Donald Grushkin
Time for the “ASL Cobra” to Come Out?
Today, Martin Luther King is well-respected – they’ve even given him a statue in Washington, DC. Even as MLK is respected, another Black leader of his time, Malcolm X, is not so highly regarded by many, and even ignored, forgotten or relegated to a moment in history. But if Malcolm X had never existed, [...]
I am a…… Success!
I am an Oral success. At around two and a half years old, I started talking. I started to learn to read at four years old. Today I can (if I so choose), order a hamburger at McDonald’s without having to repeat myself. I can speak to family, friends, and strangers, and they can understand me [...]
FCC “Lock-In” Plan: Hurting Deaf Consumers
Let me get this out in the open: I am not much of a “phone person.” I never really developed the habit, as I could not really use the phone well, beyond a small circle of familiar persons. When I was thirteen, I was introduced to the TTY, and this was a minor miracle, as [...]
The Whiplash of Audism
Two by two, they filed into the Temple of Audism, these hopeful Supplicants to the God Locutus. Within, they met the Oracles of Locutus, with their full beards and smarmy smiles. “Your Child shall be healed,” the Oracles cried. “But first, thee and he must drink from the River Lethe.” “Its waters shall help [...]