Here is the ideal place for hosting the DC DPHH's September 2008 at the Outdoor Aria Fresco, the largest outdoor plaza in DC area within the Woodrow Wilson Plaza and the Ronald Reagan Building next to the Federal Triangle Metrorail station and Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest in visible of the U.S. Capitol and the White House. http://www.itcdc.com/
The only available eating/drinking venture is the Italian Aria restaurant on the outdoor fresco of the Woodrow Wilson Plaza - http://www.ariatrattoria.com/ The food court inside the RR Building will be closed at 7pm for anyone, who seeks affordable meals.
Free validated parking after 5pm inside the Ronald Reagan Building parking garage. Easy access to the Metrobus route - 30s Metrobus along the Pennsylvania Avenue. The Federal Triangle Metrorail station is right next to the Woodrow Wilson Plaza. Perfecto for the annual largest DC DPHH gathering for every September. Don't you, Shane Feldman, coordinator of the DC DPHH, agree?
The DeafDC.com haven't been posted lately about the location of next DPHH gathering site. I took the liberty of doing some research to find the perfect site for our September DC DPHH. You also asked me to let you know if I am aware of any suitable place for the September DC DPHH. I could not reach you via email message. I lost your email address right now. :)
You, Shane Feldman and other deaf individuals expressed concerns about the Georgetown Harbor due to the parking difficulty and long walks from the Foggy Bottom/GWU Metrorail station. Some problems arisen with the Sequoia seafood restaurant management last time back to last September 2007.
I also checked out the National Harbor in Prince George County which the WMATA do offer the limited bus services to this place, but the bus schedule for the NH-1 bus will end at 9:30pm. Seems too far for many deaf individuals going there anyway. It's time for the due of DC DPHH is in DC. Correct?
Here is my solution for you and the Deaf DC.com - the Outdoor DC Fresca. What a perfect location for the discussion about the upcoming presidential election whom root for the next President of the United States in the backdrop of the White House one block away and the U.S. Captiol six blocks away. Don't you agree, Shane? If yes, you owe me a drink. Bien?
The Georgetown Harbor is not the wheelchair accessibility from the M Street, Northwest as compared to the Woodrow Wilson Plaza via the Federal Triangle Metrorail station. The D2, D4 and X2, X4 and X6 and 30s (Northbound) Metrobuses are readily accessible from Gallaudet University to the 13th Street, Northwest via K and H and U Street. Not affect only deaf individuals with the wheelchair use. Many deaf individuals also have foot/hip problems and have such a difficulty of walking down the street from the M Street to the Georgetown Harbor.
No free parking garages or spots found in Georgetown area as compared to the street parking along the Pennsylvania Avenue and parking garage inside the Ronald Reagan and International Trade Center building. Four Metrorail stations nearby - National Archives, Smithsonian, Metro Center and Gallery Place-Chinatown within walking distance to this secret gem of DC - the Ronald Reagan and International Trade Center.
The Georgetown Harbor is kinda a tiresome scene for many regular DPHH attendees anyway. The change of scenery is what we really need most now for the different gathering site.
Editor's note - this blog posting was supposed to be posted last Thursday early afternoon, September 28th, Unfortunately, the online technical problem prevented the automated publication til late Sunday wee night. Sincere apology for this kind of inconvenience.
Warm regards,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
"What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind", New Book
Margait Fox of the New York Times' Obituary Department reporter and author, wrote the new book - "Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind". Fox, a trained linguist and the team of linguistic researchers went to the remote Bedouin village in Israel where an indigenous sign language developed. Remmy Nicaragua' linguistic expedition back in 2006 on the CBS-TV's "60 Minutes" tv programming?
Margalit Fox also offered the exhaustive description of other sign languages around the world. She and other linguistic researchers attracted to that Israeli village to inquire and report how language is made in the human mind.
"Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind" nonfiction book refer to the growing field of sign language linguistic research subject evolved as one of most promising and contentious branches of cognitive science. Simon & Schuster Publisher, $15-27
http://www.talkinghandsbook.com/
Margalit Fox will make her personal appearances on various local NYC television shows. She also will be giving a lecture at the Morningside Bookshop, 2915 Broadway at 114th Street in Manhattan area next September 19th with the presence of ASL interpreter. Fox will make her presence at Long Island's former alta mater - State University of New York at Stonybrook.
Margalit Fox possessed the B.A, degree in journalism at Columbia University, then B.A. and M.A. degree(s) in linguistics at the State University of New York at Stonybrook.
Please do not confuse with Mary Beth Miller and Remy Charlip nd G. Ancona's "Handtalk", deaf children photographic book series.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Margalit Fox also offered the exhaustive description of other sign languages around the world. She and other linguistic researchers attracted to that Israeli village to inquire and report how language is made in the human mind.
"Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind" nonfiction book refer to the growing field of sign language linguistic research subject evolved as one of most promising and contentious branches of cognitive science. Simon & Schuster Publisher, $15-27
http://www.talkinghandsbook.com/
Margalit Fox will make her personal appearances on various local NYC television shows. She also will be giving a lecture at the Morningside Bookshop, 2915 Broadway at 114th Street in Manhattan area next September 19th with the presence of ASL interpreter. Fox will make her presence at Long Island's former alta mater - State University of New York at Stonybrook.
Margalit Fox possessed the B.A, degree in journalism at Columbia University, then B.A. and M.A. degree(s) in linguistics at the State University of New York at Stonybrook.
Please do not confuse with Mary Beth Miller and Remy Charlip nd G. Ancona's "Handtalk", deaf children photographic book series.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Sunday, August 24, 2008
"200" Brought to Deaf Gaza School Lately
The New York Time's latest article (8/23/08) reported more than 40 international human right advocates in two boats recently landed in Gaza in defy of the Israel government and brought 200 hearing aid devices for deaf Gaza youngsters. *rolling eyes in disbelief*
www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/middleeast/24mideast.html?-r=1&sq=200hear
Why in the world for the international human rights advocates brought hearing aids, instead of money for lack of diesel fuels within bus transportation to carry deaf students all over the Gaza Strip or books and other non-audistic stuff? No particular name of this international human rights advocacy group mentioned so far.
Israel have been blocked the orders of hearing aid devices and batteries to be delivered to the deaf Gaza school for years. That seems Israel doing the real favor for deaf Gaza children from being delivered to the audistic means of peppering them to the tortures of speech and hearing trainings.
Couldn't be much prouder of Israel's action to keep hearing aid devices and batteries out of reach for the deaf Gaza school to equip deaf Gaza students. Israel know what is best for deaf Gaza students. The international human rights advocates are the idiotic ones for their audistic behaviors to please the audists and clueless parents of deaf children to turn them into "little parrots" and "seals in training to please and wow the world of audism. Bravo to Israel's 'Stone Age" tactics!
There are approximately 21,000 deaf people living in the Gaza Strip lately. The deaf Gaza school have been struggled with lack of school resources and basic necessity for deaf students. The school is 16 years old. The student enrollment figures at deaf Gaza school is about 200. The future enrollment goal is to admit up to 300 students.
All staff personnel at the deaf Gaza school use sign language. The school also teach parents of deaf youngsters how to master sign language. How intelligent for this school to engage in sign language communication! Israel's security blockade kinda forced the deaf Gaza school staff to resort to the use of sign language more than ever. One of most best solution for deaf youngsters ever occurred lately around the world as compared to the AGBell (AgBAD)'s AVT programs in the United States. Sign language communication is most practical and effective educational means, not the use of hearing aid devices and batteries or AVT programs.
For more info about the deaf Gaza school - http://www.atfaluna.net/
Jamie Berke's "About Deafness" blog posting last year, December 17, 2007, mentioned about Israel sent up rockets to the Gaza area which greatly affected the deaf Gaza school from what the Washington Post wrote last year - December 15, 2007. The Post article kinda showed "audistic" leanings to get the readers feel sympathized for deaf Gaza students without having access to hearing aids and batteries.
Let's send a letter of compliment to the Israel government and show our true appreciation to keep hearing aid devices and batteries out of the hands of audists in Gaza area!
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/middleeast/24mideast.html?-r=1&sq=200hear
Why in the world for the international human rights advocates brought hearing aids, instead of money for lack of diesel fuels within bus transportation to carry deaf students all over the Gaza Strip or books and other non-audistic stuff? No particular name of this international human rights advocacy group mentioned so far.
Israel have been blocked the orders of hearing aid devices and batteries to be delivered to the deaf Gaza school for years. That seems Israel doing the real favor for deaf Gaza children from being delivered to the audistic means of peppering them to the tortures of speech and hearing trainings.
Couldn't be much prouder of Israel's action to keep hearing aid devices and batteries out of reach for the deaf Gaza school to equip deaf Gaza students. Israel know what is best for deaf Gaza students. The international human rights advocates are the idiotic ones for their audistic behaviors to please the audists and clueless parents of deaf children to turn them into "little parrots" and "seals in training to please and wow the world of audism. Bravo to Israel's 'Stone Age" tactics!
There are approximately 21,000 deaf people living in the Gaza Strip lately. The deaf Gaza school have been struggled with lack of school resources and basic necessity for deaf students. The school is 16 years old. The student enrollment figures at deaf Gaza school is about 200. The future enrollment goal is to admit up to 300 students.
All staff personnel at the deaf Gaza school use sign language. The school also teach parents of deaf youngsters how to master sign language. How intelligent for this school to engage in sign language communication! Israel's security blockade kinda forced the deaf Gaza school staff to resort to the use of sign language more than ever. One of most best solution for deaf youngsters ever occurred lately around the world as compared to the AGBell (AgBAD)'s AVT programs in the United States. Sign language communication is most practical and effective educational means, not the use of hearing aid devices and batteries or AVT programs.
For more info about the deaf Gaza school - http://www.atfaluna.net/
Jamie Berke's "About Deafness" blog posting last year, December 17, 2007, mentioned about Israel sent up rockets to the Gaza area which greatly affected the deaf Gaza school from what the Washington Post wrote last year - December 15, 2007. The Post article kinda showed "audistic" leanings to get the readers feel sympathized for deaf Gaza students without having access to hearing aids and batteries.
Let's send a letter of compliment to the Israel government and show our true appreciation to keep hearing aid devices and batteries out of the hands of audists in Gaza area!
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Confused about Merger of the Virginia School for the Deaf & Blind
Is there already the official merger of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind (VSDB) of Stauton and the Hampton Roads School for the Deaf and Blind and Multi-Disabled (HRSDBMD)or what?
After reading the MSNBC's news report on the increasingly school budgets across the country to be heavily slashed and reduced, ex. school transportation cost and fuel. The article is written by Alex Johnson of MSNBC.
Johnson mentioned the fine example of the merger of the VSDB and HRSDBMD as part of the widespread trend to save the cost of state educational budget spending. He wrote:
"To save money, Virginia officials decided to merge the state's two school for
students with disabilities.
As a result, parents of students at the Hampton Roads School for the Deaf
and Blind and Multi-Disabled in Hampton, will have to decide whether to send
their children hours away to the state's only other facility in Stauton"
I checked out the Internet to find out more accurate information on the current status
of the VSDB and Hampton Roads School for the D/B/MD. The latest information comes from the Office of Governor Kaines of Virginia in 2006 about Kaines' proposal for the renovation of the VSDB buildings and continuted funding to the VSDB in Stauton and create the regional program in Hampton Roads within his budget request.
Another information said that the state school board put off the votes for the new site of the
VSDB.
Any accurate and latest information regarding the VSDB out there? I always feel connected to the VSDB whenever I go there. The VSDB have a lot of history.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
After reading the MSNBC's news report on the increasingly school budgets across the country to be heavily slashed and reduced, ex. school transportation cost and fuel. The article is written by Alex Johnson of MSNBC.
Johnson mentioned the fine example of the merger of the VSDB and HRSDBMD as part of the widespread trend to save the cost of state educational budget spending. He wrote:
"To save money, Virginia officials decided to merge the state's two school for
students with disabilities.
As a result, parents of students at the Hampton Roads School for the Deaf
and Blind and Multi-Disabled in Hampton, will have to decide whether to send
their children hours away to the state's only other facility in Stauton"
I checked out the Internet to find out more accurate information on the current status
of the VSDB and Hampton Roads School for the D/B/MD. The latest information comes from the Office of Governor Kaines of Virginia in 2006 about Kaines' proposal for the renovation of the VSDB buildings and continuted funding to the VSDB in Stauton and create the regional program in Hampton Roads within his budget request.
Another information said that the state school board put off the votes for the new site of the
VSDB.
Any accurate and latest information regarding the VSDB out there? I always feel connected to the VSDB whenever I go there. The VSDB have a lot of history.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
Monday, August 4, 2008
Selective Admission Practices at Oral Schools for the Deaf
Past selective admission practices at many oral schools for the deaf over decades have to be publicly exposed for what the school administrators and board members carefully cherry picked their prospective deaf students for school admissions.
Many past oral schools for the deaf administration and board members extensively looked for deaf students, who had been tested for their intelligence and capacity for speaking orally. If any deaf student did not meet any standards for so-called intelligence, but the school administrators of oral schools for the deaf, willingly to overlook that particular student's "below-average" intelligence and take hir in due to the family wealth. Many oral schools for the deaf successfully raked in millions and millions and millions of dollars and deceived the general public about their so-called success with the oral education for deaf students.
The residential schools of the deaf hardly do this kind of thing and admit almost everyone deaf for educational studies and social/emotional development. Those schools often turned into a dumping ground for "oral failures" and "rejected ones" from oral schools for the deaf. In the end, residential schools of the deaf graciously educated millions and millions of deaf students with greater results for become a whole human being with excellent "life" foundation as productive and meaningful citizens.
Oral schools for the deaf came with their own shameful and horrendous legacy - crude and abusive methods to get deaf students to speak orally which the natural order of human beings losing any one of five senses - hearing, seeing, touching, smell and taste. Human beings could adapt very well without one of the five senses and lead worthy life.
Oral schools for the deaf nowadays face dramatic admission enrollment loss due to the widespread of cochlear implant uses. Those schools face their own extinction anytime for what they done to millions of deaf youngsters in the past. Karma really work in very mystifying way.
Residential schools of the deaf and public education brought people together for the better humanity, not the oral schools for the deaf and AGBell. The ongoing violence against deaf youngsters with the forced surgery of cochlear implant is another legacy of oppression and belittlement against the natural evolutionary of human beings for adapted human survival.
Parents of deaf babies and youngsters need to think deeply from what they are doing to their own offspring like depriving the language acquaintance thru workable means without any kind of frustration or wasteful struggles.
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
Many past oral schools for the deaf administration and board members extensively looked for deaf students, who had been tested for their intelligence and capacity for speaking orally. If any deaf student did not meet any standards for so-called intelligence, but the school administrators of oral schools for the deaf, willingly to overlook that particular student's "below-average" intelligence and take hir in due to the family wealth. Many oral schools for the deaf successfully raked in millions and millions and millions of dollars and deceived the general public about their so-called success with the oral education for deaf students.
The residential schools of the deaf hardly do this kind of thing and admit almost everyone deaf for educational studies and social/emotional development. Those schools often turned into a dumping ground for "oral failures" and "rejected ones" from oral schools for the deaf. In the end, residential schools of the deaf graciously educated millions and millions of deaf students with greater results for become a whole human being with excellent "life" foundation as productive and meaningful citizens.
Oral schools for the deaf came with their own shameful and horrendous legacy - crude and abusive methods to get deaf students to speak orally which the natural order of human beings losing any one of five senses - hearing, seeing, touching, smell and taste. Human beings could adapt very well without one of the five senses and lead worthy life.
Oral schools for the deaf nowadays face dramatic admission enrollment loss due to the widespread of cochlear implant uses. Those schools face their own extinction anytime for what they done to millions of deaf youngsters in the past. Karma really work in very mystifying way.
Residential schools of the deaf and public education brought people together for the better humanity, not the oral schools for the deaf and AGBell. The ongoing violence against deaf youngsters with the forced surgery of cochlear implant is another legacy of oppression and belittlement against the natural evolutionary of human beings for adapted human survival.
Parents of deaf babies and youngsters need to think deeply from what they are doing to their own offspring like depriving the language acquaintance thru workable means without any kind of frustration or wasteful struggles.
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
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