DU Visits RIT/NTID

What a day! Thanks to the wonderful Erin Kane of the NTID, David and I had a packed day yesterday when we visited the Rochester Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Technology for the Deaf. Let me tell you a little about it! RIT is an extremely well respected technical institute and is…

DU Visits Gallaudet and the MSSD

The last couple of days have been very inspiring for me personally and professionally and have shed light on a number of core areas of my Fellowship research. We had the great privilege of visiting Gallaudet University and the MSSD. For those uninitiated in all-things-deaf, Gallaudet is the world’s first and only university that offers…

The Project So Far…

Hi All We are about halfway through the trip now – cant believe how fast it is going. We have had some lovely meetings and some great informal meet-ups with people – it is amazing how organic this experience is. Before leaving, I really wanted every minute of the day to be planned and meetings…

Liberty and Equality

All my life I have believed in the right to equality, access, freedom of choice and the right to independence. Through my experiences as a child through to adulthood, it has often perplexed my why such basic concepts would be used by the masses to allude to a better world, yet the elude those who…