Sorenson Makes New Acquisitions to Advance AI-Based Sign Language Translation
Sorenson announced the acquisition of OmniBridge and Hand Talk to enhance its AI-driven automated sign language translation technologies.
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ASL in New Jersey Schools
An article in the New Jersey newspaper, “The Record,” spotlights the prominence of American Sign Language (ASL) in the state's schools, after a 2015 bill allowed high schools to categorize it as a world language. Students are required to take five credits in order to graduate.
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Multilingual Students May Perform Better Across Subjects
Young people who consider themselves ‘multilingual’ tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are actually fluent in another language, new research shows.
White House to Provide ASL Interpreter for Presidential Address, ‘ABC’ Reports
In what “ABC News” reports as a “first” the White House will provide a sign-language interpreter for President Biden’s presidential address to Congress on Wednesday.
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Phonak Wins Red Dot Awards for Virto Black and Roger On
Phonak announced it has won two international Red Dot Awards for excellence in product design for its Virto Black hearing aid and Roger On remote microphone.
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Sign Language Exposure May Impact 5-Month-Olds
NTID researcher and Assistant Professor Rain Bosworth and alumnus Adam Stone studied early-language knowledge in young infants and children by recording their gaze patterns as they watched a signer. The goal was to learn, just from gaze patterns alone, whether the child was from a family that used spoken language or signed language at home.
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WHO Releases First ‘World Report on Hearing’
Nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide ─ or 1 in 4 people ─ will be living with some degree of hearing loss by 2050, warns the World Health Organization’s (WHO) first World Report on Hearing.
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Researchers Examine Brain-Sign Language Link
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) now wanted to know which brain regions are actually involved in the processing of sign language across different studies – and how large the overlap is with brain regions that hearing people use for spoken language processing.
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UConn Launches ASL Education Program
Recently approved by the Connecticut Board of Education, the program is designed to prepare aspiring educators interested in becoming teachers of ASL.
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Enterprise Premont Launches Windowed Mask
Entreprise Prémont announced the launch in production of Humask-Pro Vision, a windowed mask specially designed for the family and professional circle of people with hearing loss.
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Deaf-owned and Operated Mozzeria to Open Second Location in Washington, DC
The restaurant was created using DeafSpace principles. These principles incorporate open-space design and strategic placement of windows, lighting, and seating designed to maximize the effective visual experience for Mozzeria customers and employees.
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‘Discover Magazine’ Article Challenges Notion of Deafness as Something to Be ‘Cured’
In an article published on the ”Discover Magazine” website, author Sarah Katz challenges the view in the scientific community that deafness is a problem that needs to be cured, potentially by new CRISPR technology that could eliminate a TMC1 gene mutation.
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Adverse Childhood Communication Experiences May Be Associated with Increased Risk for Chronic Disease
The study notes that two forms of early life toxic stress that can potentially impact the health of individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing are language deprivation (insufficient access to direct child–caregiver communication during the critical period of language development) and communication neglect (ongoing or recurrent exclusion from indirect family communication and incidental learning).
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Face Masks Challenging for People with Hearing Loss, Researchers Say
The researchers recommended several ways for clinicians to overcome the barriers of masked communication, including simple strategies, such as facing the patient and getting their attention while speaking.
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‘Quartz’ Article Compares ‘Zoom Fatigue’ to ‘Concentration Fatigue’
According to “Quartz,” Zoom fatigue can include difficulty understanding what is being said with pixilated video and choppy audio, or a struggle to understand non-verbal cues from others, which is something the hard-of-hearing community has to do while lipreading or viewing sign language.
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‘NPR’ Article Discusses Challenges of Coronavirus Safety Measures for Deaf Community
Tightened visitors’ restrictions in hospitals may mean that interpreters will be barred from medical appointments, in which case, the deaf person may need to rely on app-based video interpreting services.
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Martha’s Vineyard Revisits Sign Language History
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass, has a long history of sign language; in the late 1600s, the first congenitally deaf children were born on the island, and began communicating in a Kent, UK-based sign language, which eventually evolved into Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL).
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A Deaf Child Gained Hearing—then Lost It. Was There a Better Way to Help?
By Jack Wang, News Officer, University of Chicago For families with deaf children, a cochlear...
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