Hear It Loud
Some of you know that I am a fan of CNN's Young People Who Rock blog. Usually, Nicole Lapin finds some really great stories of people under the age of 30 doing some remarkable things. A couple of weeks ago, Lapin made us all aware of Sean Forbes, a deaf musician who founded a non-profit called Deaf Performing Artists' Network (D-PAN for short) formed to make music and music culture accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing community by creating deaf-centric interpretations of songs and music videos. Pretty cool stuff...
Some of you also know that I have a son who is deaf. Luke will be 4 this May. He loves music (You should hear him scream into the mic on Wii HS Musical -- its hilarious!) but can't ever frickin' hear it and it kills me when everyone else is singing along in our mini-van on a road trip or whatever and he has no idea what is going on.
Luke wears a hearing aid in his left ear so he can hear some. However, it is very likely that Luke's hearing is progressively getting worse. So I am digging Sean Forbes' D-PAN. You can read the post about Sean HERE and check out D-PAN HERE.
Meet my son Luke. That is a bowling ball not a gumball.
October 21st, 2009 - 22:33
Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?
December 25th, 2009 - 08:47
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?