I have lymphoma. There you all go…. You ask me what this has to do with my deafness. A lot! For four weeks, my mind was befuddled, and I had severe anemia. Every movement I made required effort, very valuable tidbits of energy when I had very low energy. My Denise took me to several….
That was not me saying that. It was voiced by Amar’e Stoudemire1, a basketball great who played for the NY Knicks, one of the NYC teams that I support no matter where I now reside. He answered my question. But hey, I’m way ahead….let’s start at the beginning. It took place at a recent fund-raising event….
For five years (from August 2009 to May 2014), I taught d/Deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) students biology at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), one of the nine colleges at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and I tutored D/HH students taking biology courses at the College of Science (COS) and, to….
Now, all you readers know the story of my brief stay at Gallaudet.1 Some of you might think that I continue to hold a personal vendetta against Derek. Well, I’m just presenting my opinion as to why Derek was wrong in letting me go. It’s been more than 12 years since that fiasco, and the….
I had wanted to work at Gallaudet University for some time. For those who don’t know much about Gallaudet, it is one of only two undergraduate institutes for the Deaf that were mandated by the US Congress1 and it gained worldwide fame for its Deaf President Protest in 1988.2 The protest was the reason I….
Loretta was my classmate at the Lexington School for the Deaf from 1967 to 1973. She was an intelligent student with an expressive face. We went our separate ways in the Fall of 1973 when I was mainstreamed into the New York City (NYC) Public School System. What is so special about Loretta? We shared….
I wrote an earlier blog on the dangers that my deafness had presented to myself.1 There, I mentioned my automobile accident and described my being assaulted by a gang of young teenagers, all of which occurred more than 30 years ago. I added I’d write a blog about a third event indicative of risks that….
Everyone who has a hearing loss prefers one identification over other identifications, all of which are associated with hearing loss. Hearing loss can occur at birth, or it can happen at a later age. It can remain constant or can become progressively worse over time. Depending on the type of hearing loss and the cultural,….
For those who are not familiar with SCUBA, it is an abbreviation for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. It has enabled millions of divers to explore underwater for an extended period of time, and I’m one of them. Well, I used to be one of them, because I have not done any SCUBA diving for more….
I was a graduate student at Dr. James Saunders’ laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At that time, the laboratory focused on both the structural and functional aspects of hearing loss and recovery in chickens. The laboratory had other research interests such as the structural aspects of middle ear bone….