Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 11am
2222 Laverna Ave Los Angeles, CA 90041
English Transcription:
Hi!
I'm looking forward to Deaf Women's Day Champagne Brunch!
It's coming up right around the corner. In fact, it's coming up this Sunday at June 2, 2013.
We have awesome raffle prizes, informational booth, yoga, menopause workshop, HIV Awareness and HIV testing service.
Before you come, don't forget to bring yoga mat. If you don't have it, you can bring beach towel or bath towel.
See you there on Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 11am!
It has brought to my attention that the investigation report of thedeafcommunity.org video has been removed by Youtube.com. So I made an effort to use this video on this post for those of you who have missed the chance to see it. Keep in your mind that it's a video journal and it has no intent to harm anyone who is involved in the video production and has no intent to harm anyone who is involved as members of thedeafcommunity.org. The intention of this vlog is to debate whether the legislation initiatives of SB 1240/HB 1391 bill will supersede over the options of allowing medical community to offer a sign language community to deaf and hard of hearing babies. I'm one of the 95% - 99% deaf babies of hearing parent and I'm a survivor of AG Bell. By this statement, I was a failure oral student at John Tracy's Clinic. When I was placed into sign language community, my cognitivedevelopment built quicker and I was very lucky to be able to caught up the lack/delay of educational learning process. I've met some people who continued to struggle to keep up because they were not exposed to sign language environment until later in their lives.
And keep in your mind that the investigator and the supporter of legislation initiatives of SB 1240/ HB 1391 and allegedly moderator of thedeafcommunity.org already have made their voices in public. Therefore, they had made their reputations in the deaf community, whether is it to be speaking deaf community or deaf people whose primary communication method is in American Sign Language.
Directed by Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant of Deaf West Theatre, Deaf high school students will be showcasing their performance pieces including an original production based on the Deaf President Now movement.
Special thanks to Deaf West Theatre and to Purple Communications for their support.
COME ONE, COME ALL. Support your local Deaf school! FREE ADMISSION! Families welcome! Interpreted for the signing-impaired in English & Spanish Marlton School for the Deaf 4000 Santos Tomas Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90008
Published on Apr 29, 2013
After receiving several tips from various individuals, journalist Tara Schupner Congdon worked with a team of researchers and IT technicians to investigate www.thedeafcommunity.org, its origins and its administrators.
They discovered that the website was privately registered by a hearing parent of a deaf boy with bilateral cochlear implants who uses the LSLS/oral method. This individual is a strong advocate of auditory-verbal/LSLS/oral education. Various pieces of evidence, collected in this video, suggest she set up this site to back a change.org petition supporting two Florida bills that some groups argue will funnel funding for all deaf children to private AVT/LSLS schools for the deaf.
Obviously, administrators of thedeafcommunity.org must be much more transparent and forthcoming in order to better determine the validity of this website and petition.
But in the meantime, the sum of the existing evidence leads to several questions asked at the end of the video:
Is thedeafcommunity.org unifying, or is its language divisive?
Is it ethical for a hearing person to set up and run a website professing to speak for the entire deaf community?
Is thedeafcommunity.org being driven by a specific agenda?
Is the change.org petition supporting SB 1240 and HB 1391 credible when it carries the name of a website whose origins and moderators are not transparent?
NOTE: We are working on ASL and Cued versions of this video. Please check back later or e-mail tscongdon@hotmail.com to be notified when your preferred mode becomes available.
Blogger's note: Please contact tscongdon@hotmail.com in the event if the video at Youtube has been removed under the investigation of a compliant. I have also downloaded the video via YouTube Downloader so I can send the Tina Congdon's video at the request. The purpose of posting it on my blog is to educate people that there are people who will do anything to deceive the public to gain political influence against a minority group.
