Just Another Day of Advocating for Quality Captions
By Michele Linder This morning my niece shared a very inspiring video on Facebook… it drew me in. I opened the link and began watching only to find that the video wasn’t captioned. Boo! Hiss! I then...
View ArticleAsk, It Really Is That Simple
By Michele Linder I’ve said this many times before when beginning a blog article, “I love to travel.” It’s true, I absolutely love going somewhere new and finding out what there is to do there… what...
View ArticleSWC Tech Corner: The Roku Revolution
by Brian Storms I am an avid appreciator of many things tech. I grew up watching my father piece together computers in our basement made up of spare parts. While I clearly recall the day my father...
View ArticleMy Green Sky: On Adapting, Not Hiding
by Kimberly My story sounds terrible if I tell it the wrong way. Here’s the wrong way: “I hid a disability for over twenty years.” Yep, terrible. That’s not what happened to me, although the bare...
View ArticleHow Did You Lose Your Hearing?
by Kimberly “How did you lose your hearing?” This seems like an innocuous question to most people, but as a person who hears it repeatedly, I feel the need to point out that it can be frustrating. I...
View ArticleGame Night
By: Sara Lundquist About a year ago I wrote about advocating for myself and how I need to work on that aspect of my life, well lots of areas. I have found that this is not an easy task, and I have...
View ArticleStuck Between Two Worlds
By: Sara Lundquist A while back I noticed the Deaf Expo was coming to the Twin Cities. This excited me greatly. A friend of mine (hard of hearing) had attended the Deaf Expo in her state and she...
View ArticleThe Words of a Stranger: On Snapping out of Hearing Loss Denial
by Kimberly When I explain to strangers that I have hearing loss, occasionally, people will respond by saying, “Oh me too. I should probably get that looked at.” This happens with shocking frequency,...
View ArticleWhat’s It Like… to experience CART/Live Event Captioning for the very first...
An excerpt from Gael Hannan’s book The Way I Hear It, used by permission. In 1995, I attended my first gathering of hard of hearing people. I was on fire with a great idea to write a book about hearing...
View ArticleMy Experience with CART
Our guest blogger is SWCer Cristal Alferez. Cristal is a Mechatronics Engineer who works for a Manufacturing Company in San Diego CA. She is Mexican, speaks Spanish fluently and currently is mastering...
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