Thursday, September 16, 2010
FLASHBACK: The tools of Audism...
This commentary is about what audists used as tools of audism to intimidate deaf children and adults in the 19th and 20th century. It might be happening in the 21st century. It stresses on the need of better leadership, better advocacy and better education to improve the needs of deaf community.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Audism: Clerc and Veditz did experience it...
I have been reading "WHEN THE MIND HEARS by Harlan Lane. I see that Laurent Clerc made some comments about how hearing people behaved towards the deaf people in his day. It shows that hearing people have tendency to "control" deaf people for centuries.
Laurent Clerc made those comments about how hearing people behaved:
"I know what is going on. Important people , distinguished gentlemen, are repudiating the cause to which I have devoted my life. Endowed with the sacred trust of my people's welfare, they seek, without consulting us, to prevent our worship, marriage, and procreation, to stultify our education, and to banish our mother tongue simply because our way and our language are different from theirs."
"Meanwhile-language must come once again to my aid. It has always been my weapon to fight evil, my vessel to fill minds thirsting for knowledge, my lure to solicit relief. It must serve me grandly one last time and cast such a brilliant light on the history of present injustices that their perpetrators will cringe and their victims rally."
"I am impelled by the present threat to the well-being, dignity and freedom of my people to tell our story, one that I have lived almost from its beginning: how we gathered in France and in other European lands and then in America; how our language spread throughout Europe and crossed the Atlantic; the great struggle to create schools for us, in which it was my lot to play a leading role. It is a story of builders: of an abbe' rejected by the Church who established the education of an entire class rejected by society; of a deaf shepherd who achieved international acclaim by personifying what such an outcast class can achieve through education; of a frail New England pastor who channeled the love of a little deaf girl into a mighty force that has created a first college in the world for that class. It is also a tale of destroyers: of a zealous physician who put mock science ahead of true humanity; of a haughty nobleman who imposed his will on the deaf, knowing, he believed, what was best for them but knowing, in fact, none of them; of a professional reformer who sought to recast entire classes of society in his own image."
Also George Veditz did experience with AG Bell when he refused to donate to NAD.
Watch my video about Clerc's and Veditz's comments -
Thanks,
Paul
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Missouri DMH is inducted in Deaf Hall of Shame!
Since the Deaf Community filed lawsuit against Missouri Department of Mental Health some months ago, DMH has turned deafer, dumber and stupider than before! They have done NOTHING to this date. Here is an incident that makes them open for more lawsuits.
During a recent e-mail discussion, I got this reply from DMH Office -
"I am unavailable to reply to emails at this time. The Office of Deaf and
MutilCultural Mental Health Services do not provide individual assistance to
access to mental health services.
If there is a life threatening emergency, call 911.
"If you are seeking mental health services, please consult the following links
for help with locating and contacting providers of DMH psychiatric or substance
abuse treatment or services for people with developmental disabilities:
For mental health or psychiatric crisis or to request services, individuals
can use TTY, video relay or voice to call the ACI CRISIS LINE for your local
area: http://dmh.mo.gov/cps/ACImap.htm
For individuals who require treatment for alcohol or drug use, you can
review a directory of providers with contact information
at http://dmh.mo.gov/ada/TreatmentPreventionProviderDirectory5-10.pdf
For persons with a developmental disability. please contact the appropriate
DD Regional Office as identified on the map at http://dmh.mo.gov/mrdd/"
I checked out all links they provided.
230 offices around Missouri for hearing people! Wowee! That's a lot!
no tty or vp listings at all
all are fax and voice numbers -
It shows how callous they are towards the Deaf Community.
Now it is time to induct Missouri Department of Mental Health into the Deaf
Hall of Shame!
Shame on DMH!
My trip to KY DeaFestival 2010 at Horse Cave, KY
I took a trip to Louisville to spend the weekend there. I took a trip down to Horse Cave, KY to attend the DeaFestival event. It was fun seeing old friends and making new friends. I got to see more entertainers there. Nice selection of events and programs to watch. Pinky was there. Peter Cook was there. Roger Vass was there. CJ was there. Robert DeMayo was there. and many more.
Then I went back to Louisville for the evening. I enjoyed the trip and stopped off to explore French Lick in Indiana. A friend was showing me the architecture of the old hotel. I was fascinated by its odd design and the layout. It made me want to write a mytery novel about that place. Should I? *grinning*
A Friendly reminder - Louisville, KY is the site of NAD Conference in 2012 as well as DeaFestival 2012. I am eager to go there and I want to reserve a hotel now! Can't wait to visit the bluegrass country again!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Please read George Veditz's lips!
All the debate about using voice, please read George Veditz's lips throughout the less than 15 minutes of his presentation.
This is PURE ASL!
ASL in its divine right is the language we cherish!
Thanks to Gallaudet University Archives for the use of the video.
Please take your (spoken) voice elsewhere!
So it happens? ASL Advocates are right...The Gallaudet Campus is a sacred ground for American Sign Language since its founding It has no place for audism, oralism and anything pertaining to false facades of oralism.
With the recent debate on using voice to communicate with the deaf community, it can be joke one way or another. I remembered speaking to deaf audience without signing and using my voice. It did not work out as my voice may not be perfect. Interpreters may have misinterpreted... I never hear my own voice so who cares. Whether it be good or bad, I do not mind. If my hearing peers can understand me, that is great. If they were not sure, they should have spoken up sooner. They should not have let the issue remain unsolved. Communication is a two way street!
So back to Gallaudet Campus, it is a sacred ground since the 1860's...many deaf leaders have passed through the halls of Gallaudet including Laurent Clerc, George Veditz, Robert MacGregor and many others. It would be very considerate if anyone on the campus would choose to use sign language first.
Staring at the picture above with Reverend Thomas H. Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell, this is a proof of the beginning of American Sign Language and how he went to bring Laurent Clerc to the new world in 1816.
So I tell anyone who wants to use voice to stop jowling and use sign language please! Let the interpreters be your voice and accept the dignity of the deaf culture to use American Sign Language when communicating to the Deaf community.
and also more credits to Sophia Fowler Gallaudet - the wife of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and mother of Edward Miner Gallaudet. More information about Sophia can be seen at http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Sophia_Fowler_Gallaudet
So considerably please take your (spoken) voice elsewhere!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Questioning hearing people's integrity and professionalism in deaf programs....
Remembering Marcella's stand against odds in improving deaf services, this picture was when she helped a St. Louis organization start advocacy too.
After doing some research with some agencies serving the Deaf around the country, I came to realize that there are often more hearing people in agencies and programs serving the deaf and hard of hearing community.
I am avid fan of the late Marcella Meyer who ran GLAD in the golden days. I looked up to her and I love her witty comments and how she thought what Deaf can do.
She taught me important lessons about having the right to exist and work with hearing people. She hailed from Kansas City, Missouri and came to California to establish the programs that exist today. She taught the deaf community to empower themselves.
If you have not been to GLAD, you have missed something of an opportunity. There are other good organizations too.
What I am focused on is deaf advocacy.
Now I am questioning hearing people's integrity and professionalism in deaf programs......
I am noticing how the hearing people have higher comfort zone than the deaf people in some parts of the country.
Why are some deaf agencies run by hearing people?
To name a few, they are out there right under your nose.
Why do you allow hearing people to run deaf programs?
Are they being honest?
What is their integrity?
According to dictionary, adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character, honesty......
Come to think about the past 130 years of audism?
Were those hearing people running deaf programs being honest?
Maybe for their skills?
Maybe for their selfishness?
Who knows?
The truth will prevail in this matter.
This is just something to think about and hopefully the employment among the Deaf will fare better.
The hearing people have plenty of jobs outside the deaf community and we are still wanting more interpreters. Plenty of work in that arena!
Now can Deaf help themselves more?
Thank you for hearing me out! Pardon the pun!
Paul =)
PUNISHED FOR USING ASL!
Remembering the old days when looking at Clerc's Children Inc's plans, I was punished for using sign language. Please help vote everyday for the rest of August to make sure we get right information to the public.
Early Identification programs for babies are being manipulated by audists.
Please do not let that happen to them!
Please vote!
Please do not punish children for using sign language!
I was punished for simply expressing communications.
It left me damaged for many years!
I am an old man remembering the pains, frustrations and setbacks due to audism.
Please vote! Please go to the website at VOTE NOW FOR DEAF CHILDREN!
Friday, July 30, 2010
WHAT DO WE DO WITH ORAL PROGRAMS?
As I said in earier posting, that the war on audism is not over yet! I am asking everyone to stop and think about those oral programs that benefited from 130 years of oppression. We need to have them modify the programs to go back to pre-1880 deaf education programs.
Every action since September 11, 1880 were illegal.
With the recent developments, it will take another 130 years to undo the damages that audists have caused.
We need to get the ball rolling and get action done on remedying the wrongs of audism.
We will not be around in 130 years to witness the freedom of audism.
The freedom begins now!
Like Ruthie of Audism Free America says, "Let Freedom Roll!"
Thanks to ICED for turning it around after 130 years of abuses!
We need to keep it rolling further and wider!
The war on audism continues!
Thank you!
Paul
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The war against audism is not over yet!
Paul Kiel designed the t-shirt for the purpose of educating the public on stamping out audism! Let's have STAMP OUT AUDISM DAY on September 11, 2010!
Despite the recent developments, the war against audism is not over yet! I do appreciate the recent developments. I do not see the real beef yet! Yeah! Show me the beef!
I want more to combat audism. It is rampant everywhere! It is time to move attention onto the hearing people who are unwittingly and unknowingly that they are contributing to the problems of audism - it is in hospitals, schools, courts, employment, social lives, community projects and more!
"If we can give a "playbook" for each deaf individual, we can win the war in our fight against audism. We cannot afford to be "reactive" -- we have to be proactive - it means strategic planning for the years ahead and install our dreams, wishes and hopes in our today's deaf youth. It means investing our wisdom and rsources in th em - it begins by taking the time to volunteer to help today's youth. Can you do it?
I am borrowing from NSC (NTID Student Congress' motto) "Today's motivation is tomorrow's fulfillment!"
Let's wage the war on audism!
It is time to STAMP OUT AUDISM!
For more information on STAMP OUT AUDISM, please visit www.deafimages.tv -if you click on the title above, it will lead you to the website. Thank you for your support!
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