CSCDHH GA Newsletter - January 1996 Issue

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Community Service Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
1609 19th Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98122-2848
(206) 322-4996 V/TTY
(206) 720-3251 FAX

CSCDHH GA
January 19965
1996 - Issue #1

Happy New Year!

Safeco Sponsored Breakfast With Signing Santa Brings Holiday Cheers To CSCDHH

Calls From US West Payphones To Washington Telephone Relay Service To Become Easier

• Calls have become easier - and, in some cases, cheaper - for persons placing calls with a TTY from US West Communications payphones.

• The same will be true to persons placing calls from US West payphones to persons who use a TTY.

• Under an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission:
  • Local calls placed from US West pay telephones and routed through the Washington Telecommunications Relay Service (WSTRS) will be free. WSTRS facilitates business and personal calls between traditional telephone users and person who use a TTY to communicate by telephone. WSTRS assistance is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

  • Long distance calls placed from US West pay telephones and routed through WSTRS will cost no more than the same calls using coin. These calls may be billed to either a US West Calling Card or another billing option accepted by the WSTRS.

• These payment policies were issued by the Federal Communications Commission in August and are supported by US West, local and long distance telephone companies, WSTRS and organizations representing persons who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired.

• Customers may receive more information about these policies or obtain a US West Calling Card by calling (800) 477-7211 (voice only). TTY users should dial (800) 223- 3131.

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Community Events

Thursday, January 4th

- The Regional Education Center for Deaf Students presents a two-credit course, Job Preparation Course, for serious job seekers who are deaf or hard of hearing. Topics range from developing a high-quality, professional resume to participating in mock interviews and using an interpreter effectively in a job interview, and much more. For more information, contact Sara Geballe at (206) 587-4183 V/TTY.

Saturday, January 6th

- Interpreter Richard Shafer's memorial service at the Graham Visitors Center, Washington Park Arboretum. The service begins at 3:00pm. Contact Jaine Richards (206) 935- 8653 for special interpreting needs or directions.

January 12th and 13th

- Bilingual Bicultural Vision presents Everything You Wanted to Know About Bilingual/Bicultural Education, But Were Afraid To Ask, a lecture and workshop by Laurene Gallimore. See flyer in this issue.

Saturday, January 13th

- Deaf Connection will be held at Phinney Ridge Community Center from 10:00am - Noon.Brighten up that dreary winter room with a brand new light switch plate. Bring small trinkets to decorate or use our cool stuff. ASL storytelling by Judie Seid. Contact Talia Goeke at (206) 784-5613 V/TTY for address.

- Seattle Children's Theatre presents an ASL interpreted performance of The Magic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle at 2:00pm. The Magic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle addresses parenthood with irony and humor. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle leads children and parents to create solutions with the ever-present ingredients of imagination and perspective. Tickets are $11 for children, students, and seniors; $17 for adults. Call (206) 441-3322 V/TTY for reservations.

Monday, January 15th

- Patricia "Trix" Bruce, Employment Specialist at Community Enterprises of Issaquah is facilitating a training on Time Management in relations to seeking employment. The training will be held at the Sammamish Office Support (310 3rd Ave NE, Issaquah) from 6:30pm - 9:00pm and costs $35 per person. Registration and fee must be received at Community, Enterprises of Issaquah, 690 NW Juniper, Issaquah, WA 98027 by January 12th. Call Trix at (206) 392-1812 V/TTY for more information.

- Submission deadline for the GA newsletter at 5:00pm.

Wednesday, January 17th

- Dr. George Gates of Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center will be speaking at SHHH - Eastside Chapter's General Meeting at the Bellevue Library (1111 110th Ave NE - Room 1, 1st Floor) at 7:00pm.

Friday, January 19th

- Bilingual Bicultural Vision Annual Meeting begins at 6:30pm at CSCDHH. See page 9 and 14 for more details.

Saturday, January 20th

- Silent Games is an opportunity to increase your sign language skills and interact with deaf, deaf-blind, and hard of hearing people. Begins at 7:00pm at CSCDHH. See flyer in this issue.

Weekend, January 20th - 21st

- The Seattle Lesbian and Gay Chorus proudly presents Tales, Rhymes & Parables - Adventures at Meany Theatre. The performances are at 8:00pm on Saturday and 7:00pm on Sunday. The chorus will perform excerpts from Carmina Burana and other classical pieces as well as perform The Gentle Dragon, a tale about a dragon who would rather write poetry than belch fire at unsuspecting victims. A tale of prejudice and reconciliation. ASL interpreted by Dimitri Azadi. Tickets are $15.00 and available at Red & Black Bookstore, Bailey Coy, and Elliott Bay Books. Call (206) 860-SLGC V for additional ticket outlets or email at SLGC@eor.com

Tuesday, January 23rd

- CSCDHH's Board Meeting begins at 6:00pm at CSCDHH.

- Renton Technical College (3000 NE 4th St, Renton) begins American Sign Language classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Cost is $55 per person. Leslie Jacobs will be the instructor. For more information, call Kristi at (206) 235-2352, x5517.

Wednesday, January 24th

- Kiss of the Spider Woman - The Musical will be presented by the 5th Avenue Theatre. Kiss of the Spider Woman is centered on the experiences of two men, a flamboyant homosexual and a political prisoner, jailed in a brutal South American prison. The ASL interpreted performance begins at 8:00pm Call (206) 625-1418 for more information.

Saturday, January 27th

- CSCDHH sponsors Introduction to World Wide Web Workshop, presented by Gerry Grimm and Debi Westwood, from 9:00 am - 11:00am. See page 15 for more details.

- Bilingual Bicultural Vision's Board Meeting will be held at the Hearing, Speech, and Deafness Center from 9:30am - 1:30pm.

- The Northwest AIDS Foundation and Smart Women presents HOT DAM! women, sex, and latex workshop for lesbians and bisexual women. See page 10 for details.

FUTURE EVENTS

More details in the February's GA or call CSCDHH.

Saturday, February 10th

- CSCDHH's Bowl-A-Thon.

Saturday, February 17th

- Silent Games Night begins at 7:00pm.

Saturday, February 24th

- Bilingual Bicultural Vision's Advisory Council Meeting is scheduled for 9:30am - 11:30am at CSCDHH. Bilingual Bicultural Vision's Board of Directors' Meeting will be held from 1:00pm - 4:00pm at CSCDHH.

Weekend, March 8th - 10th

- AIDS Project of the Deaf's HIV/AIDS Training workshop.

Saturday, April 13th

- CSCDHH Bingo begins at 7:00pm.

Bilingual Bicultral Vision: Moving To The Forefront In Deaf Education

• For over the past two years, a newly established non- profit organization, known as Bilingual Bicultural Vision (BiBi), has been working towards promoting a bilingual, bicultural school for a diversity of deaf children in the Puget Sound Region.

• BiBi believes in academic excellence and the full emotional, social, intellectual and physical development of each student.

• The Board of Directors, which has a majority of deaf members, and Advisory Council (comprised of dynamic and concerned deaf and hearing parents of deaf children, interpreters, educators, deaf community members and students) have been conducting a needs assessment to determine family needs and interests in bilingual, bicultural education.

• The Children's Program, a bilingual, bicultural educational playgroup, currently meets on a monthly basis. It has grown steadily and continues to be an exemplary model of the importance and effectiveness of bilingual, bicultural education.

• On January 12th - 13th, BiBi and Gallaudet University Regional Center at Ohlone College presents Everything You Wanted to Know About Bilingual/Bicultural Education, But Were Afraid To Ask by Laurene Gallimore (see flyer). This fund-raising event includes a lecture and workshop.

• Laurene Gallimore is a Deaf educator and Assistant Professor/Coordinator of Teacher Preparation in Deaf Education at Western Oregon State College. She was formerly principal and assistant superintendent of education at the Indiana School for the Deaf (ISD), where she was instrumental in the grassroots movement to convert ISD to a bilingual, bicultural mode currently in use. She has also worked on deaf education bills, such as the 1995 ASL Bill passed in Indiana, that ensure the rights of and to improve the quality of education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children.

• BiBi's 1st Annual Meeting will be held Friday, January 19th, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. at CSCDHH. Everyone is welcome to attend. Raffle drawing for exciting prizes!

• See Community Events for other upcoming events and meetings.

Federal Communications Commission Launches Inquiry on Closed Captioning, Video Description

• The Federal Communications Commission issued on Friday, December 1st a Notice of Inquiry (95-484), regarding two services that benefit millions of Americans with disabilities: closed captioning and video description of television programming.

• The Commission seeks comment on the current availability, cost, and uses of these two services. It also requests the public's views on the appropriate means of promoting the wider use of closed captioning and video description in programming delivered by television broadcasters, cable operators, and other video program providers.

• Legislation currently pending in Congress would, for the first time, generally mandate the closed captioning of television video programming, and also would require the FCC to study the uses of video description. The record developed in this proceeding will enable the Commission to expedite the implementation of this legislation if enacted into law.

• Closed captioning provides important benefits primarily for individuals with hearing disabilities by displaying the audio portion of a television signal as printed words on the television screen. Video description is a more recent innovation that benefits individuals with vision disabilities. It provides audio descriptions of a program's key visual elements that are inserted during the natural pauses in the program's dialogue.

• There are presently no Commission rules regarding video description. As for closed captioning, the Commission has adopted a number of rules to promote closed captioning technology. In 1976, it adopted rules reserving line 21 of the vertical blanking interval for the transmission of closed captioning. In 1991, it adopted rules implementing the Television Decoder Circuitry Act, which generally requires television receivers that are 13 inches or larger to be equipped with circuitry capable of receiving and displaying closed captioning.

• The Notice of Inquiry, which was initiated by and coordinated with the Commission's Disabilities Issues Task Force and Mass Media Bureau, seeks comment on the following general issues:
  • The public interest benefits of closed captioning and video description;

  • The current availability of closed captioned and video described television programming, including the degree to which availability varies by program source, program type, market size and other factors;

  • The potential impact of advanced television and digital technologies on the availability of closed captioning and video description;

  • The cost of closed captioning and video description, as well as the current sources of supply and funding for these services;

  • The market incentives for closed captioning and video description;

  • What if any measures the Commission should take to promote closed captioning and video description; and

  • In the event mandatory requirements are deemed necessary, the general form that they should take. The item seeks comment on which entities should be subject to such requirements, appropriate exemptions from any requirements, technical and quality standards, transition mechanisms, and strategies to improve competition and innovation in the provision of these services.

• Comments can be sent to Charles Logan, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC 20554. Deadline date: January 29, 1996. (TFA, 12/08/95)

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