Source: https://rid.org/june-29-ceo-message/ Hello, I’m Star Grieser and I’m RID’s new CEO. I recognize that I’m coming in during a time where a lot is happening; a lot of changes within our organization. I want to first thank RID Board President, Dr. Jonathan Webb. Last year he came to me after seeing my work with CASLI […]
Branton Stewart DMAL Message of Resignation Support
Jonathan Webb announces resignation from RID Board
Purification of ASL, no! by MJ Bienvenu
Alan Wilding / #deafstory
Alan talks broadly about Deaf education, his own education, and describes purposefully failing his 6th grade classes, at the suggestion of his Mother (a teacher) so they would send him back to to the School for the Deaf. He talks about the history of ISDB/IESDB and what contributed to saving the school from closing a […]
Peggy Cutler / #deafstory
Peggy Cutler shares, in ASL, aspects of her high school experience, foster parenting, and self-employment history. Please comment here or at https://facebook.com/deafstory Click here to see all of the collected stories.
Davina Snow / #deafstory
Davina Snow describes smashing the family car through a wall of a McDonalds restaurant a few hours after getting her drivers license. Don’t forget to check out Steven Snow’s story (Davina’s husband). It’s an even more dramatic “car story” involving Davina. Feel free to comment here or at https://facebook.com/deafstory
Janette Lancaster / #deafstory
1997-2021
Can you believe it? Shawn, no longer taking care of business for NIS? If she wasn’t the face of NIS for 24 years, she was certainly, for hundreds of vendors and customers, the voice! Shawn is smart, humble, even-keel, steady, honest, compassionate, and could navigate all elements of the business. She also became everyone’s go-to […]
Steven Snow / #deafstory
Steven Snow here describes, in ASL, the birth of one of his children, in the family car, while he searches in vain for the hospital in a city he has yet to become familiar with. Don’t forget to check out Davina’s car story, (Steven’s wife). How would it be to later drive the car you […]