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		<title>The Legacy of Lady Warnock</title>
		<link>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/25/the-legacy-of-lady-warnock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were deep in the bowels of Parliament and in the distance there was a small woman slowly making her way closer to us. She slightly hunched as if the weight of Parliament rested on her shoulders but her face was light and at ease. Her hair was bravely short and still moved in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kim&#8217;s Game and the Kinaesthetic Thinker</title>
		<link>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/23/kims-game-and-the-kinaesthetic-thinker/</link>
		<comments>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/23/kims-game-and-the-kinaesthetic-thinker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signed language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flemming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imagined]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim's game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kinaesthetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piaget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sensorimotor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[signed language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stokoe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[topographical space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VAK model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visual]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://deafcapital.blog.com/?p=59</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Deaf people are people of the eye.&#8221; &#8220;Deaf people see things differently.&#8221; &#8220;Deaf people can see more.&#8221; The experiment on peripheral vision was used as an indicator that Deaf people better utilised their sight compared to non-deaf people. I am still left scratching my head. You know why? My peripheral vision is just rubbish. Rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thought Experiment</title>
		<link>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/21/the-thought-experiment/</link>
		<comments>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/21/the-thought-experiment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signed language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[thought]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When most of us imagine an experiment, we imagine people dressed in white coats with subjects succumbing to their will. In reality, these tests are done under careful scrutiny and has a lengthy ethical review process. But there is a different type of experiment that doesn&#8217;t require subjects, it is a thought experiment. One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raising the Deaf Flag</title>
		<link>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/20/raising-the-deaf-flag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symbolic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swedish Deaf Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[symbolic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WFD]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://deafcapital.blog.com/?p=54</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many symbols that have been used in our day and age that provide a symbolic representation of an identity. A flag is only one of them. There are also salutes, oaths, statues, symbolic shapes (crosses and stars), handshakes/nose rubs, badges, dances, costumes, hair styles, headwear, books, jewellery and more. All have been utilised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deaf Capital Thermometer: July 2011</title>
		<link>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/15/deaf-capital-thermometer-july-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/15/deaf-capital-thermometer-july-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BSL Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clin d'Oeil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Davies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influential]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is going hot and cold in the Deaf village? Here is a thermometer of events cooling down or heating up Deaf capital.]]></description>
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		<title>The Experiment: The Shopping Test</title>
		<link>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/13/the-experiment/</link>
		<comments>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/13/the-experiment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signed language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BSL]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://deafcapital.blog.com/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was first introduced to British Signed Language in 1989 and it wasn&#8217;t until 1993, when I became fluent enough to hold a conversation with any Deaf person. I felt like the honorary guest who cuts the red ribbon without an audience, it was the start of a new era. I felt I had attained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The GDP of the Deaf Village</title>
		<link>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/12/the-gdp-of-the-deaf-village/</link>
		<comments>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/12/the-gdp-of-the-deaf-village/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[product]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://deafcapital.blog.com/?p=45</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It happened in a lucid dream. I was walking through a village but this place was different. It was so easy to see who was at home and who wasn&#8217;t. The front of the houses had large windows, like shop fronts, with drawn blinds. The lights were on but some had the blinds drawn up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1945-70: The Height of Loquomania</title>
		<link>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/08/1945-70-the-height-of-loquomania/</link>
		<comments>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/08/1945-70-the-height-of-loquomania/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signed language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1889]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1945]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1948]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cued speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gramsci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loquomania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montessori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[normalisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paget gorman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phillips Deaf Unit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[puppet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speak]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://deafcapital.blog.com/?p=41</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before the Second World War, the practice of oral education was threadbare. There were a few niche schools supporting children with residual hearing to develop their speech but most children were educated through the combined method. It was the combination of lipreading, fingerspelling and sign language. Two events took place that completely changed the landscape: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deaf People and The Cyborg</title>
		<link>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/07/deaf-people-and-the-cyborg/</link>
		<comments>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/07/deaf-people-and-the-cyborg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affinity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cochlear implant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[essentialism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donna Harroway challenged the essentialist feminist. It was common thinking that women have a different biology compared to men, therefore they are different. The relationship between women and men is expressed as a duality. Our current understanding of relationships between men and women, black and white, abled and disabled, and deaf and hearing creates a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Professionalisation of Deaf Cinema</title>
		<link>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/06/the-professionalisation-of-deaf-cinema/</link>
		<comments>http://deafcapital.blog.com/2011/07/06/the-professionalisation-of-deaf-cinema/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clin d'Oeil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digitic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metaphor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pride]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent awards ceremony at Clin d&#8217;Oeil has awarded the heroes of modern Deaf cinema and they are from the UK. They are Charlie Swinbourne, Bim Ajadi, William Mager, Louis Neethling and Ted Evans. These are the names you should remember and watch for years to come. They have taken the traditions of Deaf theatre [...]]]></description>
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