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"Seventy years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. . .Benjamin Lee Whorf let loose an alluring idea about language’s power over the mind, and his stirring prose seduced a whole generation into believing that our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think. . ."

By Guy Deutscher.  Originally posted on nytimes.com.  All rights reserved.

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"Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle are building the first mobile devices to effectively transmit American Sign Language via compressed video over a 3G cellular network. . ."

By Matt Hamblen.  Originally posted on August 17, 2010 at computerworld.com.  All rights reserved.

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"Comedian Keith Wann, adds the title of premiere ASL talk radio host to his list of ongoing endeavors within the ASL community. Over the past twenty years in entertainment, Wann has become a leading figure in his industry as an entrepreneur and bilingual ASL comedian of international acclaim. Wann’s show, titled That Keith Wann Show–Cultural Bridges, launches on August 4th from 8:00-9:00 pm EST, on the Toginet talk radio network. Wann will host guests; Windell “Wink” Smith Jr., Director of Outreach & Video Communications of Sign Language Resource Services, Inc., Inspirational, bi-lingual and bi-cultural Speaker, Lisa Callsen, and Stand-up Comedian Lianna Carrera. . . ."

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"An astronaut living in orbit has delivered the International Space Station's first address to the deaf community.

NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson recorded a six-minute video for deaf children to give them a glimpse of what life as an astronaut is like. While American Sign Language (ASL) is the fourth most commonly used language in the United States, it had never before been used on the space station, NASA said in a statement.

In the video, Caldwell Dyson also discussed what inspired her, as a hearing person, to learn sign language. . . "

By Zoe Macintosh, posted on www.msnbc.com, July 26, 2010

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" NPR’s research and development group, NPR Labs, has been invited to demonstrate its latest technical innovations at the White House and at the Commerce Department as part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  At both events, NPR Labs will demo its captioned-radio initiative which paves the way for enabling deaf and hard of hearing Americans to experience or “listen” to radio. . ."

Originally posted on www.rbr.com on July 19, 2010.

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The FCC has decided to not grant Sorenson Video Relay's request for a stay on the interim rates.

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"Research into grammar by academics at Northumbria University suggests that a significant proportion of native English speakers are unable to understand some basic sentences.  The findings -- which undermine the assumption that all speakers have a core ability to use grammatical cues -- could have significant implications for education, communication and linguistic theory . . ."

Posted on sciencedaily.com on July 6, 2010.

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"Mic Dolan accepts that nothing will stay the same when he leaves for college next month. In fact, he's counting on it.  'I'm looking forward to life changing,' the 20-year-old deaf man typed out on the screen of his smart phone. . ."

By Mary Stegmeir in the WCF Courier.  Posted on wcfcourier.com on July 5, 2010

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"Jose Gutierrez Was Forced Into Slave Labor before Being Rescued by Police; Now He Supports His Family Working at the Museum . . ."

Reported by Seth Doane on CBS Evening News.  Aired July 5, 2010.

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" . . .The problem of representing a Deaf ‘voice’ on the screen is akin to the problem of representing other minority languages.  Film and television producers in the United States have to make choices about whether the majority audience of English speakers will have access to the minority language or not.  In the face of this dilemma media producers have taken several approaches: subtitling foreign speech, translating foreign speech through other characters, or leaving the language inaccessible except to those who use it. . ."

Posted on the MC journal.  Written by Jennifer Rayman.

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"Ira speaks with Scott Krepel – via his interpreter Marc Holmes – about what happened when Scott got cochlear implants as a kid and could suddenly hear for the first time. (9 1⁄2 minutes)"

Originally aired on 06.25.2010 on http://www.thisamericanlife.com/

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"In the 1970s, a group of deaf Nicaraguan schoolchildren invented a new language. The kids were the first to enrol in Nicaragua’s new wave of special education schools. At first, they struggled with the schools’ focus on Spanish and lip-reading, but they found companionship in each other. It was the first time that deaf people from all over the country could gather in large numbers and through their interactions – in the schoolyard and the bus – Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) spontaneously came into being. . ."

By Ed Young

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