Google Supporting The Deaf Community

Supporting the Deaf and HoH community: contact an ASL agent today.

Starting today, there will be American Sign Language (ASL) specialists to help people who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing through video chat on the Google Disability Support team at Google's services online.

Please visit for more details at https://support.google.com/accessibility/answer.

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Deaf Bulgarians The Equal Access Campaign

Campaign from Bulgarian public’s awareness of hearing health.

Заслушай се in Bulgarian, is an information campaign managed by a foundation of the same name which focuses public attention on the challenges people who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing face and raises the Bulgarian public’s awareness of hearing health.

Our team is made up entirely of volunteers. Some are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, others cannot but lend an ear to the cause. Our common goal is to ensure equal access for people who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing to information, education and professional development as well as their appropriate involvement in public life.

We work to raise the awareness of hearing health and will provide information about the dangers of noise pollution and the ways to protect one’s hearings.

At present, more than 120,000 people in Bulgaria have various degrees of hearing loss. A large part of them rely mainly on sign language as a means of daily communication and the need for professional sign language interpreters is ever growing. This is why we will support the creation of a modern national centre for sign language and services.

The Listen up campaign team works to improve the access to information and communication through the use of information technologies by all people with hearing loss. Visit us for more details http://zaslushaise.bg.

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Forbes: Changing Technologies For The Deaf

Deaf News: The Forbes Report: 4 Game-Changing Technologies For The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are more than 360 million people worldwide with a disabling hearing loss, including 32 million children and one-third of people over 65 years of age. Hearing loss may result from genetic causes, complications at birth, certain infectious diseases, chronic ear infections, the use of particular drugs, exposure to excessive noise and aging.

Related - New Technology of Communication for the Deaf

One of the main impacts of hearing loss is on the individual’s ability to communicate with others, since spoken language development is often delayed in children with deafness. Limited access to services and exclusion from communication can have a significant impact on everyday life, causing feelings of loneliness, isolation and frustration, particularly among older people with hearing loss.

Recent advances in technology have the potential to improve the quality of life for those who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Here’s a look at four products in this space that caught our attention.

MotionSavvy UNI: MotionSavvy, founded by a team of students from Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, announced “the world’s first two-way communication software for the Deaf.” UNI translates American Sign Language (ASL) into speech, and speech into text. It utilizes a special camera to track the location of both hands and all ten fingers. Graphic representations of the hands provide live feedback to make sure gestures are being captured correctly. The software’s dictionary can be expanded with customized signs added by the user. There’s also an option to upload those signs to the Internet, to share with others. The more an individual uses the system, the more accurate and tailored it becomes. To facilitate the Hearing-to-Deaf half of the communication, the package also includes Dragon Nuance Pro, one of the leading pieces of voice recognition software. Interested customers will have to wait for MotionSavvy UNI, but not long.

The company is planning to release it in September 2015. The video below gives a high level overview of the concept...read full story with videos, HERE.

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Deaf Canadians Launches VRS Petition

The Canadian Association of the Deaf has launched online Video Relay Service petition.

OTTAWA, Ontario -- Here's the link to sign the online petition launched by the CAD to demand a permanent Video Relay Service (VRS) in Canada.

To activate this feature, press the "CC" button.

Join us to sign the petition to demand that the House of Commons, Government of Canada, Ministers of the Crown and Members of Parliament to support a permanent national Video Relay Services (VRS) in Canada by this fall 2012 with official spoken languages (English and French) and signed languages American Sign Language (ASL) and Langue des Signes Québécoise (LSQ)... Read More.

Also consider forwarding this to your friends, family, co-workers and anyone who wants to support the Deaf community in this petition. Why not post it on your Facebook, Twitter or other social media sites to get the word out too?

Petition Link URL: HERE.

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ADA Effective Communication - Title III in ASL

ADA Effective Communication using Title III and ASL from the Disability and Communication Access Board.

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Communication Access Provisions Title III of the Americans with Disability Act for Public Accommodations: https://hawaii.gov/health/dcab/docs/fact_sheets/ca_pa.pdf

Lack of effective communication. ADA effective communication systems tool in the ongoing battle against disability discrimination. In a recent in-depth article assessing the impact of the ADA in Hawaii. https://dredf.org/international/paper_y-g.html.

Legal Resources - Disability Rights: The ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act): Questions and Answers, visit https://davislevin.com/facts_adaqa2.html for more information.

Make Videophone Calls Like A Champ!

Welcome to the world of making and receiving videophone calls!

"Make Videophone calls like a Champ" explores how you can improve your videophone conversations... and become a "Champ"!

VRS or Video Phones calls are placed in the home or at an office. They are held over a standard broadband internet connection through specially designed, easy-to-use, videophones connected to a TV monitor or through a personal computer with a web camera.

The Deaf user sees a sign language interpreter on the monitor and signs to the interpreter, who then calls the hearing user via a standard phone line and continues to relay the conversation between them.

Subtitles Life For Deaf People

Crowdsourcing could help Deaf People subtitle their everyday life.

Subtitles make TV far more accessible for DEAF people, but new research promises to give people with hearing difficulties the option to subtitle their everyday lives, too, using crowdsourced transcribers.

Researchers from the University of Rochester have developed an app which allows Deaf individuals to read subtitles that correspond to what's happening to them, in their day-to-day lives. The app, called Scribe, beams an audio track from the user's phone to a central server... Read The Full Story.

VRS Call Centre Continues In Canada

VRS call centre continues in Canada in American Sign Language.

Vincent expresses concerns about the continuation of Sorensen VRS call centres in Canada after Telus VRS cut off.

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Deaf Awareness: Alone In A Deaf World

Short Film - A woman is alone and none of the communication access service for hearing people in a Deaf world.

If you watch this video and open your eyes and understand how the Deaf people feels, if what it's like to be Hearing in a Deaf world. Everyone needs make the world accessbile.

Learn more, visit at https://asli.com.

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