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Where Sign Language Is Far From Foreign

Since I live in Rochester NY, I do have a unique perspective.

Recently DeafNation held it’s show in Rochester, NY. How many attended? I don’t think it even hit 3,000.

How does this square with 90,000 deaf or HOH that the NY Times claims?

And there’s a lot more to Rochester than just the deaf culture. How about jobs? Deaf-owned businesses? Mr. Zack is hearing, so why is he part of the story? We have a deaf insurance agent and a deaf owner of a sign language agency. Why not interview them?

Of course, the “NY Slimes” leaves out the full story, as usual.

I’m posting from another website a plea for help to get a refund from a deaf professional organization in Austin, TX which canceled a New Year’s eve party without notification and now a few individuals are having a hard time getting a refund.

Need Contact from DPHH Austin ASAP - Please help!

The DPHH-Austin website is either down, offline, or out of business.
(To be on the safe side, avoid this organization until they come out clean).

The person that was responsible for the party is Joseph Brzezowski. When I first heard about this, I said to myself “this name rings a bell”. Googling him shows that he used to operate deafcities.com which is now DOA. And years before that he ran Deaf Millennium Network (which I suspected he copied information from my deafbiz.com website). I think he used to live in Rochester, NY but if I’m wrong, I’ll publish a retraction.

I suspect that Joseph reads this blog so I’m gonna ask him out now to make good on the refunds and come out clean.

I’m getting really frustrated that there are podcastings available that I NEED to listen and there’s no transcription available (yeah, yea it’s all about the money).

Has anyone come up with a creative solution to use VRS to interpret a podcast?

Or is that a no-no?

Check to see which deaf devices are patented:

Google Patents

Back then, I wrote about podcasting and the deaf .

Thanks to Digg, a real estate agent with hearing loss wrote about how podcasting is gaining a wider acceptance in selling real estate, while forgetting about their potential deaf customers.

Podcasting and other Hearing Imparied Issues in the Real Estate Industry