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30 Dec 2009 |
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... During that time we have hired three hearing impaired care workers with the help of the Deaf Society of News South Wales Employment Service who provide all interpreting needs and support for the new care workers. |
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| 30 Dec 2009 | CANADA: Deaf linguistics professor a trailblazer | ||||||||||||||||
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| Wilkinson believes she's the first deaf professor at the U of M, and Canada's first deaf linguistics professor. There's only a handful of deaf linguists in the U.S. and Wilkinson is aware of only two other deaf professors in Canada in any discipline. | |||||||||||||||||
| 23 Dec 2009 | TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd failed to provide a captioning service for programs broadcast on GO! | ||||||||||||||||
| The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found the licensee of TCN Sydney, TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd, breached the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (the BSA) by failing to provide a captioning service for twenty seven programs broadcast on the GO! multi-channel from 9 to 11 August 2009. | |||||||||||||||||
| 23 Dec 2009 | Virgin Blue 'lost disabled passenger' | ||||||||||||||||
| A Deaf woman who boarded a flight in Melbourne was lost at Brisbane Airport for five hours and missed a connecting flight because Virgin Blue staff failed to assist her, despite assurances to her relatives they would do so. | |||||||||||||||||
| 23 Dec 2009 | UK: Deaf charity in Beaconsfield wins lottery funding for research | ||||||||||||||||
| A charity is set to carry out extensive research into the health of deaf people after it was awarded nearly £500,000 by the Big Lottery Fund. | |||||||||||||||||
| 18 Dec 2009 | HSC '09 results: Elly triumphs over adversity | ||||||||||||||||
| Receiving a high ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) is an achievement for any student, but for Elly Unicomb, who suffers from profound hearing loss, success is particularly sweet. | |||||||||||||||||
| 17 Dec 2009 | Australian bushfire warning alerts fail to reach disabled | ||||||||||||||||
| The Australian Federation of Disability Organizations revealed on Thursday the new bushfire warning alerts fail to reach millions of people with disabilities. | |||||||||||||||||
| 16 Dec 2009 | Futures in doubt with grant wait | ||||||||||||||||
| ... But even if approval comes tomorrow, it will be too late for the Australian Theatre of the Deaf. The shoestring company will lose two members before Christmas. | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 Dec 2009 | Sign language puzzle solved | ||||||||||||||||
| Scientists have known for 40 years that even though it takes longer to use sign language to sign individual words, sentences can be signed, on average, in the same time it takes to say them, but until now they have never understood how this could be possible. | |||||||||||||||||
| 12 Dec 2009 | USA: Sign-language concert gives Christmas songs a new feel | ||||||||||||||||
| “A Show of Hands” is a Christmas concert using performers who interpret the words of popular holiday songs using sign language. | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 Dec 2009 | Santa Claus also uses sign language | ||||||||||||||||
| For children across the world, they want nothing more right now than to talk with Santa Claus and tell him what they want for Christmas. | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 Dec 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
A Deaf man from Crawley is heading to the South Pole as part of daring expedition. |
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| 10 Dec 2009 | UK: Beckett in British Sign Language? Why deaf theatre is coming of age. | ||||||||||||||||
| They caused controversy with a show arguing that deafness wasn't a disability, but theatre company Deafinitely don't want to be defined by single-issue politics. | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 Dec 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
The Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf and marblemedia have launched the first children’s animated dictionary of American Sign Language. |
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| 8 Dec 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Being deaf is not the only problem you face when you are a Croatian curler working with a Canadian coach. |
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| 7 Dec 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Rural children who are Deaf and communicate using sign language are being offered a fully subsidised place at a specialist school in Sydney through the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children’s Host Carer Program. | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 Dec 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Filmmaker Adam Elliot has joined disabled and advocacy groups who have denounced cinema companies for applying for an exemption from the Disability Discrimination Act. | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 Dec 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Members of the deaf and hearing impaired community staged a silent protest against proposed education fund cuts outside Prime Minister John Key's electorate office today. | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 Dec 2009 | Act now to improve Cinema Access – deadline Monday 7 December |
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| Arts Access Australia, the national organisation for arts and disability, urges you to voice your objection to the current application made by Village Roadshow, Greater Union, Hoyts and Reading Cinemas requesting exemption from the Disability Discrimination Act for a period of two and a half years. | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 Dec 2009 | Tas ahead on anti-discrimination, but more funding needed: retiring commissioner |
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| "There is just a complete shortage of translators, and also for the deaf community," she said, "and just being able to have access and the money to be able to provide a service to everybody, whether they speak English as their first language or are just coming to terms with English as a language." | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 Dec 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The Tasmanian Government today announced that it will fund 90% of the cost of installing specialised smoke alarms in the homes of deaf or hard of hearing Tasmanians. | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 Dec 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Bending over an imaginary walking stick, Vladimir Yarets slowly paces around a carpet of photographs that tell the story of his silent travels around the world. | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 Dec 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Applications are now open for the 2010 Deafness Forum Educational Scholarship (close 12 Feb). | |||||||||||||||||
| 27 Nov 2009 | Application for exemption under DDA section 55: Cinema captioning and audio description |
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| The Commission has received an application on behalf of Hoyts Corporation, Greater Union Organisation, Village Cinemas and Reading Cinemas (the applicants) for a Temporary Exemption under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) from complaints in relation to the provision of captions and audio description in cinemas operated by the applicants. | |||||||||||||||||
| 27 Nov 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The Other Film Festival is now accepting entries for the 23 – 29 August 2010 festival. The festival screens films made by, with or about people with a disability and people who are Deaf. Entries close 1 March 2010. | |||||||||||||||||
| 27 Nov 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The ‘Speak Up: Arts & Disability Priorities for NSW' report is the result of a three year consultation project with arts and disability stakeholders across NSW. | |||||||||||||||||
| 26 Nov 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The Federal Government released the Access to Electronic Media for the Hearing and Vision Impaired Approaches for Consideration Discussion Report 2009 (Media Access Report) at Parliament House, Canberra, this morning. | |||||||||||||||||
| 20 Nov 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Google, in a significant development for deaf Internet users, announced it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube. | |||||||||||||||||
| 18 Nov 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Putting a ring on the bride's third finger, the bridegroom held up a heart-shaped red board with "Yang Yuan, I will love you forever!" written on it. This was his silent promise to his wife. Both of them are deaf. | |||||||||||||||||
| 18 Nov 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| An untried deaf actress has been handed the lead role in in a primetime BBC thriller. | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 Nov 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The City of Greater Geelong has been announced by Deaf Sports Australia as host city for the 2012 Australian Deaf Games, following a competitive bidding process. | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 Nov 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Seven indigenous dancers have travelled from Cairns to Brisbane at the end of October to perform at the closing ceremony of 4th World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness. | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 Nov 2009 | HUNGARY: Parliament recognises sign language as official language |
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| Hungary's Parliament on Monday unanimously adopted a bill seeking to recognise sign language as an "independent and natural" language. | |||||||||||||||||
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| When trouble hit, Jessica's son knew just what to do. | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 Nov 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| A Deaf dancer who uses vibrations in the floor to “hear” the music has been awarded a scholarship by Edge Hill University for her work to encourage more disabled people into performing arts. | |||||||||||||||||
| 30 Oct 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The coach of the national deaf sportsmen team, Winfred Chartey Annan, who allegedly connived with the Sports Development Officer of the National Sports Council to send able-bodied persons to participate in an international Olympic game meant for the deaf, in Australia, has been arrested by police. | |||||||||||||||||
| 29 Oct 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| In the stifling afternoon heat, a momentous occasion came to pass today. There was excited chattering all around but with a difference - it was soundless. Animated facial expressions and rapid-fire hand gestures created an atmosphere of exhilaration. This was the inauguration ceremony of the first Maldivian sign language dictionary. | |||||||||||||||||
| 29 Oct 2009 | Expression of Interest to set up a committee to establish Deaf Sports NSW |
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NSW has been the missing link in Deaf Sports in Australia for far too long, and we rely on local people in NSW to make something happen! Deaf Sports Australia has been consulting with key stakeholders in NSW over the last 12 months, including the NSW Government, and we feel this is the best way forward. Deaf Sports Australia has developed an Expression of Interest document to set up a possible committee to establish Deaf Sports NSW again. To see the Espression of Interest, click here. If you are interested in becoming involved you need to fill out the Resume document. To download a copy of the Resume document in Word, click here. If you have any questions, contact:
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| 22 Oct 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Being profoundly deaf hasn’t stopped Krishneer Sen becoming a mouthpiece for Fiji’s deaf community. And now the New Lynn resident is being rewarded for it. | |||||||||||||||||
| 21 Oct 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The lively and animated debate that State Parliament is renowned for is extending beyond the bear pit as NSW Parliament hosts the Deaf Community's celebration of National Week of Deaf People (NWDP) this week. | |||||||||||||||||
| 19 Oct 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Gallaudet University trustees appointed T. Alan Hurwitz, leader of a respected rival institute, as president of the nation's premier college for the deaf and hard of hearing Sunday, with none of the tumult surrounding the last presidential search. | |||||||||||||||||
| 13 Oct 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Southern Cross University rugby union player Simon Mahony is perhaps the luckiest footballer on the planet - after all, he has never heard the continuous shrill of a rugby referee's whistle while playing. | |||||||||||||||||
| 12 Oct 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Josh Hess inspires those around him at school and on the football field. | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 Oct 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| A student from the University of Salford has become the first deaf male nurse to enter the nursing register using British Sign Language (BSL) as his first language. | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 Oct 2009 | Findings Could Lead to Improved Lip-Reading Training for the Deaf |
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| A research team from the School of Computing Sciences at UEA compared the performance of a machine-based lip-reading system with that of 19 human lip-readers. They found that the automated system significantly outperformed the human lip-readers - scoring a recognition rate of 80 per cent, compared with only 32 per cent for human viewers on the same task. | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 Oct 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Customers at a Doncaster bank will be learning their own names in sign language next week as part of a project linked to Doncaster Deaf Trust's new youth trampoline project. | |||||||||||||||||
| 25 Sept 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| A drama starring deaf teenagers from south London is being hailed as the start of a "new era" of children's television. | |||||||||||||||||
| 21 Sept 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| This year, Kaohsiung hosted the World Games and Taipei hosted the 21st Summer Deaflympics. The mayor of Taipei is a member of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), while Kaohsiung’s mayor is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). | |||||||||||||||||
| 19 Sept 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has taken steps to present the Universal Convention on the Rights of the Child in Braille and sign language for the first time in Sri Lanka for the benefit of deaf and blind persons, NCPA Chairman Jagath Wellawatta said. | |||||||||||||||||
| 18 Sept 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Clear thinking, modern technology, cross‐Australia co‐operation and good local knowledge were all ingredients in the successful rescue of a hearing and speech‐impaired woman bogged ... for more than six hours. | |||||||||||||||||
| 18 Sept 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Recently, the ABC aired an interview with the CEO of a successful company promoting the cochlear implant, the pride of Australian technical and business achievement which, implanted in a deaf person, can enable that person to hear perfectly. | |||||||||||||||||
| 17 Sept 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Taipei City councilors and residents said the Deaflympics raised the city’s international profile, but criticized the Taipei City Government for devoting too much effort to the opening and closing ceremonies while ignoring facilities, transportation and organization. | |||||||||||||||||
| 16 Sept 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The 21st Deaflympics came to a close last night with a massive banquet... | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 Sept 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| A deaf woman rescued in a Victorian forest by sending a text message to her auto-recovery service in Western Australia highlights the appalling situation in Australia where deaf people have no direct access to emergency services outside their homes. | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 Sept 2009 | IBM and Chinese Deaf Association Launch Real-time, Online Sign Language Interpretation |
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| IBM and the Chinese Deaf Association announced the launch of an online sign language interpretation service in Taiwan, aimed to provide video and audio instant messaging services to the deaf. | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 Sept 2009 | James C. Marsters, Orthodontist and Pioneer for the Deaf, Dies at 85 | ||||||||||||||||
| James C. Marsters, DDS, a deaf orthodontist and co-developer of the first telephone that converted audio tones into typed messages, has died at 85. Marsters’ daughter, Jean, told the LA Times that her father died July 28 at his home in Oakland after a short illness. | |||||||||||||||||
| 10 Sept 2009 | TAIWAN: Deaflympics an Opportunity for Athletes to Break Sound Barrier | ||||||||||||||||
| Thousands of deaf athletes are in Taiwan for the 21st summer Deaflympics. Athletes and organizers say the games are an opportunity for the deaf to showcase their abilities. | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2009 | TAIWAN: China boycotts 2009 Deaflympics Opening Ceremonies in Taipei |
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| China boycotted the opening ceremonies for a large sporting event held in Taiwan for the second time this summer amid growing tension between the two governments. | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 Sept 2009 | Findings Could Lead To Improved Lip-reading Training For The Deaf And Hard-of-hearing |
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| A new study by the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests computers are now better at lip-reading than humans. | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 Sept 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| A DEAF student is suing La Trobe University for allegedly failing to provide skilled interpreters and routinely forcing her to prove she was deaf, despite her condition being permanent. | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 Sept 2009 | Summer Deaf Olympics Kick Off in Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||
| The 21st Summer Deaf Olympics officially kicked off in the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, Saturday. The games offer Taiwan an opportunity to show a positive image to the world after an August dominated by negative headlines related to the government's response to Typhoon Morakot. | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 Sept 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Being a border collie, Pixie is blessed with natural smarts - all the better to help the eight-week-old pup learn sign language. | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 Sept 2009 | TAIWAN: Record number of volunteers to help with Deaflympics | ||||||||||||||||
| More volunteers will participate in the 11-day Summer Deaflympics than in any previous single event held in Taiwan, another sign of the country's growing altruism that has also been reflected in responses to recent natural disasters. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 Sept 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| A team of web enthusiasts from Grangemouth, near Falkirk, is travelling to Taiwan to gather footage of this year's Deaflympics. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 Sept 2009 | USA: Motocross racer hasn't let deafness hold her back | ||||||||||||||||
| Speeding around the track, professional motocross racer Ashley Fiolek can't hear the engine on her bike. Instead, she uses the vibrations beneath her to tell when to shift. | |||||||||||||||||
| 28 Aug 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| For the first 40 years of his life, Dr. James C. Marsters refused to be alienated by his deafness. He was provisionally admitted to dental school on the condition that no special accommodations would be made for him. | |||||||||||||||||
| 25 Aug 2009 | Detroit musician spreads music to the deaf with music video company |
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| The odds are likely that Sean would also have some musical genes, and he does - the 27-year-old Farmington Hills resident plays drums and bass. But there is one thing that differentiates him from the rest of his family - he's been deaf since he was a toddler. | |||||||||||||||||
| 19 Aug 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Dr Brendan Nelson MP will tomorrow exclude the voice of deaf people from discussions about the needs of deaf babies and children. | |||||||||||||||||
| 18 Aug 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| .DEAF or hearing-impaired people can have specially designed smoke alarms installed in their homes but only if they can afford it. | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 Aug 2009 | James C. Marsters dies at 85; Pasadena orthodontist helped establish phone use for the deaf |
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Deaf himself, he and two other deaf men created a modem that linked a teletypewriter to traditional phone lines and converted audio tones into typed messages. |
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| 14 Aug 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Members of a club for deaf people applying for a late licence told councillors they would be holding cabaret nights with male and female strippers. |
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| 13 Aug 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
...Callewaert has developed two new iPhone applications to help users better learn the language of the hearing impaired. |
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| 7 Aug 2009 | Deaf Australia calls for a fair go for Deaf people and others with disabilities |
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Deaf Australia has called for extensive changes to disability policy in Australia following the release on Wednesday of a report that details the shocking exclusion of people with a disability from the Australian way of life. |
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| 7 Aug 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
TAIPEI: Residents of Taipei are taking up sign language with a frenzy, in preparation for the 21st Summer Deaflympics to be held in the city next month. |
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| 5 Aug 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
A new portable device for deaf-blind people allows them to have face-to-face conversations, make phone calls using a text relay service and communicate by SMS. |
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| 5 Aug 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
.An official of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, James Armah, who under the pretext of sending some deaf persons to a football tournament in Australia, ended up sending men who hear and speak, has been picked up by the police. |
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| 3 Aug 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Ghana - The Deaf Football Australia has threatened to drag the Association of Sports for the Disabled of Ghana (ASBOD) to the International Sports Confederation for the Disabled (ISCD) for sanctions after allegations that Ghana sent hearing players to Australia for an international friendly. |
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| 3 Aug 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Today's story in the Los Angeles Times describes the popularity of cochlear implant surgery for babies and toddlers as soon as they are identified as deaf... That raises a concern over what will happen to sign language in the years ahead. |
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| 27 Jul 2009 | USA: Deaf man tased, pepper sprayed by Mobile officers for staying in bathroom too long |
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Police used pepper spray and a Taser on a deaf and mentally disabled man Friday after they were unable to get him to come out of a bathroom at a Dollar General store, authorities said. |
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| 22 Jul 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Slovakia has dismissed protests by neighbouring Hungary over a new language law which would impose fines for using minority languages. |
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| 12 Jul 2009 | SCOTLAND: teen is first deaf person to get Duke of Edinburgh award |
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Teenager Ross Grant has made history by becoming the first deaf person to win a top award. The 19-year-old is the first deaf person to achieve the Duke of Edinburgh’s leadership award. |
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| 12 Jul 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
As an infant, a cochlear implant gave Sarah Keenan, now 10, the gift of hearing, but the decision gave her parents much angst. |
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| 8 Jul 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
It's not only humans that can learn from watching television. Software developed in the UK has worked out the basics of sign language by absorbing TV shows that are both subtitled and signed. |
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| 3 Jul 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
It's not only humans that can learn from watching television. Software developed in the UK has worked out the basics of sign language by absorbing TV shows that are both subtitled and signed. |
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| 26 Jun 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities Bill Shorten and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy have reinforced the importance of accessibility in mobile communication services at the launch on 24 June of the Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative (GARI). |
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| 25 Jun 2009 | FOXTEL Backstage Access II highlights value of captioning in education |
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Accessible media was top of the list at FOXTEL Television Centre during a recent event for students from mainstream schools who are Deaf or have hearing impairment, supported by the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC). |
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| 24 Jun 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Mentally or physically disabled children in Haiti face grave challenges. Many parents in this deeply impoverished, deeply religious culture treat the birth of a disabled child as a curse, a punishment from God. They hide their children, pretend they don't exist. |
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| 24 Jun 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Deaf consumers have been targeted in the latest internet scam. |
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| 24 Jun 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia, the world’s largest collaborative encyclopaedia, will be providing a new feature that allows videos to be embedded into a topic’s listing. In addition to the standard search, edit and embed functions, the videos will also have the option to feature closed captions. |
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| 22 Jun 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
In a small studio in the Norwegian city of Bergen, three colleagues put together the final edit of television shows. Nothing extraordinary, had it not been that all of them are deaf. |
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| 21 Jun 2009 | ISRAEL: Web site offers emergency information for deaf, blind |
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The Web site, known as Accessible Emergency Information, covers 18 emergency preparedness topics and puts the material in a friendly format for deaf, blind and limited sight people. |
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| 19 Jun 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Unless your primary means of human interaction is to trace letters in another person’s palm - as Betty Palmer, of Spokane, has done for a half-century - you may not fully appreciate a new device that allows people who are both deaf and blind to communicate with anyone, anywhere, anytime. |
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| 17 Jun 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
In the Northern Territory a Deaf man had to wait helplessly in the foyer of a government building for hours because staffing cutbacks meant there was no receptionist to let him in. |
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| 15 Jun 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
The Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA) has applied for an exemption regarding captioning under the Disability Discrimination Act. ASTRA was granted a previous exemption in 2004, on condition that it met a number of commitments. |
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| 11 Jun 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, yesterday published research that identifies barriers to inclusive design in communications equipment, products and services, and ways to address these barriers. The research suggested that there are issues that the communications industry can easily address now. |
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| 7 Jun 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
...We will never forget the date: 7th June 2009 - it is when the first ever Deaf person and Sign Language user was elected to the European Parliament. |
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| 26 May 2009 | Web Site Launched for Parents and Educators of Deaf Children |
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A new Web site intended to be a clearinghouse for questions about raising and educating a deaf child has been launched by the Center for Education Research Partnerships at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. |
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| 12 May 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
A 15-year-old student who set up a sign language class for his school friends has had his hard work recognised. |
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| 4 May 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
DEAF children from all over Gwent are heading to the Senete to call on Assembly members to improve education and services provision for deaf children in Wales. |
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| 14 Apr 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Laptops and smartphones allow easy access computing power, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology want to go one step further by turning the entire world into a computer. |
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| 8 Apr 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Deaf pupil Veronica Browne, 8, has to cram her studies into two hours a week because she does not have a full-time interpreter at Camden Public School. |
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| 8 Apr 2009 | Air Canada challenges deaf–blind man's right to travel alone |
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In a case that balances passenger safety and the rights of disabled people, Air Canada is challenging a deaf and blind man's contention that he should be allowed to fly without an attendant. |
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| 7 Apr 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Every newborn child will be tested for hearing loss under a new plan announced by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 29 June. |
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| 31 Mar 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The deaf children's orchestra has astounded audiences in Colombia. | |||||||||||||||||
| 27 Mar 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The dreams of deaf athletes to win international medals could be dashed after the government cut their funding - to help pay for the London Olympics. | |||||||||||||||||
| 27 Mar 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| As a child, Elizabeth Boschini said she read books which portrayed deaf children as different and passive. Now given the chance to write her own books, she wanted to portray them as normal people in control of their lives. | |||||||||||||||||
| 26 Mar 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| A new approach to teaching English-language reading and writing skills to deaf people is delivering "immensely promising" results. | |||||||||||||||||
| 25 Mar 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Bristol University has launched the world's first masters degree in Deafhood Studies. | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 Mar 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| ...Derek was profoundly deaf but could communicate with the help of hearing aids and by reading lips. He told his father about the things he still wanted to do... | |||||||||||||||||
| 28 Feb 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| The gentle sound of cicadas humming on a balmy summer's night is a sound Mark Gravolin yearns to hear. But the Warrnambool man, who lost his hearing in an unprovoked nightclub assault almost two decades ago, does not consider himself unfortunate. | |||||||||||||||||
| 27 Feb 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| ...The unusual concert, in what organizers say is the first ever concert for the deaf, is a rather public experiment by those who specialize in the science of music, who will use computers to translate audio signals into tactile sensations, along with visual projections that mimic the tempo of the music. | |||||||||||||||||
| 26 Feb 2009 | Devices aid the deaf by translating sound waves to vibrations |
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| Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone. | |||||||||||||||||
| 24 Feb 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Police officers in East Lancashire are being given deaf awareness training to be able to communicate better with the deaf community. | |||||||||||||||||
| 19 Feb 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| At a call center full of employees, complete silence might be an indicator of an unproductive staff, but the silence at one Waco call center doesn't mean that at all. | |||||||||||||||||
| 19 Feb 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| ...Signed Stories is a new web-based programme that is being launched today with backing from internationally-renowned authors. It aims to make some of the best children’s stories accessible to young people with hearing disabilities. | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 Feb 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| "What does the sun sound like" is a one-woman play about growing up in two worlds, hearing and deaf, which is something many children of deaf parents struggle with. | |||||||||||||||||
| 13 Feb 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| When you don't speak the language, it doesn't much matter whether you can hear what people say. That's the beauty of "The Amazing Race" for the show's first deaf contestant, Luke Adams. | |||||||||||||||||
| 10 Feb 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
The Australian Federation of Deaf Societies (AFDS) has today highlighted the urgent need for a federal government subsidy program to enable the Australian Deaf Community to access strobe-light smoke alarms in the midst of the Victorian bushfires. |
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| 5 Feb 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| ...Fox Jaws, The Dufraines and Hollywood Swank are among the acts that have been announced to perform at what is being claimed as being the first ever rock concert exclusively for the hearing-impaired. | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 Feb 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| TV Wales has been criticised by deaf people and politicians for dropping sign language bulletins from its flagship news programme. | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 Feb 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Whether you play music or simply listen to it, music is a big part of many people's lives. But what if you can't hear it? That's the story of two girls at one Savannah school. They're deaf, but with the help of modern technology, these girls are not only listening to the sounds of music, but mastering it. | |||||||||||||||||
| 29 Jan 2009 | UK: Pupils at a Hodge Hill school for the deaf have won a film award |
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| Two pupils at a Birmingham school for the deaf have landed a top film award after being inspired to create their own animation, Wallace and Gromit style. | |||||||||||||||||
| 27 Jan 2009 | USA: Deaf comic gets rave reviews from both hearing and hearing impaired |
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| CJ Jones, deaf entertainer/director/producer extraordinaire, used snappy wit, superb timing and downright hilarious physical comedy to perfection in his critically acclaimed comedy act "CJ Jones Live." | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 Jan 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
...The play, written by William Gibson, tells the story of Helen Keller, a blind-and-deaf girl who learns to communicate with teacher Annie Sullivan. |
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| 7 Jan 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
A deaf teenager faced discrimination at a school sports day because she could not hear announcements telling her to stop running. |
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| 6 Jan 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
Students and staff from the Illinois School for the Deaf will be at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20 to see Barack Obama's inauguration as president. |
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