New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
A deaf teacher of American Sign Language and English in a New York City public school finds he must be able to move quickly between the two cultures to establish connections with his students.
iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
As usual, a great big pile of apps were lowered in price today with the hope of attracting more customers, and it's our job to let you know what they are. Here are today's App Store discounts. (After the break...)
Joel Dehlin (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
We’re broadcasting General Conference online this weekend, as we have in the past. There are English, Portuguese, Spanish, and American Sign Language versions. We’re using encoders from a Utah company, Move Networks, to stream the video. In the future we will stream additional languages. The quality is good enough to watch on a big screen if you have a [...]
ldsWebguy (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
This weekend’s general conference will feature a new online video player using the super fantastic Move Networks streaming technologyz. The live video will be available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and American Sign Language. The quality of the video is quite amazing. The better your connection, the sharper the picture. (Try the fullscreen.) And it is [...]
Matasano Chargen (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
I have a confession to make. I’m Deaf. As in, American Sign Language is my native language along with English. I don’t hear very well either, though I fake it pretty well. I have also been working on Voice over IP security for a number of months. Yes, you may laugh now. A Deaf man working with VoIP. In [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
A deaf teacher turns to his colleagues to help him work through the challenges of teaching a class in English and American Sign Language.
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Since we all know the danger of admitting to being a John McCain-Sarah Palin supporter in certain blue states (like California), I've decided that we need our own secret greeting with which we can easily identify one another. I've come up with this: This is also American Sign Language for "moose". If you show this sign of the moose and the other person screams and runs away, don't be alarmed - you've...
Lampwork Diva aka Cindy Gimbrone (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
I'm still researching hands and thinking about how to re-invent. I'm looking at research from graduate school on sign languages - I studied Japanese Sign Language and Finnish Sign Language among other things. Did you know American Sign Language is closely related to French Sign Language? When signing, French Deaf signers would understand me better than British Deaf signers. Why? In 1816, a U.S. educator...
Lampwork Diva aka Cindy Gimbrone (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Melting glass isn't the only thing I do. I mention my other life occasionally but if you've ever seen me at a bead show, like the old Urban Glass Bead Expo, you'll see me conversing in American Sign Language. It's my other life. September through May I melt less glass and sign more. I'm a self employed, freelance certified sign language interpreter hired to facilitate equal access. A fancy way to say...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
For people diagnosed with hearing impairments, using a cellphone can be tough. Speed of communication depends on how quickly someone can send a text message. Researchers in the US, however, have devised a way for two people to use American Sign Language via video phones. It’s a work in progress, with a field test planned [...]
Cave News (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
This sign at the School for the Deaf, on East 23rd Street between Second and Third avenues in New York City, gives a lesson in American Sign Language. (click on picture to enlarge) A very cool sign - bullet holes...
Mythusmage Opines (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
A lot of people don’t know this, but there is a type of theater known as American Sign Language Opera. Instead of singing the arias, the performers sign them. Soon after his release from the... You want to read the rest, you get to go to my blog.
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The peak viewership 10:00 P.M. window opened with veteran Iowa Senator Tom Harkin addressing the convention in American Sign Language - a tribute to his late older brother Frank, whose deafness led to Tom Harkin's emergence as one of Congress' most outspoken champions of the disabled. But Harkin's main role was to introduce his fellow Iowan, former 15-term Republican Congressman Jim Leach, who lost...
Gadget Review (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
I know I take my ability to hear for granted. Every day I go about my business making calls and having in person conversations without thinking twice about the challenges the deaf or hard of hearing have. Fortunately, some college student at Washington University are on top of it, and have developed an [...]
Capitol Annex (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
[The following are the remarks of U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) at the Democratic National Convention tonight.] In American sign language) I’m happy to see so many people with disabilities here. I am proud to have your support for the Democratic Party. (Spoken) We Iowans have a strong, vibrant, two-party political system. However, we do not genuflect to blind ideology. We value thoughtful discourse...
