Iowa State Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf

2010-03-25 - Article: Speaking or signing, it's the same to your brain

"Language is created in the same areas of the brain, regardless of whether a person speaks English or uses American Sign Language to communicate, new research found. The discovery suggests that something about language is universal and doesn't depend on whether people use their voices or their hands to talk. . ."

By Clara Moskowitz

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September-6-2010

Iowa Association of the Deaf September Newsletter

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August-30-2010

Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

"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’

August-20-2010

Mobile Sign Language being developed at UW

"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.&n

August-8-2010

U.S. Senate passes Video Access Act

"The U.S. Senate passed the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (S. 3304) on August 5, 2010, by unanimous consent . . ." CLICK HERE to read about this Act.

August-8-2010

DSCI's August E-News

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