I presented on this topic to mental health care providers at the National Alliance on Mental Illness conference in Washington, DC a year ago. A one page summary of the presentation has been published online in a pdf file; scroll down to this piece directed to non-deaf professionals on pages 28-29.
Deaf stuff: September 2005 Archives
Even though she doesn't want it, Laurene is leading in at least one poll for next Gallaudet President.
Nancy Bloch ++++++++ 2.3%
Dr. Robert Davila ++++++++ 14.4%
Dr. Carol Padden ++++++++ 10.2%
Dr. Roslyn (Roz) Rosen ++++++++ 12.8%
Dr. Laurene (Gallimore) Simms ++++++++ 39.7%
Dr. Benjamin J. Soukup, Jr. ++++++++ 20.6%
A new book by Jan-Kåre Breivik looks awesome: Deaf Identities in the Making. Local Lives, Transnational Connections.
A must read!
I'm teaching two classes at two different universities - public speaking at one and intro to mass comm at the other. PS meets 2x/week, masscom once/week plus an online discussion board (which is quite full, awaiting reading today, yeah!). On the surface there is no parallel: different topic, different structure. But both classes are concerned with effect - with the production of a desired response (and, arguably, with the fallout of unintended or unforeseen effects as well).
There are many different kinds of effects:
When I started this book by Vikram Seth on Srinivas' recommendation last spring I thought he was torturing me with an unrequited love story. I've picked it up again - trying to squeeze in (out?) the teensiest bit of pleasure reading in the midst of one of my most intensive work periods ever. Turns out there's a whole late-deafened thing going on....the process is described well I think:
"It was a strange transition from the world of sound to the world of deafness - not soundlessness, really, because I do hear all sorts of noises, only usually they're the wrong ones" (193). And this commentary on lipreading: " . . . you will never be able to learn from the lips alone if someone has lost her glove or her love" (194).
