November 26, 2007
Deaf family against Deaf family after many years
Now is a heightened time for families especially when moments of remembrance and holiday gathering occur. This is a story I learned from an elder from one of these two Deaf families living in the same area for many years.
This is one beautiful story about how a Deaf family welcomed a Deaf roomate with nearly full blown HIV and contagious hepatitis B disease for two years. This roomate is a sweet and funny guy in his 50’s rejected by his own family because of being Deaf.
November 14, 2007
It’s our Deaf Noam now 10 months old.
He is sitting on his dad’s first Devia chair. Developmentally he is growing nicely, now finally sitting upright on his own. He is also standing on both feet with help of his both hands on something. He constantly hand babbles yet to form a sign word. He should be coming up with a sign word anytime. He is now wearing high ended digital aids (worth $5,000 fully paid by the state of Colorado) for short interventions daily, he loves music that he does actually dance to music and with 95 db loss in both ears, he can localize where sounds come from. He receives three time weekly speech auditory training. We do not yet know how good his speech auditory perception is, we will just go as to this point, no more than that.
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Devia oak chair by Uzi Buzgalo 2006
Here’s an oddity, we found this oak chair at a garage sale. Uzi saw out figures of hands and smoothened them, it is the very first Devia chair, one out of three seats here in our house. See the next posting above with our Deaf Noam sitting on it.
Comments OffOctober 31, 2007
Finally a Trick ‘n Treat
Finally a trick ‘n treat, here is newly released ASL literature work “Haunted Dorm” It was created two years ago, inspired by experience of oppression encountered in an ASL research project, I decided to turn it into a literary work piece that could serve a genre of entertainment work in ASL as well as for providing a deep thought provoking anaylsis useful for Deaf studies and social studies. The 3-min introduction explains about four actual characters how their shameness of being so ruthless oppressants and the point of climax of the story are intended to be interpreted.
In this work, I added a variety of cinematic effects that incorporates in ASL parameters to settings of the story to enhance effects. I wish to point out two well known Deaf film makers and a Deaf vlogger who also used similar cinematic effects in their works to add greater dimensions to our language and culture.
Daniele Le Rose’s presentation of “The Le Rose Cut” H-M-H model theory as well as Rene Visco’s film work “Audism” at LightKitchen that demonstrates these cinematic effects
The “Haunted Dorm” story lasts 11 minute, it is not like a 3 to 5 min quickie. It is for entertainment in first version, consider it not a final product yet.
To cite:
Baer, Anne Marie. (2007, October 31). Finally a Trick’n Treat. Retrieved (put on date when you download it), from http://www.annemariemetaasl.com/2007/10/31/finally-a-trick-n-treat/
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To cite:
Baer, Anne Marie. (2007, October 31). Haunted Dorm. Retrieved (put on date when you download it), from http://www.annemariemetaasl.com/2007/10/31/haunted-dorm/
Comments OffOctober 29, 2007
Me and my grandmother on the 1st day of Sukkot holiday. Uzi Buzgalo 2007
This is Uzi Buzgalo’s other Devia artwork recently completed. This is a remarkable example of how a Deaf individual self empowers by accomplishing something on his own and enjoys the ownership. This is in reference to my previous vlog discussion about Deaf empowerment issues, Difference between being self empowered and empowered by others. Instead of having to be with his all hearing families to celebrate Sukkot holiday, a Jewish tradition to build huts and tents, he stayed with his grandmother to build his own little one. His grandmother remains in his fondest memory for using Moroccan gestures and home signs that provided the foundation of his language development in his early childhood. You can notice his grandmother holding the chair steadily to allow her 10 year old Deaf grandson (Uzi) build his hut and self empower himself this way while his families celebrate Sukkot in the far distance as can be seen in the upper left of the painting.
See Uzi Buzgalo’s Arts Gallery
Comments OffOctober 19, 2007
How processes of empowerment may differ in one having the ownership and self autonomy critical for Deaf individuals, community, and socialization processes. 4 min
To cite:
Baer, Anne Marie. (2007, October 18). How processes of empowerment may differ in one having the ownership and self autonomy critical for Deaf individuals, community, and socialization processes. Retrieved (put on date when you download it), from http://www.annemariemetaasl.com/2007/10/19/how-processes-of-empowerment-may-differ-in-one-having-the-ownership-and-self-automation-critical-for-deaf-individuals-community-and-socialization-processes-4-min/
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