Deaf Village

I’d planned all week on putting together a massive thankful post. I was going to have a billion points – or at least, one for nearly every day this month from a challenge to post one thing a day I was thankful for. I was going to post pictures, lots and lots of pictures. None of [...]

<img alt="stephanie_beacham.jpg" src="http://www.thedeafblog.co.uk/stephanie_beacham.jpg" width="150" height="225" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 2px 0px" "I used to get called 'Deaf Steph' at school," claims Stephanie Beacham, "and the hurt will live with me forever." "As a child, being...

I woke up all wrong today- grumpy, fed up, sad. I moochedabout the house in my pjs. Talked to a friend on IM. Then started making a lasagna for dinner. I’m working the evening shift so I try to bea good housewife and make dinner for me to take into work and some for MLM [...]

I wanted to post about the birthday party we went to this last weekend and the swimming with the CI, which didn't happen :o)Tayten's cousin, Martine, turned five and for her party, everyone was invited to the big water park. Tayten had been very excite...

<img alt="Dave Hines.jpg" src="http://www.thedeafblog.co.uk/Dave%20Hines.jpg" width="310" height="211" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 2px 0px" Busking is a tough way of making money at the best of times...

"Hopeless Romantic" on the forum has a question about the I Love You sign - in what context is it casual or serious? Here is "Hopeless Romantic's" question: I am hearing and I started seeing a deaf man recently. I am learning ASL and we have really been connecting.

I went over to Dennis' to hang out and catch up on some work while a P90X workout session was going on. After dinner, Dennis and I were surfing the Internet. He found a post about a solar powered airplane and wanted to watch video clips about it. Th...

Mommy spent some time tonight starting to organize for our trip back to Salt Lake for Christmas. She started off by printing off my two page "Travel with Peyton" list. I have included it below since it is pretty extensive and now you'll understand why...

I just saw this online and it made me laugh:The activation is typically scheduled for two days in a row: four hours on the first day and two hours on the second day. During this visit the clinician programs ...

Drew and his sister are pictured with Drew's Cochlear Implant Surgeon, Dr. Richard Kang, in the latest edition "Spotlight"...

Jamie was hoping her own representative would be cosponsor #20, but Representative Emmanuel Cleaver, II (D-Missouri) beat him to it! Jamie got an email today from a legislative assistant in Cleaver's office that said simply, "Thank you for stopping by ...

She may not been the musical theme on the X Factor (though it was fun to see John and Edward clarify that they were performing the hits of Queen, the group, and not Her Majesty), but the Queen had her annual fun day out last week on the 18th, when she paid a trip to [...]