VIDEO: English Subtitles - A documentary film "The Pigeonhole Man" - De Hokjesman, afl. De Doven.
Very interesting television documentary about the Dutch Deaf people. This episode of the Hokjesman moves in the Deaf community in Netherlands.
Many Deaf people he meets consider the word Deaf as an honorary title and so happy to see that it is written with a capital D. What is so cherished Deaf Culture exactly? And how do the Deaf on that group of people where they need to relate to it so often: the hearing? Watch this documentary to understand about being Deaf.
Deaf News: Forbes.com - 4 Game-Changing Technologies For The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are more than 360 million people worldwide with a disabling hearing loss, including 32 million children and one-third of people over 65 years of age. Hearing loss may result from genetic causes, complications at birth, certain infectious diseases, chronic ear infections, the use of particular drugs, exposure to excessive noise and aging.
One of the main impacts of hearing loss is on the individual’s ability to communicate with others, since spoken language development is often delayed in children with deafness. Limited access to services and exclusion from communication can have a significant impact on everyday life, causing feelings of loneliness, isolation and frustration, particularly among older people with hearing loss.
Recent advances in technology have the potential to improve the quality of life for those who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Here’s a look at four products in this space that caught our attention.
MotionSavvy UNI: MotionSavvy, founded by a team of students from Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, announced “the world’s first two-way communication software for the Deaf.” UNI translates American Sign Language (ASL) into speech, and speech into text. It utilizes a special camera to track the location of both hands and all ten fingers. Graphic representations of the hands provide live feedback to make sure gestures are being captured correctly. The software’s dictionary can be expanded with customized signs added by the user. There’s also an option to upload those signs to the Internet, to share with others. The more an individual uses the system, the more accurate and tailored it becomes. To facilitate the Hearing-to-Deaf half of the communication, the package also includes Dragon Nuance Pro, one of the leading pieces of voice recognition software. Interested customers will have to wait for MotionSavvy UNI, but not long.
VIDEO: As part of a Deaf Studies class, they went around campus to educate students about the benefits of visual manual education.
Maddie D posted on YouTube and sharing the community about the research has proven that visual demonstration and hands-on learning are much more effective in learning, memory, and abstract thinking. This concept of visual manual education is considered a Deaf Gain, proving that being Deaf can be positive and beneficial.
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VIDEO [CC] - Public education and awareness: Why bed bugs are making a comeback in the United States and United Kingdom.
These tiny parasites, better known as bedbugs, have spread through Los Angeles, New York and London over the past 60 years, Americans and Britishers thought they had vanquished bed bugs forever. They were wrong.
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Bed bugs have been an insanity-inducing staple of American life ever since the Mayflower. In 1926, infestations in hotels and apartments were so common that experts couldn't recall a time when they weren't a problem. People absolutely hated being bitten in the night by these tenacious bloodsuckers, but the bugs were seemingly impossible to eradicate.
Then, in 1939, a Swiss chemist named Paul Hermann Muller discovered the pesticide DDT, which proved staggeringly effective at killing insects. And, for decades thereafter, DDT and other chemical pesticides helped keep America's homes and hotels bed bug free.
But it didn't last. Since 2000, a new strain of pesticide-resistant bed bugs has been popping up all around the nation in 2009, there were 10,000 reported complaints in New York City alone. Apartment dwellers were waking up with mysterious bites and rashes on their skin and finding peppery flakes around their mattresses (bed bug poop). People couldn’t rid themselves of bed bugs no matter how often they did laundry or threw out their mattresses. Once the bugs invaded, it seemed, almost nothing can stop them.
The bed bug invasion is a skin-crawling story recounted in Brooke Borel’s riveting new book, Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedroom and Took Over the World (the book was partially funded by the Alfred Sloan Foundation). I called Borel, a science journalist, to hear more about how bed bugs made a comeback, why they’re so tenacious, and whether we might ever get rid of them again.
Brad Plumer: I’d half assumed bed bugs were a very recent phenomenon, so it was fascinating to see that even the ancient Egyptians were trying to cast spells to ward them off.
Brooke Borel: Yeah, one thing that really struck me was the similarities throughout history. When the bed bug resurgence happened in the last 15 years, we had all these newspaper articles saying, oh my god, they’re in the movie theaters, there in this place, in that place. But when I went back and read some of the historical material, that’s always been the case.
You can go back and read descriptions of these old beds with jars around the legs that contained paraffin to ward off bed bugs. And that’s just an old school version of these little traps you can buy today to put under your bed and capture the bugs. It’s just an old story that’s been repeating itself forever.
BP: Now, there was this 60-year period after World War II where we’d vanquished bed bugs. How did that happen?
VIDEO [CC] - Meet Agatha Chizek, the oldest Deaf woman in the United States or World?!
Very special interview with a wonderful amazing lady in American Sign Language by Shelly Hansen. Agatha Chizek share stories including pictures about her life experiences over the years.
Agatha Chizek has become the oldest Deaf to have ever lived after reaching the grand old age of 108. She born in Germany in 1907, is the oldest living Deaf woman in the United States. Please share with others! Thanks!
VIDEO [CC/Signed] - Deaffriendly.com - You have choices, make the right one! Where members of the Deaf, and Deaf-Blind community rate and review businesses based on Deaf-Friendliness.
Deaffriendly.com is the new face of crowd sourcing: Bringing awareness to Deaf-Friendly businesses, and corrective feedback to Deaf-Challenged businesses. Reviewers fit a number of categories: Deaf, Deaf-Blind, Hard of Hearing, friends/family of the Deaf and those with a special interest in creating a Deaf-Friendly world.
Our philosophy is simple: Businesses are as plentiful as oxygen, so why not make sure you have plenty of awesome choices? During your daily activities (shopping, banking, eating out), you’re either going to come across a Deaf-Friendly business or you’re not. Sharing your insight is what slowly improves both your experience as a consumer and the businesses customer service. Unlike mystery shopping, as a Deaf consumer, you make “Deaf Reviews” everyday of your life.
Now, you can share your experiences on a much-needed public #deaffriendly platform. We invite you to join us on our mission to create a Deaf-Friendly world. By writing consumer reviews, we can increase Deaf-Friendliness in millions of businesses across the nation. Visit us for more details - http://deaffriendly.com
VIDEO: Signed - Let's break the record and bring in thousands of Deaf people! Free admission to world largest Deaf events by DeafNation in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The DeafNation World Expo is back, and this time it’s bigger and better than ever! The largest event for the Deaf on the planet is returning to Las Vegas in 2016 for another successful show.
More than 40,000 people came in 2010 & 2012, and the Paris Las Vegas is the perfect venue to break the attendance record with an even larger crowd in 2016!
Kevin Iombie, a Deaf vlogger who enjoys doing random videos to remember by years later. Love to travel, also love take photos. He never went to Deaf Expo in his life and there is many people who would love to meet him in person. He delight would love to meet them in the sin city as well.
He think it is time to break his virginity with DeafNation Expo. So let's break the record and bring in thousands of Deaf/HoH people to attend to DeafNation World Expo in Las Vegas at Paris Hotel! Source
VIDEO [CC/Signed] - #YourGlideStory: Next generation video messaging in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community.
#YourGlideStory - Over the past few months, you've let us know that Glide is the best way to communicate visually, and we're extremely grateful to all of our users in the Deaf/HoH community for their continued support.
Glide is a video messenger that allows you to send and receive video messages that can be seen live (as you're recording) or later (like a text message).
There are already loads of great video chat apps out there. We're not trying to replace them, we are giving people a more convenient way to keep in touch through video that doesn't need scheduling. Traditional video chat requires you and your friends to be online at the same time, which isn't always possible. The great thing about Glide is that you can send or watch a message whenever you want, regardless of whether your friends are online.
Glide is a private messaging service. Only friends in the chat you send a message to will see it. You and your friends can also share messages from Glide to social networks and friends outside the app. Sending messages to Glide users anywhere in the world is 100% free.
VIDEO [CC] - The 90 minute production for PBS: History "Through Deaf Eyes" will take a look at Deaf culture from the 19th century to the present in the United States of America.
Through Deaf Eyes is a two-hour HDTV documentary for PBS exploring nearly 200 years of Deaf life in America. The film presents the shared experiences of American history family life, education, work, and community connections from the perspective of Deaf citizens.
Interviews include community leaders, historians, and Deaf Americans with diverse views on language use, technology and identity. Bringing a Deaf cinematic lens to the film are six artistic works by Deaf media artists and filmmakers.
Poignant, sometimes humorous, these films draw on the media artists' own lives and are woven throughout the documentary. But the core of the film remains the larger story of Deaf life in America - a story of conflicts, prejudice and affirmation that reaches the heart of what it means to be human.
Through Deaf Eyes does not approach the topic of deaf history from the perspective of sentimentality or overcoming, nor does it deny the physical reality of being deaf.
The documentary takes a straight-forward look at life for people who are part of the cultural-linguistic group who use American Sign Language and often define themselves as "Deaf" with a capital, and cultural, "D" and deaf people who, for a variety of reasons, do not identify with the Deaf cultural community.
The history often shows that intersections between deaf and Deaf people are many and that oppression and discrimination are common experiences. Source
VIDEO [Signed] - DeafRebel.com: A free online videos and blogs a social networking for the sign language community.
Deaf Rebel - A rebel is a person who stands up for their own personal opinions despite what anyone else says. A true rebel stands up for what they believe is right, people who use sign language are empowered to make articles and videos in a blog that allow create the hottest discussions through video/text comments that keep entertainers and the entertained.
Deaf Rebel is strive for diversity and free of speech that help people feel comfortable to be themselves. People who came from different race, place, and type of the group are welcome. Sign up have an account? SIGN UP NOW
Discover and meet friendly people just like you. Connect with your friends!
Exclusive: How do you sign "new" words? The Deaf community works as a network, collectively brainstorming new sign language term over the web, until dominant emerge.
Hope&Fears - As language evolves, the powers that regulate language tend to shift. Just look at the Oxford English Dictionary, who added terms like “duck face,” “lolcat,” and “hawt” to their prestigious lexicon this past December. For the English-speaking world, these additions are anywhere from ridiculous to annoying but at the end of the day, the terms are accepted and agreed upon.
But how do these new, internet-laden turns of phrase enter the sign language community? Was there a way of expressing “selfie” in ASL, was there a sign for “photobomb?” Our simplistic question turned into a larger conversation about the nature of communication.
We turned to Bill Vicars, the president and owner of an organization called Lifeprint, a company who educates through “technology-enhanced delivery of ASL Instruction, excursion-based instruction (trips to amusement parks), and extended-immersion-based program coordination (intense two-week residencies).”
Vicars himself is Deaf/HH, which means he is hard of hearing and culturally Deaf as he has immersed himself in the Deaf community. “In addition to my co workers, the majority of my friends are Deaf… my wife is Deaf,” Vicars explains. (Capitalizing ‘Deaf’ refers to the Deaf community, as noted by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries, in Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture (1988), “We use the lowercase deaf when referring to the audiological condition of not hearing, and the uppercase Deaf when referring to a particular group of deaf people who share a language - American Sign Language (ASL) - and a culture.”)
The video producer by Joshua Beckman also known as vlogger posted on YouTube social networking for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community. This vlog in ASL storytelling of the Deaf Schools and education the community.
You care about Deaf schools right? Well I too, care about the Deaf schools.
Did you know that many of those schools endure hardship? What struggles are there, you might ask? Lack of moral support from the government, community, staff, administration, teachers, parents. Support is naught and hard to find. There are funding constraints as well.
Now you are watching me in disbelief. Worrying, disappointed; feeling angry, frustrated, heart-wrenched. Me too, I am in the exact same boat as you are.
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What can the Deaf community do to help? There is a solution… but it is not an imminent fix. They are as following:
1) All Deaf schools must have at least 75% Deaf people working there. What I meant by 75% is, for instance: chefs, landscape maintenance workers, custodians, teachers, education assistants, staff, support staff, administration et cetera. All positions available must be at least 75% employed by Deaf people.
With that being said, the system itself must change first. How? We, the Deaf people take initiative with the due process.
2) The names of the Deaf schools themselves must change.
It all boils down to the word ‘for’ inside the name of the school. It bears a negative connotation. Essentially it means a population for you [hearing people] to serve, and to provide support. The word ‘for’ is archaic. Why don't we use Deaf schools instead? More positive. That term is a direct reflection of the Deaf community
We decide. We control. We govern and modify policies accordingly. Not them, hearing people. The government workers must no longer be in such position with power. Again, we decide. Doing so, we all must collaborate together, collectively.
VIDEO [ASL/CC] - 1500 Deaf Domestic Violence Calls Answered... How Many Missed?
DHN - Take a look at who is behind #WhoWillAnswer and the amazing work it is doing for Deaf domestic violence victims across the country in the United States of America.
Help in the national campaign to fund 24/7 access to domestic violence services in American Sign Language.
But what about calls that occur after 5pm and on weekends when the Deaf advocates are not available to receive calls due to lack of funding?
Instead, calls are routed to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, where hearing advocates answer using interpreters after hours. We need fully trained Deaf advocates that can answer using American Sign Language any time they are needed. Who do we want to answer the call? Help us expand our program so Deaf Advocates are able to answer the call, 24/7.
VIDEO [CC] - ‘Man Hears For The First Time’ Cochlear implant video is not what you expect!
The original video of ‘Man Hears For The First Time’ takes place in a doctor's office and shows Deaf man's reaction at the precise moment a lab technician turns on the cochlear implant device. He's shocked by all the new sounds!
The Internet is peppered with countless emotional and the wildly popular videos of hearing loss individuals who, after receiving cochlear implants, was able to hear for the first time. But it quickly diverges into some seriously dark humor. The video was hysterical! This is probably funny to most Deaf community!
VIDEO: Hotel sets trend by employing highest number of Deaf people in Cape Town, South Africa.
A new Cape Town hotel has been making headlines for all the right reasons lately by exposing guests to the world and life of Deaf people.
The Newlands based Park Inn hotel has a staff compliment where 30% of the employees are completely or partially Deaf. It's believed the hotel has the highest compliment of Deaf employees in the world.
From the outside it paints the picture of a modest hotel, but guests are pleasantly surprised when they are welcomed in sign language. Employees in many of the departments are Deaf but are not hampered by their disability when dealing with clients.
"Communication with guests is very important for some of us. It's very difficult without hearing aid so we try to do written communication, but for me I have hearing aid and I also train myself to try and speak clearly so to greet them and when guests see my I am Deaf badge, guests are very accommodating and their attitudes gradually change.
Guests at the hotel have praised their work. "My experience is absolutely wonderful and this hotel is a role model of employment equity. They are very good at lip reading," says hotel guest, Cheryl Harper.
Deaf SA has urged the importance of having Deaf community gain access to the working environment. "As you know the South Africa unemployment rate is so high especially in the Deaf community. Access to employment for Deaf people is so important,” says Bruno Druchen from Deaf SA.
The hotel opened its doors in December and has a full time sign language interpreter on site. Cape Town hotel sets trend by employing highest number of Deaf people. SOURCE
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VIDEO: [ASL/CC] - Support your local Deaf Club from Austin, Texas.
Deaf Clubs are an important part of preserving our Deaf culture and heritage. The Austin Association of the Deaf is one of the few remaining Deaf-Owned clubs in the country, and we must do our part to preserve this important and culturally rich part of our community.
Austin Association of the Deaf’s (est. 1946) purpose is to provide fellowship, educational, recreational, cultural opportunities, inclusive communication and to work in harmony with any organization(s) and/or business(es) to develop the business opportunities for the Association.
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We are a place where the Deaf community in Austin, Texas can socialize and network within our community. We are open during Friday and Saturday nights. Come and enjoy good company, good drinks, and a place where you can be yourself.
Our club has a full-sized bar, an outdoor patio and yard, and plenty of games and activities. Our club also can be rented out as a venue by either private individuals or by our affiliate organizations. https://austindeafclub.org/
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This footage of the Deaf pupils at school is disturbing and sexist.
A person, who was on vacation in Cuba and videotaped the young Deaf pupils learning a salsa choreography in school of Sancti Spiritus.
The footage shows how much skin girls around the country of Cuba are allowed to bare? Some individuals understands in the "salsa" culture that influences from Latin America, particularly Cuba and Puerto Rico. However, this dancing lessons suppose be at the private dance studio, but publicly at Deaf school?
Deaf vlogosphere consistently find disgusting and sparked a chorus of outrage after the footage of young girls wears too sexy clothing which is an inappropriate at the public of Deaf school... Do you find an inappropriate of this footage? You decide...
This topic must be one of the most difficult for Deaf school administrators, often caught between a rock and a hard place with students, parents, their personal beliefs, traditions and concerns about student safety and performance in Cuba.
There are many ways to consider the usefulness, purpose, intent and effects of dress codes. If school communities are genuinely worried about girls and boys then they need to examine the stereotypes that permeate their own policies around the country of Cuba.
Most of the United States of America population including straights and LGBT will not accept or allowed anyone taking advantage of animals or underage. They'll go to prison. The real argument is consent is required. Can animals consent to marriage? NO!
Can underage consent to marriage? Of course not! The parents of underage will not allowed it. They also talked about LGBT not be able to have children and they will be the end of their generations. Not really. It is not that LGBT don't know about it if they realized they're gay and have relationship with their lovers. They knew that when they have relationship with their lovers. They can adopt or have someone carry their babies.
Some lesbians like the straight females go to sperm bank to pick a donor and they can have babies. It's not the end of their generation .
The vloggers' arguement have flaws. It's senseless since all of them are anti-LGBT just like what some conservative Republicans talked about. It's plain stupid!
Deaf community concerns and responses has reacted to a video showing, #comments
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VIDEO [CC] - Philips Innovation Experience - Convo Lights app empowers Deaf community through Philips Hue.
The Convo Lights app developed for Philips Hue, the connected lighting system for homes, uses light to notify Deaf and Hard of Hearing people of phone calls and other audible signals that they could normally miss. The app from Convo, a Deaf-Owned and operated company providing video phone and translation services to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, allows users to create personalized ringtones of light to identify incoming callers, and adjust the brightness in a room to make sign language easier to see onscreen.
Convo demonstrates its innovative app (Convo Lights) that uses the connected lighting technology of Philips Hue to transform the lives of Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. Featuring Wayne Betts Jr. One of the founders for Convo Communications. Direct all creative aspects of the company’s communications: videos, the website, tradeshow materials, marketing collaterals, et cetera. Manage branding and the life cycle of all marketing campaigns. Serve as the face of the company in corporate and informational videos.
Want Convo Lights to illuminate your home? Order Convo Philips Hue Lights starter kit via Amazon or Apple today!
