Volume 30 Issue 10

HOH-LD-News
Vol. 30, Issue 10
March 10, 2007

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Table of Contents
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- Article 1: People Who "Get it"

- Article 2: Dr. Alan Hurwitz Talks About Growing up Deaf

- Article 3: Davila and Bienvenu: ASL is the Heart of Gallaudet

- Article 4: Short Takes

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- Article 1: People Who "Get it"
By Denise Portis
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Editor: Here's another great article by Denise Portis. This one is about people who "get it" and people who don't. I've often wondered what it is that separates those who "get it" from those who don't. If you have thoughts on this, I'd love to hear them!

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Hearing loss is often referred to as the invisible disability. Some will argue that it is NOT a disability. I think people who think that however, do not have a degree of hearing loss in which their life is different because of it. If hearing loss does not cause you to miss out on what is being said, and has not directly affected your communication, it really isn't a disability - yet. If you have a progressive hearing loss, you eventually scrape together the money to buy a hearing aid, and then assistive devices, and perhaps eventually a cochlear implant. You recognize the fact that you have a disability and learn to live with it.

I have people in my life who do not "get it". It is unfortunate that these people are close to me - or at least used to be. When they question why I wear my cochlear implant coil where everyone can see it, and even decorate it with "implant bling", I realize they believe I'm drawing attention to the fact that I have a hearing loss. Recently partnered with a hearing assistance dog, Chloe, I have learned that instead of being proud of all of the hard work I have put into my training they question why I would want to have a dog partnered with me in public.

Sometimes I think that I have done them a disservice in that I was not very open about how my progressive hearing loss affected my life. I did not let them see the pain, the isolation, the depression, the eating disorders, and the suicidal thoughts. I survived all of that, and am a better person for it. Perhaps if I had been more transparent, they would rejoice with me in what I am hearing with the cochlear implant. Instead they continually forget what my implant is even called and refer to it as "that thing". If they had seen how I was "then", perhaps they would see how independent I have become and embrace assistive listening devices, and hearing assistance dogs.

The people in my life who "get it", are my immediate family as my hearing loss has affected them as well. Knowing that one day my "empty nest" will have a dog to alert me to our alarm, the phone and the door when Terry is out of town gives them stability and relief. "Mom" is going to be ok.

Other people who "get it", are people who also have hearing loss or someone in their family does. They "get it", because they live it. They understand. I receive not only emotional support, but even spiritual encouragement from so many of them. They know what hearing loss can do, and they also know how strong it can make you with supportive people around you.

I do have one person in my life; a dear friend named Sandy. I am her only link to hearing loss. Everything she has learned about hearing loss has really been from my family and I. She was my "cheerleader" all through the research I did for the cochlear implant, and she has been supportive of every assistive listening device I have purchased in order to teach better. She also knew nothing about hearing assistance dogs, and yet greatly supports the fact that I will have my partner with me next school year... in her school. Because I know so many people who "don't get it"... even some very close to me, I don't really understand why Sandy "does". However, I am grateful for it!

I think the internet is a fantastic thing. I have "found" people just like me all over the country... even the world. I have access to wonderful yahoo groups like bhnews, and Hearing Dog Teams, many HLAA chapter/state groups, and message boards like myhearingloss.org. I receive digests via email from superb newsletters like HOH-LD News (Hard-of-hearing/Late deafened) and some Google groups related to hearing loss. As members voice their concerns, and questions, other members rally and respond. I believe it has revolutionized the hearing loss community. For you see, we understand this invisible disability... and realize its ok to make it visible. Through education, advocacy, and support we shed some light on a disability that was once in the dark. I appreciate my association with people who "get it".

I'll always have people in my life who "don't get it". I can try to educate them and respond to them in a positive way. I can do this because of the support I have from people who do "get it". However, those people who do not no longer have any influence or power over who I am or who I will be.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bhNEWS/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hearingdogteams/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txhll/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HLA-LA/
http://www.nchearingloss.org/
http://www.myhearingloss.org/forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HOH-LD-News/
http://groups.google.com/group/hearinglosshaven

Denise Portis
(c)2007 Hearing Loss Diary

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If you would like to share an experience (positive or negative) you've had with an organization that claims to serve Deaf and hard of hearing people, please contact me at larry@hearinglossweb.com
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- Article 2: Dr. Alan Hurwitz Talks About Growing up Deaf
Presented by Alan Hurwitz
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Editor: This article is part of our coverage of the 2006 ALDA National Convention (ALDAcon). For more coverage of this great convention, please point your browser to http://www.hearinglossweb.com/res/hlorg/alda/cn/2006/2006.htm

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When they asked me to the Keynote speaker at the Awards Banquet, I thought maybe I was supposed to speak for an hour or 90 minutes or so. But Kathy told me she was thinking more like 15 minutes, so I thought that was pretty easy.

I was born deaf, and both of my parents are deaf. So I'm not a late-deafened person. But we deal with so many people with so many diverse needs.

I grew up in St. Louis, then lived in Iowa for awhile, and then came back here to attend college. I was walking around downtown this morning and I was surprised to see a brand new baseball stadium. And now the Cardinals are in the World Series with the Detroit Tigers, and that is very exciting.

Let me tell you a bit about my parents. My father and his family moved here from Russia. When my father was born deaf, they didn't know what to do, so they isolated him. Eventually, when he was 13, they sent him to the Iowa School for he Deaf, and that was his first exposure to formal education.

My mother's parents didn't realize she was deaf until she was about five. She attended oral school. She was sort of a tomboy, and was more interested in playing outside than in schoolwork. She was eighteen and couldn't read. Then her teachers gave her a book called "Little Women", and she learned to read with that book.

When my parents met, they fell in love, even though my dad couldn't speak and my mother couldn't sign. So they got married, and four years later I was born. They told me stories and read to me, and that's where I got my love of learning.

They sent me to the Central Institute for the Deaf here in St. Louis. That was an oral school. It was a wonderful experience. That school went to eighth grade, so after I finished that I went back to Iowa to a mainstream public school.

I remember a history class where we had 40 students. I was used to the deaf school, where we had five or six students in each class. I was terrified! And my parents had never attended a public school, so they didn't know what to do. So they put me in the front row and I had to make the best of it.

One day the teacher was teaching the Gettysburg Address and wanted the students to read along with her. I refused to read out loud, but I was reading along silently. And they're all reading. And suddenly the teacher asked the class to stop to discuss something. But I was still jabbering away. Then the teacher asked me to continue, but of course I stopped.

I remember another time I thought the teacher made a mistake on the board. I raised my hand and told her that she wrote something wrong. The teacher couldn't understand me, and kept saying, "What?" After several tries, I decided to just go up and make the correction. On my way up there I realized she was right, and that was very embarrassing.

After that I decided I would just attend class and not speak up or participate that much. And I became a bit isolated. I did have some superficial relationships with some of the students, but there was no in-depth dialogue taking place.

But I could go home to my deaf family every night and have a good discussion. So that was good,

I wanted to attend college and major in engineering. I contacted Gallaudet, but they didn't have an engineering school. So I thought I could attend Gallaudet for four years and then attend an engineering school for five years. But that seemed like a long time. So I went to a local college called Morningside College. They accepted me, but said I had to have some type of support service.

I was insulted and didn't understand why I needed support services. They explained that college was different, and I couldn't rely on the book like I did in high school. They decided that a notetaker would help me. So they found a student in my class and hired him as a notetaker for me.

I requested that the student they hired have very good grades, so I could depend on the notes. They couldn't find anyone like that, so they hired a "C" student. He took notes using carbon paper, and at the end of class he gave me the copy. I was pretty bored, because I had nothing to do in class. After a couple of weeks, I told him that he could forget about the carbon, I would look over his shoulder and take my own notes.

That system worked well and we continued for the full year. He became an A student.

Then my second year I decided to just be a regular student and find my own notetaker. My plan was to find a student who took a lot of notes and sit next to him and take my notes. The first class he didn't like that, so I told him at the end of the class that I was deaf and wanted to use his notes.

I used that system for years, and almost always had students who were happy to help.

When I started working on my Ph.D. I had an interpreter for the first time. Then I realized how much information was being provided in each class. And I was appalled at how much I had missed during my college years. I resolved at that time that I would never attend a class without an interpreter again.

I really enjoyed Bill Graham's talk yesterday about the early days of ALDA. I especially liked his recitation of the progression of the technology.

I want to mention NTID, which is part of RIT. About half of our deaf students regularly attend normal hearing classes at other RIT colleges.

We have about 200 students with cochlear implants, and we have a bunch of audiologists on staff to support them. We provide a full range of accommodations. We also have a full placement center to assist students in getting jobs. We also offer workshops for employers on how to work with deaf employees. Our job placement rate is about 95%, which we think is just excellent

I am so excited that your ALDAcon will be in Rochester in September 2007.

Thank you!

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- Article 3: Davila and Bienvenu: ASL is the Heart of Gallaudet
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Just in case there was any doubt about how Gallaudet's leaders view the roll of ASL at Gallaudet, they made it very clear in Bob Davila's Video Log entry of March 1. (Dr. Davila is Gallaudet's Interim President and he has been creating a weekly video log entry since he assumed this role. For this week's entry he invited Dr. MJ Bienvenu and another department chair to offer their views. The topic was the new Sorenson Language and Communications Center (SLCC) and the six departments that will be located in this new facility.

One of the departments is the Hearing Speech and Language Sciences (HSLS) Department, which, among other activities, provides audiological services to folks both inside and outside Gallaudet University. Dr. Davila remarked that, "the SLCC represents a truly exceptional opportunity to position the speech sciences directly within an ASL environment. So, for example, parents who bring their children for audiological screening and testing will enter a beautiful, visually-rich building full of people using ASL."

He goes on to say, "Since its founding in 1864, Gallaudet has cherished the culture and LANGUAGE [emphasis added] of deaf people and the community they represent. This proud tradition will continue unchanged. It will be the very foundation of our past and also our future."

Dr. Bienvenu reinforced this theme with her statement that Dr. Davila "just mentioned that Gallaudet perceives the importance of ASL; that ASL is the heart of this university. That has been the case, and always will be."

For the English transcription of this entry of Dr. Davila's video log, please point your browser to: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2p5jlg

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- Article 4: Short Takes
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Editor: Here are our picks of some additional stories that you may find interesting. For more, please point your browser to: http://www.hearinglossweb.com/news/curr.htm

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Gallaudet Seeks Board of Trustee Nominations

March 2007

Pamela Holmes, '74, chair of the Board of Trustees announced a request for nominations of new members of the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees following today's meeting of the Board. New trustees will be selected to serve terms beginning in October 2007. "We are seeking individuals who are dedicated to making Gallaudet a model of academic excellence and diversity," Holmes said. "We want dynamic individuals who are committed to active participation in Board and committee meetings and other many other activities crucial to Gallaudet's mission." Three documents have been made available by the Board's Committee on Trustees for those interested in submitting a nomination for themselves or another individual.

http://news.gallaudet.edu/?id=10526

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Occupational Hearing Conservation Sounds Good to Me

What continues to amaze me, however, is that although noise-induced hearing loss is 100 percent preventable, it continues to be such a recurring problem. Why are employees continuing to suffer hearing loss that directly affects their safety, their work, and their quality of life? In general, noise induced-hearing loss is not painful or obvious. Exposures to hazardous noise levels can cause temporary and gradual hearing loss that, with repeated exposure, becomes permanent. It is a silent killer (no pun intended--well, maybe) of nerve cells in the cochlea inside the ear that creates no pain, no visible signs of bleeding, and generally no immediately obvious signs of loss. Hearing does not come back once it is permanently damaged and gone.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/22jqz5

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The Molecular Sound of Silence

"(Hearing) is a very complicated process where lots of things can go wrong," Wong said. "What we have done is study one of those things." That thing is a mutation in a type of protein molecule called espin, a "binder" or "linker" protein common in nature, particularly in sensing cells. In the ear's hair cells, espin links rod-like protein molecules called filamentous actin, or F-actin, into bundles, Wong said. The problem occurs when a mutated form of espin - which needs binding sites on both sides, kind of like double-stick tape, to function properly - fails to secure the F-actin bundles tightly.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yrfpy3

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Employment Opportunity 3
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New York School for the Deaf
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Employment Opportunity 1
Various Positions
GLAD
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GLAD is an Affirmative Action Employer with equal opportunity for men, women and people with disabilities. For more information on the following positions, please go to: www.gladinc.org. The status of all positions is: Regular, Full-time, Non-Exempt, Full Fringe Benefits unless otherwise noted. All positions are open until filled.

* Building Manager - Los Angeles, CA
* Regional Director - Riverside, CA
* Mexican Sign Language Interpreter - Riverside. CA
* Job Developer/Interpreter - Crenshaw, CA
* Community Advocate - Los Angeles, CA
* Placement Coordinator - Crenshaw, CA
* Placement Coordinator (Temporary) - Norwalk, CA
* Hard of Hearing Specialist (Temporary) - Los Angeles and Riverside
* Community Advocate (Temporary) - Riverside, CA
* Community Advocate - Riverside, CA

If interested for any of these positions then please submit resume and application to:

Jeff Fetterman
Human Resources Specialist
Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, Inc.
2222 Laverna Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90041
V/TDD: (323) 550-4207
Fax #: (323)550-4204
E-mail: jfetterman@gladinc.org

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Employment Opportunity 2
Online Customer Service Representative
LunarPages Web Hosting
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We are looking for people who love working on their computers from home, have the time and the motivation to have a real career in customer service with a company offering daily challenges and a stable and secure future.

At Lunarpages Web Hosting supporting our customers in an efficient, responsive and friendly manner is our primary goal. At this time along with our phone support, we provide email support and open community forums.

We also intend to offer live chat support 24/7 and we need smart, reliable and technically savvy people. If you love spending time online, and are willing to learn all that we are willing to teach, please contact us as we would love the opportunity to interview you.

At Lunarpages we are aware that within our society there are limitations for job choices for many people due to impairments, social disorders and accessibility issues. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone and we will provide the training and support you need to excel in customer service.

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1. Level I technical support issues via email support, chat and Lunarforums.
2. Utilizes Level I security access to Account Management System to assist customers.
3. Transfers static customer accounts from previous web host to Lunarpages' servers.
4. Supports sales and billing as a secondary role.
5. Escalates or flags tickets and calls to senior personnel when necessary.
6. Adds features to accounts via billing manager when requested.
7. Assists customers in Lunarpages support chat.
8. Answers Help Desk tickets as a secondary responsibility.
9. Reads, troubleshoots and answers Lunarforums threads.
10. Continues development of Lunarpages and systems knowledge to more effectively answer calls.
11. Answers all Level I technical questions.
12. Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

SKILLS:
* Ability to communicate effectively.
* Skill in the use of personal computers and related software applications.
* Ability to work productively and efficiently to meet deadlines and quotas.
* Attention to detail.
* Analytical skills.
* Knowledge of customer service principles, techniques, systems and standards.
* Ability to work in a team environment.
* Internet and computer skills to include but limited to:
* General knowledge of the Internet including surfing and how to search terms using search engines such as Google.
* Operating Systems.
* Email clients.
* General knowledge of HTML Editors
* Ability to use an HTML editor a plus.
* Knowledge and ability to use Internet Browsers such as Internet Explorer, Netscape or Firefox.
* MS Office Applications: Word, Excel.
* Web forums, blogs or bulletin boards.
* Familiarity with Cpanel or other web hosting tools a plus
* Familiarity with HTML or other scripting languages a plus
* Familiarity with file transfer via the Internet (FTP) a plus.

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Employment Opportunity 3
Various Positions
New York School for the Deaf
White Plains, NY
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New York School for the Deaf invites you to apply for the following positions:

High School Principal
Coordinator of Clinical and Support Services
Curriculum/Technology Integration Specialist
Educational Evaluator
Speech Pathologist
Athletic Director
Physical Therapist
Occupational Therapist
Parent Educator

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Employment Opportunity 4
Provost
Gallaudet University
Washington, DC
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Gallaudet University is recruiting for Provost who will serve as the academic leader of the University. The incumbent's primary focus must always be the students and the faculty; must be responsible for leading and supporting the faculty in their development of a curriculum of excellence and a dynamic environment for a learning community engaged in scholarly inquiry that addresses students' diverse needs; must be committed to promoting the highest levels of student engagement and supports faculty work that increases student engagement; serves as the chief academic officer and provides overall leadership and direction to the division of Academic Affairs, including the College for Liberal Arts, Sciences and Technologies, Graduate School and Professional Programs and Student Affairs.

REQUIRES: Earned doctorate and a record of scholarship and service commensurate with the position. Minimum of five years of successful experience in educational administration. Substantial teaching experience in higher education. Demonstrated evidence of successful organizational, management and communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to work as part of a leadership team with a commitment to shared governance. Knowledge of educational practices and trends at all levels. Knowledge of deafness and of the unique educational needs of deaf people. Demonstrated understanding of diversity issues. Fluency in American Sign Language required. Deadline: March 16, 2007.

Excellent benefits and competitive salary range. For further information, go to our web site: http://af.gallaudet.edu/hrs/hrs_job_admin.asp.

To apply, send a letter of interest, current resume and names of three references to:
Gallaudet University
Human Resources Services
800 Florida Avenue, NE
College Hall, room 106
ATTN: Job #07013
Washington, DC 20002

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/Educational Institution.

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