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All, Rosa Lee Timm, our talented ASL Music performer extraordinaire, produced a hilarious ASL Music video translating Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds”. Perfect timing after all of the craziness with ASL Music linguistic and cultural appropriation issues… Rosa Lee nails it. She is the one we should promote by clicking LIKE on her Facebook Fan Page: “The Rosa Lee Show”, […]

All, In past several days, it must be one of the difficult times for the Deaf Community especially about linguistic and cultural appropriation issues, and we tried so hard to make our concerns be heard. We won some and lost many battles. We were labeled as haters. We were perceived as closed-minded. We had our peers shushing at us and […]

All, In less than 23 hours ago, Stephen Torrence, also known as CaptainValor on YouTube, wrote a powerful and insightful essay, On the Ethics of “My” Art in his activity feed on Patreon website. This article immediately shared on the Facebook and captured my attention. Torrence is a ‘signer’ who took American Sign Language classes at Texas Tech University. He […]

Hello folks, I signed up to watch the LIVE online streaming forum called #VRS Interoperability Now led by Sheri Farinha tonight. This is an historical first for consumers to watch all VRS companies’ engineers to meet together and discuss about interoperability issues. All six VRS companies are invited to participate in this forum. I learned… FIVE VRS companies showed up. […]

All, Yep. We do have a controversy. I am vocal about people using American Sign Language to translate musical lyrics. I have strong opinions about this. “ASL Music- An Oxymoron” vlog which I created on October 11, 2007 when I noticed a disturbing trend of people who are not Deaf are using American Sign Language to express themselves by ‘translating’ […]

Hello all! Yes, I am back! This issue is so important for me to stop my long time hiatus from blogging/vlogging. Disclaimer: I am working for DWS/ZVRS. For this blog, I am speaking myself as VRS consumer. Sheri Ann Farinha posted a powerful vlog on Facebook demanding VRS companies (all of VRS companies) to work on interoperability issues. Sorenson Communications […]

I did some googling and found several images which I find them entralling, mesmerizing, and interesting… Do you find them interesting too? Best, Amy Cohen Efron P.S. These images are from various websites, and I DID NOT create them.

Hello everyone, This is not a review. It is my commentary about Monday, March 4th’s Switched at Birth : Uprising (click here to view). Several days before showing of this episode, ABC Family did the massive public relations blitz to let us know that this show will be a pivotal and landmark episode presenting a television first: an installment that […]

All, After watching the most recent video, done by Chad W. Tayler and Tara Holcomb called “But She Knew Better” in response of recent events about Domestic Violence among the Deaf Community. Admittedly, as a professional in educational and mental health field, Domestic Violence is just a word that I learned and its effects. I thought I knew about this […]

All, Today, Monday, September 24, 2012 CNN updated their app for iPad devices which includes the closed captioning feature! Also, on the CNN.com website, there is a CC button available on video clips, but no captions just yet. For more information how I have blogged about CNN’s lack of captioning their online content in past few years since 2009! Three […]