Check out this video of my little one using baby sign 🙂 He has been signing for booby since about 5 months old. It started with squeezing my finger or boob and progressed to making fists, and then finally to the opening and closing repeatedly of his fist to...
So my sister in law came across a deaf blog ranting about some dude from The Voice, Andy Dexterity doing Auslan when he is not deaf. There was a lot of anger about cultural appropriation and comments about Andy signing badly. It prompted my interest because obvious...
https://youtu.be/qFcFpWzIQNk First, this is an excellent and well done video, everybody needs to watch it! I'd like to touch on my first experience of this video as it completely slammed me. It was used as an educational tool in a support coordination course I was...
People keep calling my phone and I've finally worked it out! Deaf people can't possibly own phones, and this must be common knowledge! Of course!! This totally explains why there will be difficulty explaining to a caller why the deaf phone owner cannot come to the...
No really. I've removed names for privacy as this isn't about any of these individuals personally, but rather the social/cultural context of this discourse. Here are the highlights for those of you without the ability to see the image posted below: "I wonder how...
I watch subtitles and lips. In this video, when both the subtitles and lips fade out, I was straining without realising the subtitles were starting to go wonky. It is a GREAT video for demonstrating the STRAIN on lipreaders. BTW, the nightclub group chat scenario in...
Even the best lip-readers are only able to understand approximately 30% to 40% of what is actually said on the lips.- Science Direct: Lipreading, Patients with Disabilities When I saw the statistics on lipreading, I was shocked. Approximately only 30-40% of...
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