By Jean F. Andrews A deaf person calls 911. Through a relay interpreter, she signs that her husband is beating her and she is afraid because he has pulled a knife. Now, she has locked herself in the back bedroom. Please send the police, she signs. Emotionally distraught, she sobs and hangs up. The relay
By BitcoDavid Yesterday’s New York Times contained an essay on Abreham Zemedagegehu – a homeless, Deaf, Ethiopian immigrant – who received an iPad from their Neediest Cases Fund, and uses it to communicate via Video Relay Service. For the past 100 years, The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund has provided direct assistance to children, families
By BitcoDavid I received the following e-mail the other day. Hello David I work for OnlineSpeechPathologyPrograms.net, a site that provides info on education and job opportunities for students in speech pathology and relevant fields. Since American Sign Language and other forms of signed communication are so useful for speech pathologists, we thought it would be
By BitcoDavid This comes to us from DeafNetwork.com. I hope some of our readers may be interested. Here’s the link, the text will be posted below. http://deafnetwork.com/wordpress/blog/2012/12/20/job-opportunity-executive-director-at-rocky-mountain-deaf-school/ Job Opportunity: Executive Director at Rocky Mountain Deaf School Employment Rocky Mountain Deaf School (RMDS) is a bilingual charter school located in the shadow of the beautiful Colorado
By BitcoDavid We received this message from a FaceBook follower who – for obvious reasons – asked that I don’t post their name. Okay so I’m going to be a prison guard myself (maximum security male prison if I get what I want) and am going to be learning ASL over the summer (I have
By Jean F. Andrews In reviewing confessions and interviews conducted in spoken and written English between the deaf suspect and the detective, judges and prosecutors have difficulty in understanding a deaf person’s linguistic competence. They just don’t get it. Even when the videotape recording is replayed, the judge and prosecutor will listen to the talking
By Jean F. Andrews Jean F. Andrews is a Reading Specialist and Professor of Deaf Studies/Deaf Education at Lamar University. Deaf suspects are asked routinely to sign the Miranda Warning Waiver affirming they waive their rights. What does this mean? For the police and detectives this means that the deaf person understands the six statements
I came home to find this posted on the DeafInPrison.com FaceBook page. http://webhost.bridgew.edu/atwerskyglasner/inclusion.htm Who I am: Dr. Aviva Twersky Glasner, Ph.D. is a Criminal Justice Researcher and the proud mother of a deaf son. My son goes to an ASL intensive school in Massachusetts, the Learning Center, and I have been learning
The principal at Horace Mann school thinks that it would be crueler to deny his students the pleasure of a Taylor Swift visit. According to the Boston Herald: Ford said that if Swift’s peeps put the kibosh on the concert, it would be “extremely short-sighted.” “We would have the concert beautifully translated into American Sign
Well, since I spent all weekend fixing server disasters, only to discover that they weren’t fixed, I thought I’d talk about two archaic medieval commodities that you may remember – if you search the darkest recesses of your mind. The U.S. Mail, and books. You remember books, right? They were like really long tweets only
