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WOW, you did luck on that one. I work desktop support and it is not so deaf friendly. Mind you I just got the job and my hearing is still degrading at a rate I can still answer calls (with a few repeat requests). As for what I do for a living, I work desktop support as I had just...

Why yes. It depends on if you are willing to head into KC. Going east on 10 will take you to Olathe, a town that has many d/Deaf events. They even have a Deaf Cultural Center. Kansas Educational Foundation Deaf Cultural Center Due to my work schedule,I have not had a chance to go, but I have...

Welcome to AD!.. hum, not sure about lawrence area, I live in the Kansas City area, Grandview MO to be exact. I am still learning sign myself, and always looking to meet new people and share some of the "new to signing" gatherings I have learned about around the city if you are willing to...

I too am struggling with this debate. I have mild hearing loss, and in cases like a quiet room, I can understand speech. I am starting to have issues over the phone, depending on the tone, and that is sort of a issue since I answer calls in a call center for a living. Luckily the headset I...

As someone that is just now discovering my hearing issues and the Deaf world, I opted not to vote, but my thoughts are that keeping someone out of the hearing world that can hear would be nearly impossible. Unless you live way out in the country or on some kind of d/Deaf commune. The simplest...

Well, I didn’t think too much of the first question since his posture or facial expressions did not seem like he was upset when he asked it. I am still new to learning sign, I have studied videos to teach kids, and online sites like ASLpro and Lifeprints to construct basic signed English, but I...

Ok, not sure to post this here, or in the “hearing or HoH” forum. Since most of my issues have been discussed here, I picked this posting. A really fast recap so people don’t have to go jumping back to catch up. A few months ago (thinking about 4 now), I woke up with no hearing for about...

At the advice of many here on the forums, I started taking a ASL class this week.. I ended up with two other left handed signers in my class!.. The instructor was caught a bit off guard when we started our sign practicing, but is more then willing to work with us and prefers we stick to one side.

agree, I do not think it is cost. Hell, the thing that bugs me is that every show/movie that is made professionally is CC’d before it is made.. it is called a script. Yes, some things like active sounds need to be inserted, but for the most part, the work is already done. It cannot be that...

:wave: Welcome to AD! If you are looking for translations, may I suggest ASLPro.com to learn the basic signs you need, but I would suggest you look around your area for a church, School, or organization that works directly with the d/Deaf to get the grammar and usage for your translations...

:gpost: I found the "Signing Time" video series to be a good start. I hit the video section of the kids’ area at my local library and checked out the videos. They did not have them all, but had a good amount of them to try out. The baby signs version could be a good start too.

I think you are just getting a bad break on your view of the AD people. I too am new to the forums, and have found the people here are nice and welcoming. Give them a chance and you will find the same. They just tend to get burnt out on getting questions right off the bat and then those...

I think you have kind of gone onto a tangent from the org. topic of the carbon-tax to medical insurance, but as for the source of oil on the planet, do I think that we are close to touching it, yes, are we close to running out, no. It is more of a consumption curve. Yes we have new tech that...

Nice, I lived in KS tell last October. When I got my new car, I was told that my vanity tag would have to be checked against other plates for the whole state, not just for the county I lived in. Perhaps it was different for each state, that or nobody else had my tag. None the less I turned it...

Free trade would only work if everyone was treated equally. This sadly is not the case. Countries pay workers less.. far less in some cases and subsidize entire production area’s to increase production for exporting profits. Keep in mind I am not singling out other countries.. WE do it...

Well, personally I tend to disagree with the statement that it is needed for our life in the form of electricity, gas, oil, ect. It is it is a must for life in the form that it is needed for vegetation to convert to Oxygen, that we in turn need to live. The production of electricity can be...

x3.. This movie is amazing in 3d, huge.. go IMAX.. it is worth it. I am going tonight to see it again with my mother that is HoH'ing as well. She tends not to go to movies due to the fact she can't read lips as well on the big screen as she can in person. despite that, I am dragging her...

I know that prejudice is alive around me, after all, my family has some messed up views on d/Deaf and sign, but I really think it is getting better with each generation. Not because we are younger then our older generations, but since we communicate more now. I really think the viewpoints have...

Man, this really burns me. I live in Kansas City, we had a light rail planed too. The plan was a nice, 4 phase system with phase one the Downtown to the airport, then future phases having branches reaching out to each of the suburbs. It was voted on by the people and was passed, and then the...

Agreed. We have some of this tech already. We do not however have the tech to link the neural activity from a living body to a cloned host.. yet. The time frame this was set up in is about 150+ years from now. Think back to what our tech level was 50 years ago, 100 years ago, and then 150...