Deaf Man's Neighbourhood Learns Sign Language

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Deaf Man's Neighbourhood Learns Sign Language

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO [CC] - Entire neighbourhood learns sign language so they can talk to Deaf man and it moves him to tears.



This video shows the heartwarming moment a Deaf man realised an entire neighbourhood has learned sign language just for him.



Muharrem is shown wandering through his neighbourhood with his sister Ozlem meeting strangers who surprise him with their communication skills.



In the footage, filmed in Instanbul, Turkey, the siblings set out for for what Muharrem thinks is just going to be a normal day. But when they come across a man in a local shop who unexpectedly greets him with sign language, he knows the day is going to be anything but ordinary.

In one scene Muharrem bumps into a woman who apologises to him in sign language, and when they get into a cab, the driver signs "hello" to them. They are then dropped off in a public square where a group of neighbours greet the pair in sign language. Eventually Muharrem is moved to tears at the number of people willing and able to communicate with him.



The video was filmed using secret cameras for an advert organised by Samsung to promote its video call centre for the hearing impaired. The firm teamed up with an ad agency and spent a month setting up cameras around his neighborhood. SOURCE

DEAF CAN !!!

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

DEAF CAN !!!

VIDEO: [CC] - Deaf Can! Educate hearing people how to communicating with Deaf people.



Talking about Deafness, Deaf Life, Advocate and Do's and Don'ts in certain situations. Here is a video of questions hearing person get due to being Deaf.



Hope you learn a few new things and think twice when communicating with a Deaf and Hard of Hearing person.



We are capable of doing anything/everything like a hearing person can, we just can't hear. Some of the questions are quite funny though, not going to lie.

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How To Communication With Deaf People

Thursday, May 2, 2013

How To Communication With Deaf People

VIDEO [CC] - Educate the hearing people how to communication with Deaf and Hard of Hearing people.



Kati Roman's new video on YouTube to educate the hearing people how to connect / talk with deaf and hard of hearing people. Kati Roman, who is a hard of hearing person, which is issuing a call to action, inviting community to be part of the solution to explain why she is doing a good cause, to educating and awareness about the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people.

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Educating Hearing People About The Deaf World

Monday, April 22, 2013

Educating Hearing People About The Deaf World

VIDEO [CC] - Haley Sadler: Educating hearing people about the Deaf world.



Haley's new video on YouTube to educate the hearing people about the Deaf world. Haley Sadler, who is a hard of hearing person, which is issuing a call to action, inviting community to be part of the solution to explain why she is doing a good cause, to educating and awareness about the Deaf world.

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Do We Need Specialized Hardware For The Deaf ?

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Do We Need Specialized Hardware For The Deaf ?

VIDEO: Do we need specialized hardware for the Deaf? Companies that once made specialized hardware may soon be relegated to software and services.



A company called Purple Communications this week unveiled a product called SmartVP. It’s a videophone with applications and features to help Deaf people communicate. Purple says it’s the first videophone to feature “true HD quality.”



How do Deaf people use the telephone? In the past, most used a typing system called TTY. Paging devices soon followed; the term became so fixed that the Deaf community is said to still call all wireless devices, including iPhones, “pagers.”

But the age of the video call has changed all that. Now, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing routinely communicate by simply using sign language over a video call. When a Deaf person wants to communicate with a hearing person, there are “relay services,” involving live translators proficient in sign language.



One smart thing Purple’s doing is pursuing what they call a “five-screen strategy.” What this means is that their customers can use Purple’s relay service on PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or TV. Here’s a YouTube video pitching SmartVP. Refreshingly, it’s not full of over-the-top music, like the majority of tech promotional fare out there. ...READ MORE: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513336/do-we-need-specialized-hardware-for-the-deaf/



Sign up for more information: http://www.purple.us/SmartVP. Are you ready for a smarter way to make calls? Make the Smart Choice. SmartVP.

Structural Violence: Deaf Education Box

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Structural Violence: Deaf Education Box

VIDEO [ASL] - Question: Why are our Deaf students across the nation underperforming in academics? We give them a wide array of 'communication options' - speech therapy, hearing-aids, cochlear implants, sim-com, cued speech, total communication, signed-exact-English/PSE interpreters, note-taking services - they don't need their American Sign Language with our "least restrictive environment."

Answer: "One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding."

― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.



Thought: We wanted to 'communicate' with our Deaf child in spoken English -- even if only slightly -- so we decided to forbid her use of sign language, even though it is the only natural, robust, and fully accessible language for a Deaf child.



Rebuttal: "Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence; ... to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects."

― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.



Question: What can I do? I'm just a teacher.

Answer: "The educator has the duty of not being neutral."

― Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change.



"Language For All" is a grassroots marketing campaign to help raise awareness and funds for the benefit of Texas School for the Deaf Foundation.



We, the people of Texas, are on the verge of failing a critical part of our community. State budget cuts are threatening access to language for Deaf children, and it is our shared responsibility to make sure they retain this fundamental right. Unite with the Texas School for the Deaf as we transform lives through our language and education services. Join us in our relentless crusade to fight for Language for All.



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Facebook Opens Worlds For The Deaf

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Facebook Opens Worlds For The Deaf

VIDEO [CC] - One billion people use Facebook around the world. Its reach is undisputed and unparalleled, but its impact on one specific community has opened up doors to a new world for the Deaf.



Christina Teani, 34, of South San Francisco is a teacher for special needs students. She understands putting in that extra bit of effort because she was born with what she calls “an invisible disability” unable to hear without wearing a hearing aid.

“You can often feel like that sometimes you are not good enough, you don’t feel like you’re part of a group,” Teani explained. “Human relationships are all about intimacy, getting to know people, feeling like you belong in a group and if you’re not able to connect, you emotionally feel left out.”



But her life has changed, much like it has for her Deaf friend, Sarah McBride of Palo Alto.



“With Facebook, I’m able to communicate with my friends through chat,” she said.



These women say the social media site has opened up a whole new world to them, offering up not only quick chats with friends, but the ability to share memories through pictures and videos especially satisfying for them because it’s one of the first times they’ve been able to communicate the same way the hearing community does.



So when the opportunity came up to visit the company that made it happen, they didn’t hesitate. Together with friends, they took tour of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park to celebrate the changes they’ve experienced in their lives.



“That’s what I like about Facebook," Teani said. "We’re all on the same playing field we haven’t had before.” ...Read more: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Facebook-IOpens-New-World-For-Deaf-186194282.html

Technology Helps Deaf Students At Gallaudet

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Technology Helps Deaf Students At Gallaudet

Technology Helps Deaf Students at Gallaudet University.



Gallaudet University in Washington is the world's only university with programs designed for Deaf students and those who are hard-of-hearing. But hearing disorders do not keep students from learning because of the university's heavy use of technology.



Students use interactive technologies in and out of the classroom, technologies such as webcam interactions on Skype. More than 90 percent of Gallaudet's classes use some form of online communication. Professor Gene Mirus says technology is important in the learning process. "So there are, you know, televisions and webcams and things like that. Students are able to record themselves doing projects in sign language, and do that at home. We use a lot of computer technologies, and webcams and things like that."



Sonam Jain, a student from Sri Lanka, says his years at Gallaudet have offered experiences different from his childhood. "Sri Lanka has states. And they don't have one standardized sign language. So, in the United States, for example, there are signs for almost everything that you would ever want to talk about.



In Sri Lanka, there isn't. And so there are many things you find it very difficult to talk about in Sri Lanka." Another student says Gallaudet has helped him with his communication skills, especially with ASL - American Sign Language.



"When I grew up, I was signing in a way that was more English-like. Here at Gallaudet, I sign more like I sign in ASL - more visual and the communication is much easier, and the social life is wonderful here." That increased ability to communicate helps many students. "A lot of networking and reaching out to people and I've learned from - I've had role models that I've learned from here.



They provide workshops, there are a lot of sporting activities, intramural events that I've been involved with." "Most students increase their self-confidence, and improve their communication abilities and they leave Gallaudet ready to face the world." I'm Jeri Watson. SOURCE



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Medical Research: Dual Adaptation in Deaf Brains

Medical Research: Dual Adaptation In Deaf Brains

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Medical Research: Dual Adaptation In Deaf Brains

The brains of people who cannot hear adapt to process vision-based language, in addition to brain changes associated with the loss of auditory input.

The brains of Deaf people reorganize not only to compensate for the loss of hearing, but also to process language from visual stimuli sign language, according to a study published today (February 12) in Nature Communications. Despite this reorganization for interpreting visual language, however, language processing is still completed in the same brain region.



“The new paper really dissected the difference between hand movements being a visual stimulus, and cognitive components of language,” said Alex Meredith, a neurobiologist at Virginia Commonwealth University, who was not involved in the study.



The brain devotes different areas to interpreting various sensory stimuli, such as visual or auditory. When one sense is lost, the brain compensates by adapting to other stimuli, explained study author Velia Cardin of University College London and Linköping University in Sweden. In Deaf people, for example, “the part of the brain that before was doing audition adapts to be doing something else, which is vision and somatosensation,” she said. However, Deaf humans “don’t just have sensory deprivation,” she added they also have to learn to process a visual, rather than oral, language.



To untangle brain changes due to loss of auditory input from adaptations prompted by vision-based language, the researchers used functional MRI to look at brain activation in three groups of people: Deaf people who communicate through sign language, Deaf people who read lips but don’t understand sign language, and hearing people with no sign language experience.



The researchers showed the three groups videos of sign language and videos that held no linguistic content. The signing videos were designed to allow Cardin’s team to pinpoint which areas had reorganized to process vision-based language, as these areas would only activate in Deaf signers. In contrast, the language-free videos would allow the researchers to identify areas in Deaf brains that had adapted to the loss of auditory input, as these brain areas would activate in both Deaf groups, but not in the brains of hearing volunteers. ... Read more: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34363/title/Dual-Adaptation-in-Deaf-Brains/