another letter encouraging AGBell to write a retract letter to PepsiCo and the community.

Well written letter, and GREAT Vlog!!!

Respectfully submitted,

-Sean Gerlis