Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | yesterday
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) | 27/08/2008
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) | 26/08/2008
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) | 26/08/2008
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) | 26/08/2008
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) | 26/08/2008
[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...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
New research by engineers at the University of Washington has resulted in a new video encoding scheme capable of allowing individuals to communicate via American Sign Language on US cellular networks. Read More...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
“But American Sign Language just doesn’t seem to get the same sort of respect, despite the fact that it still has more than 50 percent more enrollments than Mandarin. Arabic, which has also had a much faster growth rate than that of Mandarin, hasn’t received the same level of hype either.” [Read]
I'm Gina Smith (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
about Mister Rogers. (thanks to Mental Floss). 1. Even Koko the Gorilla loved him. Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English. What...
How to of the Day (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Get a PDF "cheat sheet" of this graphic hereIf you've decided to learn sign language, whether just a little or a lot, the first step is to learn to fingerspell the alphabet. Different regions use different alphabets, some of them using one hand and some of them using two hands. This article focuses on the ASL (American Sign Language) alphabet, which is used in the United States, Canada, Germany, Austria,...
Wireless and Mobile News (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Verizon now offers information about its Nationwide Messaging plans in online videos in American Sign Language (ASL) to better serve customers who are deaf or hard of hearing. The videos feature Tom Boudrow of the Marlboro, Mass.-based Verizon Center for...
P.I.S.S.D. (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
From the good people at ASLPro comes an excellent video dictionary of American Sign Language letters and words. If you're trying to learn sign language to help a person who has a disability or if you're wanting to teach sign language to your child, this is a great site.
Personal Injury and Social Security (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
From the good people at ASLPro comes an excellent video dictionary of American Sign Language letters and words. If you're trying to learn sign language to help a person who has a disability or if you're wanting to teach sign...
Mental Motes. (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
A couple of years ago, I took a class in American Sign Language. It's actually very different than British Sign and Canadian Sign: To the point that those speaking each language need an interpretor of sorts. I have heard a few good stories about that and the mis-signing of words. Me, I'd picked up sign-language book, which literally translated the spoken (as in, basic American) word to sign-language,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
SALT LAKE CITY - Sorenson Communications™, the nation’s leading provider of Video Relay Services (VRS) for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate, today announced a new award. Th
