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TECHNO WATCH: Radio for the Deaf [New Edit]

It had to happen, captioned radio: Listen Up: It’s Radio for the Deaf and Captioned Radio for the Deaf. As laudable as the aim is, the problem is, how do Deafies interact with a talk back program? The provision of captions and subtitles, assumes information is going one way and that the audience [Deafies] is a passive one.

Hearing people [people in general] need to realise that when providing technologies that enable access, they need to address the question of how to make Deaf people feel included. How does technology benefit Deaf people beyond providing access to information? There is much evidence that they don’t get it.

Yes, captions and subtitles are a huge step forward, however, it still doesn’t address the issue of HOW to include Deaf and hearing impaired people in culture and society. Hearing people can participate in talk back via their mobile and landline phones. That give stalk back radio an immediacy and intimacy that facilitates “community”. Makes people feel part of a community.

How will captioned radio allow Deaf people to do the same?

Further Reading:

Do Hearing People Get It? At All? EVER? Part Uno Numero  [Not Safe For Work]
New technology allows you to read the radio
First Ever Closed-Captioned HD Radio for the Deaf Launched By NPR, Harris and Towson University
Closed-Captioned Radio? That’s Right, It’s Here
Tantalizing News About Captioned Radio
Companies To Peddle New Gadgets At Show
NPR, Harris and Towson to Demo Accessible Radio at CES

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RNID [Damn!]

Coming soon: will you be forced to get your hearing aids from the RNID?
Autonomy and Gurning
RNID: The New Google?
Forced to Get Your Hearing Aids From RNID?

Hearing Aids and Your Sex Life: Making Whoopee Never Sounded So Good

It had to happen. Linking Sex and Hearing Aids.

Amongst the many grandiose claims made on behalf of those inanimate objects we call hearing aids, Healthy Hearing gush forth on how they can IMPROVE YOUR SEX LIFE.

CUE: Jokes Ooh ooh Ahhh Grunt Moan, etc, etc, etc… all those sounds that are really important to the intellectual pursuits of education, access, and equality.

It does make one wonder whether epople who write these articles ever consider the potency of visual languages. I, for one, don’t wear my eharing aids all the time, and yes, I take them off before I have a shower.
I don;t knwo whether writer of this article is Deaf, hearing Impaired or hearing, but honestly, this continuous linking of hearing woith good quality living is tiresome. Not getting tiresome, is tiresome. You would think that by now, people would get a clue that there are alternatives. Not only that, hearing aids and other insturments designed to give us some hearing, are just that instruments and aids……

What’s worse, is this article throws the responsibility of maintaiing communications and links with the hearing world on to the person with the hearing impairment.

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New RNID Chair: Gerald Corbett[Surprise?]

No surprises here. Read All About It! Now go here, and vent your laughter!

Crap Reasons For Not Including Subtitles

A movie about the deaf, but not for the deaf

Thanks so much for your interest. I’m sorry, but it will not. We made the decision not to subtitle the prints for two reasons: the visual aspect of the film is as important as the aural, and the director felt (and we agreed) that the subtitles would be hurtful; and because much of the movie deals with sounds that subtitles cannot deal with. Since the film will be available in closed caption format when it is released on DVD, we settled for that as the way to go, though we know we are disappointing some people, such as yourself, for which we truly are sorry.

Thanks-
Ken <shadow@prexar.com>

They may as well admit they know fuck all about Deafness and Deaf people!

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