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Ensuring accessibility of hotels to the deaf

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Introduction One of the questions deaf people ask is what happens when you're deaf and you go to a hotel? Hearing people can take an alarm clock or get a wake-up call. What do you do...?
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1995 Dec 30

NAD Ideology

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Introduction

This document lists the Seven Vital Reforms which were published on the DEAF-L list on 21 Oct 1994.

They are the seven major issues that VPAA Rosen magnifies in her article, 'Advocacy and Agendas in the United States' published in the same source: 'PARALLEL VIEWS,' (pp.46-48).

"The major concern of the NAD (National Association of the Deaf) is to shift paradigms and alter people's mind-sets. This means changing permanently from old to new perceptions and attitudes. (Caps = italic)

Deaf Airplane Pilots

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NOTE: The information in this Web page is up-to-date as of Sept. 1995. Things may have changed since Sept. 11, 2001. Before acting on the information in this Web page, make inquiries. See also Flight of the Gin Fizz - an account of Henry Kisor's repeating Cal Rodgers' historic 1911 flight from ocean to ocean.
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2005 Dec 28

Captioning

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Introduction There is an excellent FAQ about all aspects of closed captioning, written by Gary D. Robson. Its URL is: http://www.robson.org/capfaq/. See also Jamie Berke's Captioning Web at http://www.captions.org/.
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2005 Dec 15

CD-ROMs and the deaf

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Introduction The following information is of concern to anyone involved in manufacturing, desigining, distributing or using CD-ROMs. You are urged to bring it to the attention of anyone whom it may concern. The goal is to prevent a new technology from becoming an handicap and curse to people with hearing problems.
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2005 Nov 17

A Dream World

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Introduction This document contains ideas about how would a dream world look like in the eyes of adult Deaf people.
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2005 Dec 1
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