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Ni Gallant: February 2012
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A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision." - Donna Brazile. There was an error in this gadget. Wednesday, 22 February 2012. A quick note on. SUBTITLES! Having happily and avidly read Deaf Firefly's. Recent blog post about Subtitle Apps I was interested to check the whole idea out for myself. So I've dowloaded on to my android phone the SubtitleDroid (it's free! And tried it out. Amazingly, very amazingly! Definetely worth checking out I think! But apparently our s...
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Ni Gallant: Pondering Noises...
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A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision." - Donna Brazile. There was an error in this gadget. Monday, 10 December 2012. Of course with my positive role model hat on I know that confidence to shout out and feel at ease with your own deafness is important for your own well-being (and everyone around you's! But there are some days when you feel like going oh f* * it and putting on your "I don't speak hearing person" tshirt. What about the world around me? Certainly ...
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Ni Gallant: April 2012
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A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision." - Donna Brazile. There was an error in this gadget. Monday, 23 April 2012. The Battle: The Voice UK Vs. The X Factor - subtitle nightmares. On Saturday night I settled down with my family to watch the first round of "battles" on The Voice. The aim of the game, as such, was to eliminate one contestenant from each duet so that each judge ends up with only 5 acts to take through to the live shows. And if this is the state of...
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Ni Gallant: September 2012
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A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision." - Donna Brazile. There was an error in this gadget. Thursday, 13 September 2012. So yesterday the press (and Action on Heairng Loss) published a story which has - yet again - brought the Deaf community together in what has mainly been shock and sadness. The BBC news story Deaf Gerbils hear again after stem cell "cure". Will the 90% of deaf kids born to hearing families really never know what it means to be deaf? It was wh...
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Ni Gallant: April 2013
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A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision." - Donna Brazile. There was an error in this gadget. Friday, 19 April 2013. Next Monday I start on the next big adventure of my university degree - my three day Social Work student placement. I've bought clothes, I've mapped the route and worked out the right bus number. I've even decided which bag I'm going to take (don't laugh. I like to be organised! There are numerous problems I've encountered so far. To me as a Social...
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Ni Gallant: February 2013
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A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision." - Donna Brazile. There was an error in this gadget. Monday, 25 February 2013. How not to offer a medical service. I have a deaf friend around the same age as me who recently discovered she was pregnant, although she is in a relationship she was very unsure about whether or not she wanted to keep the baby and in the end decided to have an abortion. When she got to the reception she gave her name to a receptionist who then ...
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Ni Gallant: May 2012
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A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision." - Donna Brazile. There was an error in this gadget. Thursday, 31 May 2012. It's that time again where I can very proudly give you the link to my latest piece of writing on the Limping Chicken! This one is about Disabled Students Allowance and the process you have to go through in order to qulaify, have your assessment etc. Thankfully it's a fairly happy story so far :). Click here for my DSA post on the Limping Chicken :).
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Ni Gallant: Fairy Ears...
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A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision." - Donna Brazile. There was an error in this gadget. Tuesday, 30 October 2012. This is another blog post by my friend Eloise. I asked her to write about overhearing this conversation because it shocked me so much! It was a very bad day in audiology today. Not for me, but for a girl who looked to be the age of around six or seven waiting with her mother to go into an appointment. I want to be the same, but with fairy ears!
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Ni Gallant: July 2012
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A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision." - Donna Brazile. There was an error in this gadget. Saturday, 21 July 2012. Did you miss me? You probably haven't noticed but I haven't been around much these last couple of weeks! I've been off travelling around the countries doing lots of fun things, especially NDCS events! Also get to meet Deaf role models who share their experiences of secondary school and what worked for them. I've just got back from my latest NDCS e...
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MocraGifts: September 2014
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Removing the Stigma of Hearing Loss, etc. Monday, September 8, 2014. We haven't come very far, baby! At least, not in Canada.). Meanwhile, it is National Lipreading Week (Sept. 8-12th) in the UK. The Queen is on Heroin". Http:/ lizsdeafblog.blogspot.ca/2014/09/national-lipreading-awareness-week.html. Her Majesty actually wears hearing protection at many of those "too loud" performances she must attend. Smart lady! When representations of hearing loss have appeared ( hearing aid/audiologist advertisements.
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