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As personal technology explodes, deaf and blind people feel left ... - Austin American-Statesman

Web technologies and mobile devices have created many new ways for blind and deaf consumers to find information and connect with friends. ...
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/06/23/0623techaccess.html

News From You 6/19/2008

Happy happy Friday! It's another edition of News From You. If you're new to these parts, News From You is an ongoing series best described as an eclection of news, the weird, the arcane and the downright useless of interest to F-I infovores. We've got a
http://www.fashion-incubator.com/mt/archives/news_from_you_6192008.html

Viable and Sign Shares Team Up to Provide Video Relay Services PRWeb via Yahoo! News

Video relay call center to be established in Houston will benefit deaf and hard of hearing people nationwide.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20080626/bs_prweb/prweb1048684_4

Sign language via video handsets.

The researchers are talking to mobile firms about how to get the technology in to the hands of deaf people.
http://www.techfeed.info/files/category-7.html

YouTube - Watching Two Worlds Collide - Deaf Technology ...

Watching Two Worlds Collide - deaf technology ruined Pizza ...1 min 28 sec -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVW4wtPXU9Y

About Stone Deaf Pilots STONE DEAF PILOTS - the deaf technology blog ...

Stone deaf Pilots is the deaf tech blog. It is written by Kathryn Hill and covers deaf technology, assistive technology, and accessibility issues faced by the deaf and hard of ...
http://www.stonedeafpilots.com/?page_id=21

RNID.org.uk

The largest charity representing deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. Information about the organisation, and its services, including campaigning, information, training courses and consultancy, ...
http://www.rnid.org.uk/

Digital access denied - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Web technologies and mobile devices have created many new ways for blind and deaf consumers to find information and connect with friends. ...
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080623/FEAT/806230361

Consensus: A group vision statement movie

Consensus: A group vision statement movie I??ve had a lot of fun working with The Singer??s Gym, a San Francisco based group of musicians and voice coaches who are dedicated to inspired, connected singing. They work with professional and non-profes
http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/business-communication/consensus-a-group-vision-statement-movie/

Ear Foundation - International Meetings Held In Nottingham Medical News Today

Three exciting events are taking place in Nottingham this week, all organised by The Ear Foundation, a Nottingham charity which supports profoundly deaf children, young people and adults who can now hear with their cochlear implants.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113015.php

New technology aids militants: Canada's spy boss - Yahoo! News

Western intelligence agencies "increasingly risk going deaf and blind" in the fight against terror because they find it hard to keep up with rapidly advancing technology, the head of Canada's spy service said on Friday. Jim Judd, director of the
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061027/wl_canada_nm/canada_security_canada_terror_col_1

Online NewsHour: Technology and Deaf Culture -- February 19, 2001

DOUG CRAIG: It&39s phenomenal, what technology can do. And to this day, when I tell people who find out that Dylan is deaf what we&39ve done, they&39re just, ...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/jan-june01/deaf_advances.html

Deaf Products & Technologies - AllDeaf.com

Deaf Products & Technologies - Discussions on deaf pager, relay service, video phone, TTY, vibrating clock, amplified phone, etc. No Advertising ... Discussions on cell phones and ...
http://www.alldeaf.com/deaf-products-technologies/

Technology Access Program

The technology Access Program TAP conducts research related to communication technologies and services, with the goal of producing knowledge useful to industry, government, and deaf and hard of ...
http://tap.gallaudet.edu/

Scandal in the Pharmaceutical World - Chemie.de press release

They are liable to Nogdan for tens of billions of dollars 4B per year over 11 years. Novartis has remained deaf to all approaches.
http://www.chemie.de/news/e/83845/

Science Debate Needs To Be Reframed, Says Former White House Tech Adviser

Threat Level caught up with Mike Nelson, a visiting professor of internet studies at Georgetown University on Tuesday for a few quick questions about science and technology policy. Nelson was attending the two-day Personal Democracy Forum in New York Cit
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/science-debate.html

National Technical Institute for Deaf: 40 years Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

More than 700 alumni this weekend celebrates the 40th anniversary of NTID, which opened on Sept. 15, 1968.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080627/NEWS01/806270348

Top 10 Worst Singers Ever

The history of frothy pop is littered with tone deaf wannabes who've made it big thanks to the wonders of pitch correction technology.
http://www.virginmedia.com/music/pictures/toptens/worst-singers-ever.php?ssid=1

Evolution in Deaf Technology ASL VLOG lenois.com

Apr 10, 2008 ... jon.. yup. we are blessed with such technology but i do think we??re way too b ehind still. deaf swedish knows what he s talking about. ...
http://lenois.com/?p=108

Deaf Linx

Visit deaf Linx to find information about deaf culture, meeting the deaf Community, technology, sign language, interpreting, education, information for parents, ...
http://www.deaflinx.com/

DeafMall - Deaf-owned Businesses and Deaf Related Products and ...

Deaf Mall - Deaf-owned and Deaf-related businesses selling deaf technology, deaf education, deaf novelties, deaf books, deaf videos, sign language videos, sign language books, deaf information, deaf ...
http://www.deafmall.net/

Re-discovering sound - Anniston Star subscription

The longer someone is deaf, the longer the journey toward understanding the sounds the rest of the world takes for granted. The wail of a train whistle on ...
http://www.annistonstar.com/lifestyle/2008/as-family-0629-ltutor-8f28r3059.htm

Plan Seeks More Access for Disabled

New York Times By ROBERT PEAR Published: June 16, 2008 WASHINGTON ?? The Bush administration is about to propose far-reaching new rules that would give people with disabilities greater access to tens of thousands of courtrooms, swimming pools, golf
http://peidisabilityalert.blogspot.com/2008/06/plan-seeks-more-access-for-disabled.html

Researchers make noises of pre-Columbian society Las Vegas Sun

Sun, Jun 29, 2008 5:42 p.m. Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jun/29/researchers-make-noises-of-pre-columbian-society/

Gates Says Technology Will One Day Allow Computer Implants -- But Hardwirin

Technological advances will one day allow computers to be implanted in the human body -- and could help the blind see and the deaf hear -- Bill Gates said Friday. But the Microsoft chairman says he's not ready to be hardwired.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/ap/ap_070105.asp

Technology - National Association of the Deaf

Where would we be without technology? One of the things that the deaf and hard of hearing community all agree on is that technology has the power to provide ...
http://www.nad.org/site/pp.asp?c=foINKQMBF&b=180437

Deaf Resource Library

Various research, resources and information concerning deaf communities in the United States and Japan.
http://www.deaflibrary.org/

BBC NEWS Technology Deaf to sign via video handsets

A US team develops software to help deaf people use video to chat via sign language over mobile networks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/6366177.stm

Viable and Sign Shares Team Up to Provide Video Relay Services - PR-USA.net press release

In a VRS call, deaf and hard of hearing people for whom American Sign Language is their native language use video technology to connect to a Video ...
http://www.pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=115387&Itemid=34

Electrosmog, Cell Phones, and Cancer.... Oh My!

By Emily Stephens ???The Earth is being engulfed in electrosmog!??? Arthur Firstenberg is one of the growing number of electromagnetic hypersensitive EHS people who suffer physical and psychological symptoms reportedly caused by electromagnetic fields.
http://womensbioethics.blogspot.com/2008/06/electrosmog-cell-phones-and-cancer-oh.html

Bill Gates in Canada: a checkered legacy CBC British Columbia

As Bill Gates prepares to step down from day-to-day activities at Microsoft Corp., he leaves a checkered legacy in Canada.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/06/27/tech-billgates.html?ref=rss

Stone Deaf Pilots - Telecommunications Relay Service

Stone deaf Pilots is a blog that covers deaf technology, assistive technology, and tech-related accessibility issues faced by the deaf and hard of hearing."One of the most frustrating things about being a deaf person is using Relay and getting hung u
http://www.stonedeafpilots.com/?p=50

Hearing Loss News and Articles: March of technology opens doors to ...

Jun 5, 2006 ... Instead, broadband and video technologies are enabling the deaf for the ... Harkins points out that technology had already given the deaf a ...
http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2006/06/march_of_techno.html

deafTECH : Too many gadgets, too little time and money!. . . aaAAAAHHH!!

FTC Separates Fact from Fiction on Cell Phone Do Not Call Registry - Government technology ... Text 4 deaf - Two-way Web Text Messaging SMS for the deaf Community ...
http://www.deaftech.net/

Internet Resources -- Deafness

Library of Rochester Institute of technology RIT and National Technical Institute for the deaf NTID
http://wally.rit.edu/internet/subject/deafness.html

Ear Foundation - International Meetings Held In Nottingham - Medical News Today press release

... in 1989 to bring to the UK the innovative technology of cochlear implantation which offers useful hearing to profoundly deaf children and adults. ...
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113015.php

HUMOUR: How Many Deaf Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb

There are so many variations of the ???How Many??..??? jokes. Recently, there was variation called ???How Many Internet Group Members Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb???? which appears at the end of this post. I present to you, a deaf version of the
http://alltheyoungdudes.radio666fm.com/2008/06/24/humour-how-many-deaf-does-it-take-to-change-a-lightbulb/

AG Bell and deaf coalition conferences differ on cochlear implants Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Cedarburg - Eight-year-old Collin Mathias darts out of the house and heads for the basketball hoop, his younger...
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=766249

Gates Predicts Computer Implants

Technological advances will one day allow computers to be implanted in the human body - and could help the blind see and the deaf hear.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/gates-predicts-computer-implants/2005/07/01/1119724814774.html%22here?oneclick=true

As personal technology explodes, deaf and blind people feel left ...

Jun 23, 2008 ... Olivia Norman&39s fingers fly across her laptop keyboard, dexterously tapping out instant messages to friends and entering search-engine ...
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/06/23/0623techaccess.html

Deaf Is Technology

Yes, technology has made it possible for some deaf people to use special ... Can a deaf person use the phone? How do deaf people use technology to communicate? ...
http://www.deafis.org/technology/

Variety of Products for Deaf, Hearing Impaired, Hard of Hearing - ...

Offers products for deaf, deafness, hearing impaired, hard of hearing. TTY, TDD, amplified telephone, ameriphone, williams sound, ultratec, phone tty, sign language and more...
http://www.hearmore.com/

&39American Tales&39 at Deaf West Theatre - Los Angeles Times

Twain&39s phone-line-cross&39d lovers find that the technology that gives them long-distance intimacy can&39t guarantee privacy -- they may be the first citizens ...
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/theguide/la-gd-perf26-2008jun26,0,4325554.story

Missionary elites: born of ignorance, deafness and confusion

Let's call this for what it is. Hypocrisy. A brazen display of utter, craven hypocrisy. Tony Abbott was a minister in the failed Howard Government: the Howard Government which ignored - until a losing election was looming in its rear vision - Aboriginal
http://eaglesplace.blogspot.com/2008/06/missionary-elites-born-of-ignorance.html

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 2008 Convention Opens in Milwaukee PR Newswire via Yahoo! News

No Better Time to Celebrate Spoken Language
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080627/pl_usnw/alexander_graham_bell_association_for_the_deaf_and_hard_of_hearing2008_convention_opens_in_milwaukee

Hackers send thousands of fake calls to deaf people

A Utah company whose video conferencing technology is used by tens of thousands of deaf people to communicate is trying to figure out who would be base enough to hack into their system and flood tens of thousands of deaf customers with fake conference cal
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695263119,00.html

Assistive Technology List for the Deaf

Vermont deaf Program list of assistive technology and products for the deaf and hard of hearing with links to the sites.
http://www.dad.state.vt.us/dvr/deaf/Assistive_Technology_Deaf.htm

Deaf Technology

Deaf technology ... Other technologies exist to cater for the needs of deaf and heard of hearing people such as: ... The Irish deaf Society offer the Bellman ...
http://www.deaf.ie/IDSinfo/deaftech.htm

Induction inductive loop systems, Assistive listening devices, ...

Deaf Awareness technology - We are specialists in induction inductive loop systems, assistive listening devices ALD's, personal sound amplifiers PSA's, infra-red systems, radio FM wireless ...
http://www.deaftech.force9.co.uk/

Researchers make noises of pre-Columbian society - The Associated Press

"We&39ve been looking at our ancient culture as if they were deaf and mute," he said. "But I think all of this is tied closely to what they did, ...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iEwddJqTjOU2i5rxjzHB8GPNUyrgD91K2BMG1

Cool Signs of an Ongoing Enlightenment

Dousing the Politics Lamp - a bit - here??s a survey of what progressive innovators, entrepeneurs etc are up to! Remember, leader-politicians are important, but they can only help a civilization and citizenry who are helping themselves! But first, a cha
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2008/06/cool-signs-of-ongoing-enlightenment.html

Researchers re-create pre-Columbian sounds MSNBC

Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.? But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy scr
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25391041/

"CC for Flash" - Simplify Captioning for Adobe Flash

Use of Adobe? Flash? technology to add dynamic and engaging video content to Web sites is growing exponentially. With WGBH's new solution, developers are able to more easily add captions in Flash. Now, millions of users who are deaf or hard of hearing a
http://www.nuff-respec.com/technology/cc-for-flash

Resource Materials & Technology Center for the Deaf and Hard of ...

Resource Materials Center for the Hearing Impaired serves teachers with students who are deaf/hh in Florida.
http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/RMC/

Deaf Awareness Technology - Company information

A word from the proprietors : Paul Cox and Linda Cox. Drawing on over two decade&aposs experience of installing equipment for ...
http://www.deafawarenesstechnology.co.uk/info.html

RIT - National Technical Institute for the Deaf - Technical College ...

NTID is the world's largest technical college for deaf students. It is one of 8 colleges of Rochester Institute for technology in Rochester, NY.
http://ntidweb.rit.edu/

Craig C. Malbon - Newsday

... for the Deaf, has received a Teacher Recognition Award from the Association of Suffolk Supervisors for Educational technology for integrating technology ...
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/lilife/ny-llwhat0295742654jun29,0,7255864.story

Fatherlessness and same-sex parenting

Fatherlessness and same-sex parenting June 18th, 2008 Posted in Children/Family By Marcia Segelstein, OneNewsNow It??s been many years since the late Senator Patrick Moynihan tried to sound the alarm about the problem of fatherlessness in the bla
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/06/18/fatherlessness-and-same-sex-parenting/

Researchers make noises of pre-Columbian society AP via Yahoo! News

Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/pre_columbian_sounds_2

Deaf race car driver uses technology to communicate with pit

Russell Errigo, a deaf race car driver, emailed me these pictures showing him using an Ultratec Compact TTY as a wireless TTY radio to communicate with his pit crew while zooming around the track at 100+ mph speeds.
http://www.stonedeafpilots.com/?p=81

Hearing Loss News and Articles: California School for Deaf gets ...

Aug 28, 2006 ... Along with a rigorous curriculum for students in Kindergarten-high school, the California School for the deaf incorporates technology in its ...
http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2006/08/california_scho_1.html

Induction inductive loop systems, Assistive listening devices, ALD&aposs ...

Induction loops, Induction loop systems, inductive loops, diy induction loops, deaf loop, how does an induction loop system work, assistive listening device, ALDS, Alarms for the ...
http://www.deafawarenesstechnology.co.uk/

Harris Communications - products for deaf, deafness, hard of ...

Proposes a broad range of products for deaf and hard of hearing people, including TTYs, notification systems, amplified telephones, and assistive listening systems.
http://www.harriscomm.com/