Archive for December, 2009

Swimming with Hearing Aids and More

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Dec 31 2009

Happy new year to About.com Deafness readers. I decided to close out the year with a few useful news items of interest:

  • In recent hearing aid news, the makers of the Lyric have announced that they are testing a swim-proof version of their hearing aid. MSNBC was just one of the sites to carry the report.
  • In other hearing aid news, a Food and Drug Administration panel voted to recommend for FDA approval a new implantable hearing aid, Esteem, from Envoy Medical.
  • Accessibleemergencyinfo.com is a new website reported on by Bioprepwatch.com, that has signed videos about emergency topics such as biological attacks. It is actually a collection of signed YouTube videos.

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Swimming with Hearing Aids and More originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at 22:18:52.

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Classic Deaf Movie Online – No Captions

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Dec 30 2009

An About.com reader just alerted me to something I did not know about. A comment was posted on an old post, “Most Requested Deaf Movie Not on DVD,” about the old classic “And Your Name is Jonah.” According to this comment, the movie, about a young deaf boy played by Jeffrey Bravin, was available on Hulu!

It IS available on Hulu – at Watch And Your Name is Jonah, BUT there are no captions. That is NOT Hulu’s fault. When this movie aired back in 1979, there was no such thing as closed captioning. (It is also on Amazon.com streamed video, without captions).

But why can’t Hulu caption it, you ask? It is not that simple. Hulu does not do the captioning themselves. Hulu takes captions produced by others, and re-formats the captions for broadcast on Hulu.

And it still doesn’t seem to be available on DVD either.

Classic Deaf Movie Online – No Captions originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 at 20:24:35.

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We Need More Classes Like This

Sign Language | Posted by About.com Deafness
Dec 29 2009

The University of Arizona has launched a special class to help older people losing their hearing, to learn how to cope with having hearing loss. In this class, the “students” learn all the basics – how to not bluff, how to speak up for their needs, and how to communicate. I’ve never heard of a class like this before, and I hope that this concept spreads to help the growing number of people losing their hearing as adults.

We Need More Classes Like This originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Monday, December 28th, 2009 at 21:01:49.

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Deafness Blog Posts Most Popular in 2009

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Dec 27 2009

Which blog posts on About.com Deafness were the most commented on in 2009? Blog posts that struck a nerve or commented on issues of major importance to the deaf and hard of hearing community were generally the ones that got the most reader response. A blog post had to have a minimum of 20 comments in order to make this list. If you haven’t chimed in on any of these posts, you still can!

  • Do You Sign While Driving? (24 comments)

  • Little Kid Interprets in School for Littler Kid (23 comments) (This one is my personal favorite for all of 2009!)

  • What Makes You Wish You Could Hear? (22 comments)

  • Deaf Teachers Losing Jobs Because of English (21 comments)

  • Hearing Aid Users Mentally Inferior? (21 comments)

  • Netflix CEO an Insensitive B******* (20 comments)

  • Criminal Fraud by VRS Agencies (20 comments)

    • Deafness Blog Posts Most Popular in 2009 originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Saturday, December 26th, 2009 at 16:25:57.

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    Deaf Woman Continues to Sing

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    Dec 24 2009

    From the Coloradan comes the perfect story for Christmas eve: a deaf woman continues to sing even after losing her hearing. After growing up with minor hearing loss and singing since she was little more than a toddler, Mandy Harvey lost the rest of her hearing. After a year of depression and no singing, Harvey decided to start singing again!

    Deaf Woman Continues to Sing originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Thursday, December 24th, 2009 at 14:36:23.

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