tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73629824467801879182024-03-05T04:56:20.952-08:00Deafbarrie - www.deafbarrie.comJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13886160347060539350noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362982446780187918.post-89418025728136810162015-08-21T13:00:00.003-07:002015-08-21T13:00:40.509-07:00There is a book that tells part of what my time at school was like, just discovered this today.<br />
I thought of posting this as I returned from my 10th time at the Adult ASL Immersion Camp at the Ontario Camp of the Deaf.<br />
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El Deafo - a graphic novel -<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small;"><a href="http://marycrockett.com/2015/03/05/cecebell/comment-page-1/#comment-2737" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">THE STORY BEHIND EL DEAFO</a></span></h1>
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Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13886160347060539350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362982446780187918.post-67242557059516854622012-10-14T19:08:00.000-07:002012-10-14T19:25:42.181-07:00Purina Walk for Dog Guides - Hearing Dog and hosting Orillia WalkI was looking around on the internet for info on Dog Guides as I am thinking that Michelle and I will do the 2013 Walk for Dog Guides in Barrie.<br />
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I found this blog about a person/dog team from 2009<br />
<a href="http://lifewithahearingdog.blogspot.ca/2009/03/update-on-dog-guide-walk.html">http://lifewithahearingdog.blogspot.ca/2009/03/update-on-dog-guide-walk.html</a><br />
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Here is the actual top page of her blog: <a href="http://lifewithahearingdog.blogspot.ca/">http://lifewithahearingdog.blogspot.ca/</a>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13886160347060539350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362982446780187918.post-9887019579528456842012-09-08T19:17:00.000-07:002012-09-08T19:17:40.642-07:00Some links found todaySome links:<br />
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<a href="http://www.rvdeafchurch.org/Welcome.html" target="_blank">Royal View Deaf Church (London, Ontario)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.rvdeafchurch.org/Feasts.html" target="_blank">Fall Feasts of Israel - Sep 29 2012</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wod.paoc.org/DPM.aspx" target="_blank">Deaf Pentecostal Ministries</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=03J9Sa7MNhE" target="_blank">Deaf AMEN - Different ways of signing Amen from around the world</a><br />
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<br />Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13886160347060539350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362982446780187918.post-11775542431546175402012-09-07T20:07:00.001-07:002012-09-07T20:09:34.024-07:00<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-top: 1.8pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An insight to my
experience at camp the first year I went (2005). I had about the same experience as the lady
who wrote this. It is still an adjustment, but easier as I
prepare myself mentally ahead of time and after. It is totally a different Culture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"At one time,
like so many other people who had not tried </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">to learn American Sign
Language, I thought it was used only </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">by
people too lazy or stupid to master signing in English word order. I had found
ASL confining. Using PSE I could make the sign for </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">beautiful, gorgeous, striking, </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">or </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">pretty
</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">while mouthing
the <span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">word to make my choice clear. This
appealed to my writer's </span>heart, in love with the nuances of the English
language.</span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 117%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.6pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I didn't realize that skilled ASL
signers could show similar <span style="letter-spacing: 0.65pt;">nuances with
facial expression and body movement that </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">changed the meaning as surely as an English word
did. The </span>more I devoted myself to studying ASL, the more I began to
appreciate its richness. The arch of an eyebrow, the expansiveness of a
movement, or a slight change in posture all added interesting meanings to a
sign. The masters of ASL wrote as </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">skillfully with their bodies as any
of the best authors I had read.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> I had gone to the
Gallaudet campus for a few brief visits since my Spring Week trip in college,
but it had little to offer </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">me when I wasn't a skilled signer.
This time was different. I </span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">never knew that going to school could be such a pleasure. I had
</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">always gone to classes in places
that were geared for hearing <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">people. And I
had always been an exception. At Gallaudet, be</span>ing deaf was ordinary and
acceptable. I had never experienced such
liberation.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> When I went to the
cafeteria, I could ask questions about </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the food and easily understand the answers. If I stopped at the <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">student center to ask for information or grabbed
someone on </span>the recreation staff to ask the hours for the weight room, I
had no worries. Everyone knew sign language or could easily follow <span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">my "deaf voice." If they didn't, it was judged to
be some fault </span>of theirs, not mine.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> There were no raised
eyebrows at my high-pitched voice </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">and no fumbles for a pen or paper. I
didn't have to contend </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">with poor
lighting or people who mumbled. Everything was designed to accommodate someone
like me.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"> My teacher signed, and so did all the other students in my
class. For the first time I participated in classroom discussions. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">I went to lectures. I went to cultural events.
Everything was </span>new and exciting and I just could not get enough of
it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">At the end of my first week at Gallaudet, I drove back to Winchester for
the weekend. I needed to stock up on groceries, <span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">so I stopped at a supermarket. I walked inside
the store, as I </span>had twice a week for the past year, and suddenly, for the
first <span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">time, I felt frightened. The din was
unbelievable. And every</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">where I
looked I was surrounded by people saying things I </span>couldn't understand. It
was such a complete change from the past week that I could barely handle it.
This was the world I'd <span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">grown up in, but
suddenly I felt like a foreigner coming to it </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">for the first time. I was so shocked by the depth
of my feeling </span>that I clung to my cart for several minutes before my hands
stopped shaking. "</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Heppner, Cheryl M.
“<b><u>Seeds of Disquiet</u></b>” – 136 & 137, Gallaudet University Press
1992</span></span></div>
Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13886160347060539350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362982446780187918.post-80642192157268374652012-09-07T20:05:00.002-07:002012-09-07T20:05:32.621-07:00Link to Lion's Foundation of Canada Dog Guides Website<br />
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<a href="http://www.dogguides.com/" target="_blank">http://www.dogguides.com/</a><br />
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Recommended
book:</div>
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<b>Hands of My
Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love</b>
(Hardcover) <br />
by Myron Uhlberg (Author) </div>
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You can borrow this
from the <a href="http://barrie.bibliocommons.com/item/show/443033045_hands_of_my_father" target="_blank">Link to Barrie Public Library</a></div>
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or you can purchase from <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Hands-My-Father-Hearing-Language/dp/0553806882/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254706735&sr=1-3" target="_blank">Amazon</a> or <a href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Hands-My-Father-Hearing-Boy-Myron-Uhlberg/9780553806885-item.html?ref=Search+Books:+%27Hands+of+My+Father%27" target="_blank">Chapters</a></div>
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"In his moving memoir, <u><b>Hands of my Father</b></u>, Myron Uhlberg captures
the essence of one exceptional family’s life in Brooklyn in the 30’s, 40’s and
50’s. Uhlberg is a compassionate writer of truths. His book is full of
surprises, written with a generous, loving spirit. In vivid scenes–sometimes
wrenching, sometimes mischievous and sometimes hilarious–he takes us inside the
singular world of his childhood. And there the reader discovers the profound,
everyday courage exemplified by each member of the Uhlberg family."—Lou Ann
Walker, author of <b><i>A Loss for Words</i></b></div>
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A presentation of the "Unfair Hearing Test" portion of the Canadian Hearing Society's "The Unfair Hearing Test: An Interactive Listening Experience" CD. <br />Presented, with permission, by the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association - Newfoundland and Labrador (CHHA-NL).Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13886160347060539350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362982446780187918.post-26295932088062670852012-09-07T19:52:00.001-07:002012-09-07T19:52:23.263-07:00Heavenly Signs - The Barrie Examiner - 26 July 2008<div align="left">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Parishioners come to Holy Spirit Parish [<a href="http://www.holyspiritbarrie.ca/">http://www.holyspiritbarrie.ca/</a>] in
search of a sign from God and Father Keith Wallace knows just how to deliver it.
"(Having sign language) shows us that we at Holy Spirit are inclusive and all
members are part of our family. To have a religious and spiritual leader that
you can converse with bridges the gap between the two languages," Wallace said
of the separation between the spoken word and sign language. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Wallace has been a priest for more than 20 years, seven of which
were spent in Toronto teaching at a school where 25 per cent of the students
were hearing impaired. He said he had people in his parish who were both deaf
and blind, but still managed to take the subway to get to church every Sunday.
Wallace came to Barrie two years ago to join the clergy at Holy Spirit, to the
delight of local hearing impaired church-goers. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Before I came here, they would still go to church and just sit
there, even though they couldn't hear anything," Wallace said. He said one of
the families in his parish has a child who can hear and was able to translate
the service for the hearing impaired members of their family before Wallace's
service became available. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">One of the five families with hearing impaired members attending
Holy Parish comes from Wasaga Beach each Sunday to participate in the service.
Wallace said even if there was no sign language offered, there is still a lot a
hearing impaired person could get out of a service. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Most Catholic churches are a feast for the eyes with the
stained-glass windows and the wine representing the blood of Christ. They can
see that and know what it means," Wallace said. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Being one of only six Catholic priests in Canada who signs
throughout their service, Wallace would travel from Toronto to perform services,
such as baptisms, for hearing impaired families and individuals in other areas.
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Canada generally tends to be very limited in the number of
people who know sign language. The U. S. is far ahead of us. The U. S. seems to
be a lot more proactive and not just in churches. Even in restaurants there is
usually at least one waiter who knows sign language. Canadians can be pretty
mellow," Wallace said. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Many of the younger members of Holy Spirit have chosen to learn
sign language in order to communicate with the hearing impaired persons in their
congregation. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"(Our hearing impaired members) remind our students not to take
things for granted," Wallace said. He said people who can hear have their choice
of church, but those without hearing have limited options at best. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Wallace is optimistic for the future. He said there are already
three hearing impaired deacons in
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Deaf people are taking more leadership roles in
the church. That is a real trend here in Canada," Wallace said. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Holy Spirit is in the planning stages of building a new church
on Essa Road. The building plans take into account the special needs of each
member of the church's congregation. Members who have partial hearing loss would
have the benefit wired in hearing aid system in a section of the church. Instead
of stairs throughout the alter area, the church would have ramps so that all
areas would be wheelchair accessible. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"One of our members wants to be an alter girl, but she's in a
wheelchair. We are taking that into account during the planning of the new
church," Wallace said. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Wallace said he benefits from using sign language because he has
to be so expressive while signing. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Signing has helped me to be more animated as a person. That's
what signing and the deaf people have taught me," Wallace said. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Wallace signs throughout his Sunday mass, which starts at 10:30
a. m. and is held at St. Joan of Arc High School at the the corner Ardagh Road
and Mapleton Avenue in Barrie's south end.</span><br />
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Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13886160347060539350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362982446780187918.post-9893697093255268222012-09-07T19:43:00.000-07:002012-09-07T19:43:59.653-07:00Some Deaf Blogs I have found around the web, let me know if you have come across any you would recommend.<br />
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<a href="http://speakuplibrarian.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Speakuplibrarian</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.hearingsparks.com/" target="_blank">Hearing Sparks</a><br />
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<a href="http://xpressivehandz.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Xpressive Handz</a><br />
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Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13886160347060539350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362982446780187918.post-56609257273677365032012-09-07T19:37:00.000-07:002012-09-07T19:37:02.937-07:00On Tuesday Sep 11th we will be getting together for Sign and Coffee at Williams Fresh Cafe Barrie<br />
Check it out on Facebook.<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_2328246184/" target="_blank">Barrie ASL Group</a>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13886160347060539350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362982446780187918.post-58583192319251593372012-09-07T19:34:00.002-07:002012-09-07T19:34:40.448-07:00Check out ASL Camp ! - Camp 2012 at the Ontario Camp of the Deaf in Parry Sound. <br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_207036379391244/" target="_blank">Facebook ASL Camp 2012</a>Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13886160347060539350noreply@blogger.com0