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Deafened People: About defining who is deaf
Deafened adults: fallen between the cracks
Late-deafness in the words of officialdom
Living with deafness
ALDA department
 

A few excerpts below

  Causes of acquired deafness, a short outline about the different ways people are deafened, including percentages.

Sloping audiograms: For people with sloping audiograms (it may have been called ‘sensorineural’, ‘sensory-neural’, ‘nerve deafness’ etc.) what you hear can continue to sound as loud as ever but make less and less sense.

Deafened Adults, the People Who Fall Between the Cracks, (first presented at the Deaf Centre of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB, 1992)

The Association of Late-Deafened Adults: rationale, highlights, history. invited chapter in The Deaf American monograph. Garretson, M. (Ed.) Silver Spring MD: National Association of the Deaf (1996)

All roads lead to ALDA. 1991 ALDA Reader

U.S. Federal Register excerpt, 21-April-1997 (obviously I didn’t write this one)

For the future deafened music-lover. (web exclusive, 14 July 1997) with links to other articles on this topic

Ergonomics and the use environment of automatic speech recognition systems for deaf and hard-of-hearing users. Paper presented to the Lovejoy Symposium on ASR and deaf/hard of hearing people.
See also a recent issue of the refereed journal Technology and Disability (Elsevier) for my formal review on this topic.

Rehabilitation for Deafened Adults: A puzzle with missing pieces. Link to this MSW thesis (not mine) for insight into rehab needs and the shortcomings of the existing rehab system.

  My submission on the Ontarians with Disabilities Act.

Basics and bargains: My keynote presentation to Canadian Association of the Deaf Job Strategies workshop, Toronto, December 1999.

I used remote real-time reporting to survive my PhD research (excerpted and revised from my dissertation Method chapter)

The duality of communication as a barrier to communication between people who hear and people who don’t. Sure, it’s a ponderous title, but that’s what I called it. Presented to the Fourth Rochester Conference on Human Rights and Responsibilities.

The cure, the 1993 ALDA Reader. Chicago: Association of Late-Deafened Adults

Yes we have no implants, article, CICI Contact (magazine), Summer 1993, Cochlear Implant Club International

Print interpreting for deafened adults, in the 1992 ALDA Reader

Closed captioning; exclusively on the web

The real issue of health care interpreting: Informed consent; revised from my 1993 contribution to Silent News

A disenfranchised Canadian complains about ALDA's region system and governance structure

Personal experiences and anecdotes

  I heard a song today, oh boy. 1991 ALDA Reader

Selling me short. 1993 ALDA Reader; pondering peddlers.

My family signs boring, article, ALDA News (bimonthly publication of the Association of Late-Deafened Adults), Chicago IL

Sign language works like a charm, from ALDA News

Thus spake Ruby: a baby learns sign language (exclusively on the web—for now)

We are not alone

  Observations gleaned from elsewhere:

State must pay for deaf nurse’s nights out
A deaf woman yesterday won the right to claim a special benefit to help her to enjoy nights out with friends and at the theatre. (The Times of London, 22 May 1997)

Deaf people sue for access to movies (Associated Press, 3 Feb 2000)

    Contacting me
Last revised: July 27, 2002.