Sign language

Sign language YouTube round-up

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Cathy Heffernan selects her favourite vlogs and sign language clips on the web

Stuart Jeffries: Mixed messages in sign language

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

British Sign Language is the preferred means of communication for 50,000 deaf Britons, and, like any language, it has its regional variations and idiosyncracies. Those can lead to mix-ups or embarrassment, signer Marcel Hirshman tells Stuart Jeffries

Monkey Trouble

Richard@Home (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Koko the gorilla is famous for mastering more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language, which she uses to communicate with Stanford researchers. That’s not all she’s learned from humans. One day her attendants discovered that a steel sink in her enclosure had been torn from its moorings. When they confronted her, she pointed to [...]

Deaf clubbers appreciate the 'smell' of music

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

A deaf club night is using scents vibrating dance floors and sign language dancers to help its patrons "translate the emotions" of music.

Lesson Plans: The Language of Respect

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.

Sign charity gets first premises

BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008

A Surrey-based charity which teaches a form of sign language moves into its first offices.

British Sign Language

EdCompBlog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008

I was looking for some video of people using British Sign Language for Sunday School and YouTube came up trumps. The first one I looked at was a chap signing to Eleanor Rigby , I think the children's favourite was the sign language singers (however, not sure if this is BSL - can anyone confirm') but my wife found this one today and it is now officially my favourite: I am really impressed by the way...

Miley Cyrus' Sweet 16: We Partied Like It Was 2008

Famecrawler (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

I took my two daughters to Miley Cyrus' Sweet 16 party at Disneyland last night. I'm deaf now because of all the screaming, but my girls told me in sign language that they had an awesome time. That Miley knows how to throw a party. Disney estimates that over 5,000 people attended the soiree, which cost $250 a ticket and featured a short concert by Miley and her dad Billy Ray. Celebrity guests included...

Did You Know?

JFActivist (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

...Leonardo Da Vinci, creator of the famous Mona Lisa painting had epilepsy'...Baseball hand signals used by umpires to signify balls, strikes, out and safe originate from Outfielder William Hoy's request that they use sign language because he was deaf and...

App Store Sales: WallpaperSearch, Imangi, iBrake, iDrive, BlackJack Multi-Hand, American Sign Language, Spanish 4

iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

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...)

Brave fight of a girl with half a brain

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

A SMALL girl has developed her own version of sign language and is even going to school despite surgery that cut out half her brain.

• Keeley puts mind into life - Courrier Mail
• Brave fight of the little girl with half a brain - News.com.au

Conference Online

Joel Dehlin (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

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 [...]

New General Conference Online Video Player

ldsWebguy (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

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 [...]

Gallaudet's New Aesthetic of Openness

Washington Post (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

Sidewalks wide enough to accommodate pedestrians using sign language. Rounded corners and strategically placed reflective glass so people who cannot hear can see who's coming and who's behind them. Glass elevators so passengers can communicate with outsiders in case of emergency.

Edward S. Klima, Sign Language Expert, Dies at 77

New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

Dr. Klima was an eminent linguist who was one of the first scholars to pay serious attention to sign languages.