ASLTA 2017 = Elevate.
Silent Grapevine With the #ASLTA2017 (American Sign Language Teacher’s Conference) event underway it has been well twenty minutes pass six and it looks like the event will start off in the most traditional way within the Deaf Community: starting the event late and never on time. It is one of those traditions that has a long history […] The post ASLTA 2017 = Elevate. appeared fir...
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 3 hours ago

Let’s Listen 2017
At The Rim Let’s Listen is the first and largest gathering of its kind in the UK, bringing together leading figures from the City of London with prominent hearing industry specialists to better manage hearing in the workplace. UK hearing loss charity Hearing Link and the Master of the Worshipful Company of Feltmakers on behalf of the Feltmakers Charitable Foundation are hos...
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 5 hours ago

Where have I gone?
Campaigning for deaf children Well, as you can see, I haven’t blogged here for some time. Truth be, I’ve taken an extended break from blogging on my own personal blog. I’ve taken on various new hobbies and, more plausibly, have become a bit lazy. I half thought about closing this blog down completely but it still seems to get […]
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 6 hours ago

Thomas Cook staff communicate to deaf clients.
At The Rim Staff at Thomas Cook’s first Discovery store have learned sign language to communicate better with deaf and hard of hearing customers – and hope other branches will follow suit. Senior travel consultant Denise Hart and manager Peter Ryan at Thomas Cook’s Westfield branch in Stratford, east London, took a course, which was funded by the company.  Hart came up wi...
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 8 hours ago

Deaf and the Law
At The Rim A DEAF man facing trial on theft charges has lost a High Court challenge to being denied a separate communication assistant for legal consultations. Jonathan Sweeney issued proceedings against the Department for Justice over its refusal to provide a different Registered Intermediary (RI) at meetings with his defence team. But judges rejected claims that the decisio...
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 8 hours ago

The Town I Grew Up
The Last Hiccup In a quiet country corner in Southwest area in Washington State, the county fails to be confronted with a reality that there are people that are in denial. Their “Audist version of the American Dream.” The county that practices a series of hate crimes, literature, and speech and breaks the state and federal law of […]
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 9 hours ago

Halifax Deaf School: deaf experience teaser.
At The Rim Halifax Explosion - The Deaf Experience Teaser from NSCSD on Vimeo.
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 9 hours ago

10 best Deaf movies
At The Rim For me 'Love is never silent" was the best of them all, I didn't rate children of a lesser god.
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 9 hours ago

Michael Heuberger: Why I created a web form to send emails...
The Limping Chicken Have you ever seen a web contact form where you can ask in Sign Language right away and send that? […]
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 10 hours ago

ntouch VP2 Feature: Bluetooth Device Support
Silent Grapevine ntouch VP2 and Bluetooth keyboard? Champ. The post ntouch VP2 Feature: Bluetooth Device Support appeared first on silent grapevine.
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 11 hours ago

Why I sign
Silent Grapevine WhyISign Campaign 2016 Please forgive my painfully slow signing, but I was reading from notes so I wouldn’t forget anything 🙂 The post Why I sign appeared first on silent grapevine.
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 11 hours ago

#whyisign and NAD
Silent Grapevine ENGLISH TRANSCRIPT: #whyIsign campaign went viral on March 13-15th, which happened at great distance but almost coincidentally during the Early Hearing … The post #whyisign and NAD appeared first on silent grapevine.
Thu, Jun 29 2017 · 11 hours ago

ASL Stew
Captioned Web TV Coming from Rochester, NY, is ASL Stew, with Jenna and Jill. Everything related to deafness, including history, and more, is covered. Nothing is left out.https://www.youtube.com/user/jstewardson2signs
Wed, Jun 28 2017 · 15 hours ago

Forgotten Survivors: Deaf Children Who Experienced Sexual...
The Last Hiccup
Wed, Jun 28 2017 · 16 hours ago

Go See: A celebration of Deaf poetry at Ledbury Poetry...
The Limping Chicken This is a sponsored post. Ledbury Poetry Festival takes place from Friday 30 June – Sunday 9 July 2017 and […]
Wed, Jun 28 2017 · 23 hours ago

Go See: Captioned performances at the National Theatre!
The Limping Chicken The National Theatre is a supporter of this site. Common by DC Moore An epic tale of lost land. Headlong’s […]
Wed, Jun 28 2017

App translates sign to speech and vice versa....
At The Rim A Brazilian professor has created an Android app capable of translating sign language to speech and vice versa. Using inbuilt sensors in the smartphone, algorithms and artificial intelligence, the app can help the hard of hearing better communicate. There are approximately 10 million Brazilians with hearing deficiencies, half of whom are entirely deaf. Many of them...
Wed, Jun 28 2017

“The best family environment that I could have ever...
The Limping Chicken Susan Laycock is the eldest of Bill and Peggy Dixon’s five children. Both Bill and Peggy were profoundly deaf.  Of […]
Wed, Jun 28 2017

Moving on up
The Fabulous Running Mommy Hi guys, so this blog just does not fit who I am anymore, and hasn't for a very long time. I miss her, the mom of 2 babies running along like a turtle and binge watching Smallville in our small condo, spending my abundance of free time with my mom's group homies or crying over the natural growing pains of my young marriage. The summer I lost my vision, everything chan...
Wed, Jun 28 2017

Research Findings on Cochlear Implant electrodes
Deaf News Today New research suggests some best practices for cochlear implant surgery. The main finding: Cochlear implants that have electrodes without wires perform better than those with wires because they cause injury inside the inner ear. You can read the details of the study in the online edition of The Laryngoscope here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
Tue, Jun 27 2017

RIT/NTID names Gary Behm interim associate VP for academic...
NTID News RIT/NTID names Gary Behm interim associate VP for academic affairs. An alumnus of the college, Behm worked for IBM before joining the NTID faculty.
Tue, Jun 27 2017

NDSS is at the Table, But What Are They Saying?
doozeedad The post NDSS is at the Table, But What Are They Saying? appeared first on Meriah Nichols.
Tue, Jun 27 2017

Deaf sexual assault survivor graduates with help from...
Deaf News Today image from Chicago Tribune video Chicago sheriff's investigators not only sought the person who raped a deaf teen three years ago, they stood by her until she recently graduated from high school. One of them said, "We went into this thinking here is a victim and let's try to solve her case and it just turned into ... seeing her as a goddaughter." The Chicago Tribune ...
Tue, Jun 27 2017

Lottery funding to transform historic sites across South...
The Limping Chicken The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has just awarded a grant of £527,000 to the Heritage Ability scheme which involves a […]
Tue, Jun 27 2017

TextHear
At The Rim A new type of assistance. Speech To Text Technologies for the Everyday of Hearing Impaired
Tue, Jun 27 2017