Delbert Whetter

The magic isn’t over.

In two weeks will be the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Milano-Cortina, in which you’ll be able to witness exceptional athletes with disabilities do things you’d never be able to do. ✨

ASL Mythbusters The most frequent of the FAQs

Last night I mentioned only 8% of hearing parents learn enough sign to have a 2-way conversation with their deaf child. Many reasons, but a lot of stems from misinfo. Here's a letter of mine where I busted some of the biggest ASL/ language acquisition myths: buttondown.com/signs+wonder...

Thank you for your vigilance and advocacy. You are doing such important work in the most urgent of times! May I ask where I can find the source for the 8% statistic that you cite? This is a new statistic for me and would love to read the study that produced it.

LA folks - please keep an eye out for Steven Savage.

He was last seen on the 4200 block of Carlin Avenue in Lynwood around 8:30 PM on January 23.

Savage is deaf, non-verbal and dependent on medication. His family is extremely worried.

This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."

Star Trek reference = insta-follow. I may be proven wrong but so far on @bsky.app I’m doing okay

‘Wicked: For Good’ Script Changes Improve Disability Representation, but Issues Remain A look at how the "Wicked: For Good" changed a plot point involving Elphaba's sister Nessarose from the stage version.

I loved a lot about the Wicked duology, especially part one. But the problems of the show could only be fixed SO much. Variety gave me the chance to look at how far For Good goes with representation.

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YOU GUYS, IT'S PLAYOFF DAY! #goducks

No other way to put it. This is eugenics and if you think this ends here, history says otherwise.

Eugenics rearing its ugly head

A deaf Utah man says ICE agents injured him months ago and he’s still in pain. Now he’s suing. A Utah man who is deaf says ICE agents discriminated against him and injured him, in what he says in a lawsuit was an unconstitutional search.

ICE agents violently detained another disabled person, causing severe injuries.

Arturo Ruvalcaba lives in Utah and is deaf.

Three ICE agents grabbed him at a bus stop.

He tried to use sign language to communicate his disability to them, and they interpreted that as “resisting arrest”.

But is there a third way? There’s always a third way.

Congratulations!!! Well deserved!

Giving a damn about accessibility A candid and practical handbook for designers.

Sheri Byrne-Haber's "Giving A Damn About Accessibility" has great tips on how to deal with people who challenge or dismiss the need for accessibility.

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EA makes eight new accessibility patents free to all Technologies include grapple assist, speech and audio generation tools, and improvements to its text and size contrast tool Fonttik

Fonttik expansion includes colorblind simulation filters to better design accessible text and identify barriers! Shoutouts to our accessibility engineering folks for innovating tools at EA and making them available worldwide for all game developers to use! ♿️👏

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To the Editor: I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body. I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities. There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate. For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema. Jason Jacoby Lee New York

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'KPop Demon Hunters' Shows How Culturally Authentic Storytelling is Done, Done, Done Will Hollywood learn the right lessons from Netflix and Sony Animation's runaway phenomenon?

Great article from one of my favorite writers, @therebeccasun.bsky.social with great takeaways on the importance of quality storytelling; meaningful collaboration with authentic creatives; and discarding the "outsiders gaze"-an overused, boring cliche that is all too often a gateway to tropes.

Deaf Mongolian immigrant held by ICE in California for 4 months with no access to interpreter — CalMatters A disabled immigrant’s detention underscores the shift in asylum policies at the Mexico border since President Trump took office.

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@flavorflav.bsky.social is an international treasure. Love to see it.

Are these vehicles road legal? License plates visible? Tags current? Tinted windows in compliance with regulations? If not, our law enforcement needs to impound those vehicles. All federal officials’ vehicles must be in compliance so why should ICE be treated any differently.

Can’t quite put my finger on it but somethings off with this poster.

SYNOPSIS: Following a seven-year long surrogacy process, gay deaf couple Alan Roth and Brian Blais finally brought their hearing twin babies home from India to New York. However, their journey through fatherhood meets new challenges when the increasingly rambunctious kids start screaming "you don't understand me" at them. "LOUD Love" is their story, a documentary about parenting, growth and its occasional hurdles. WHEN: July 12, 2025 at 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PT Tickets: http://tiny.cc/loudlovebravemaker2025 Price: Tickets are FREE (get your tickets at the above link) Where: BraveMaker Film Fest 1044 Middlefield Rd (2nd Floor Community Room) Redwood City, CA 94062

Excited to return to BraveMaker Film Festival in Redwood City to screen our award winning documentary “Loud Love” on July 12! FREE tickets here: tiny.cc/loudlovebrav...

The joys of indie film producing encapsulated in 25 seconds of video game footage.

We need more politicians like this treating people with disabilities as constituents AND as a key voting bloc.

A MAD Look At Movie Making

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#madmagazine
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