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I've looked around online, and I haven't been able to find any agencies that do VRI, apart from CAN Interpreting (I have an Ojo, so that'd be ideal), and I haven't gotten any replies to my email to them. Does anyone have suggestions on how I can get connected with someone who does VRI?

For a public trial, do I (or any deaf person) have the right to an interpreter if it's not my case? That is, I want to show support for a friend and be at their trial, but I don't know if I'm entitled to interpreting services, especially since I'd probably be just one of several people there to...

Hi all, just wanted to let you know that my surgery has been canceled (actually, I suppose postponed is more accurate, but it sort of feels like it's been canceled). I've had problems with intubation in the past, so they decided to give me sedatives and do the intubation while I was awake...

So, in my intro to psych class, the topic of Koko the Amazing Signing Gorilla! came up. I seem to remember that there were a lot of flaws in the way the experiment was done - lack of repeatability, lack of external verification, confirmation bias, researchers who don't sign fluently, etc. Can...

I'm looking at travel clocks - partly as a backup to my current alarm clock, which I seem to have trained myself to turn off in my sleep, and partly because I'd rather not lug around a big bedside clock when I travel. Specifically, I'm looking at the Shake Awake and the Sonic Shaker - can...

I'm going through the candidacy process now - the audiologist cleared me, so now I just need to be cleared by the surgeon (which may not happen - but I'm hopeful). If it happens, I'll be implanted in May. The surgeon I'm talking to works with Nucleus and AB, so I've been reading the material...

I use CART in class to follow what's going on. During a math recitation last week, the professor solved an equation whose result was zero, and wrote it as such on the board, but said that the result was 17 (I think it's a joke between him and one of the other students). Almost immediately...

On behalf of a friend, I'm trying to find an interpreter who does ASL-Spanish interpreting. The RID database doesn't have that kind of info in it (that I can find, anyway) - does anyone know how I might find one? My friend is in the Ithaca, New York, so if you know of a specific interpreter...

I started using oral interpreting at work a few months ago, and it's really worked out well. The interpreter also asked me if I wanted her to support the OI with signing (she primarily does ASL and PSE, not OI), and I did that, too. It was helpful - even with my limited signing abilities...

I don't have a TTY, but I do prefer text over voice, especially when I'm calling deafies (gee, go figure, right). Does anyone know of an IM to TTY relay? I know there's that program, Nexi-something, but it's Windows only. Alternatively, can you use any of the IM relay services to call a...

I've been sort of on the borderline for a while where hearing aids are useful, but I can't get much more gain out of them, so I'd sort of been thinking about CIs as a "maybe someday I'll need one" thing. Then I got mastoiditis; I went in for a mastoidectomy earlier this week, and while the hope...

Not sure this is the section for this, but I couldn't find anything better. After having suppurative otitis media since November, I've finally managed to convince my doctor that antibiotics just aren't doing it. I'm probably going to have a mastoidectomy in May (I go in today for a CAT scan...

I'm going to be taking a German class at my university next semester. I used to be fluent, so I'm not particularly concerned (I think if I can read it, I can say it), but it would be nice to have a backup. Doing some Googling, I've found information on ASL interpreting and CS transliterating...

I'm HOH, and primarily oral, but learning to sign. I've found Michigan State's ASL Browser dictionary to be a useful resource, but it is understandably somewhat limited. Specifically, I'm looking for disability related vocabulary - things like dwarf(ism), wheelchair, accessible and so on...