Deaf Dancer Teaches Harvard Masterclass

Deaf dancer Antoine Hunter visits Harvard University, teaching masterclass classes.

Harvard University channel on YouTube share a video of Antoine Hunter, a founder of Urban Jazz Dance Company in San Francisco and producer of the Bay Area Deaf International Dance Festival, brings a joy of movement and a mission of artistic leadership in an inspiring masterclass.

His company incorporates many dance genres, including ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and African, as well as including sign language as part of an aesthetic that he describes as gritty and raw and “fresh with unexpected movement.”

SOURCE - Harvard University

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How Deaf Drivers Can Be Safe From Police

After Deaf man is killed by cop, here's how hearing impaired drivers can be safe in the United States.

NEW YORK CITY -- The recent fatal shooting of a Deaf driver by a police officer in North Carolina has raised questions about safety for hearing impaired motorists.

Jennifer Labriola, the principal of the New York School for the Deaf who drives to work each day, told Inside Edition through a sign language interpreter that if a hearing impaired driver is pulled over, "you tell the police officer you're Deaf and 'I need to write this down.' You point to your ear."

SOURCE - InsideEdition

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Deaf Self Portrait: This Machine Is A Human

Deaf Canadian activist, Landon Krentz on being Deaf: This machine is a human - Self-portrait to raise awareness about a life with CI.

Landon Krentz is a Vancouver-based arts and events management professional and Deaf-queer individual. He has created a series of social media self-portraits to raise awareness of issue that Deaf people face. This is the second self-portrait in his series.

Are we programmed to behave robotically in social environments?

The cochlear implant (or CI) received its approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1990 and it has been controversial for over two decades. This machine had a significant impact on Deaf culture due to the perception of hearing people trying to force it on the community. The greater the force, the more some Deaf community members want to flip a table. For them, the CI is nothing but a computer inside a human body.

In this image, this person is the embodiment of a betrayal of the Deaf world, though Deaf culture remains a part of him.

His experience of Deafness is like a porcupine: when there are social dangers, a quill pricks him for every awkward encounter.

Every day, he is reminded of his interaction with Audisms and ensures that they’re comfortable with him, even though a large percentage of the hearing world will avoid Deaf people due to communication barriers.

He is often caught “checking out” of a conversation and, like a machine, nodding with a pseudo smile.

This bionic human experiences stigma and judgment from both Deaf people and the hearing world because he belongs to neither.

Though his Deaf identity is invisible, he has a choice: to hide or to reveal his beautiful self.

The CI may be a machine and technology will never be perfect. The gap between both worlds the Deaf and hearing worlds are great. It is up to you to decide to proceed with an open mind towards acceptance of all auditory binaries and spectrums.

SOURCE - STRAIGHT

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ASLized 'Through the Hands'

WATCH [ASL] - ASLized 'Through the Hands'

ASLized fosters the integration of American Sign Language (ASL) educational research into visual media and literacy. The main objective is to produce teaching and learning materials in ASL with two focuses ASL literature, preserving culture and history and ASL Linguistics, promoting a better understanding of the complex structure and use of sign languages.

ASLized - 'Through the Hands'
Signed by Erica Tara Lily Parker
Camera by Andre Otalara
Directed and edited by Sonia Pivac.

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Deaf Institutions, Since 1950, over 67 percent of our homes are disappearing in America - In this day and age of economic cuts, the closure of educational programs and schools for the Deaf has been viewed as a convenient way to reduce budgets. Over the past 63 years, several schools for the Deaf have been closed and numerous others have experienced cuts as well as the threat of closure.

Closing such schools actually result in increased long term costs for states rather than serving as a cost-saving measure and, more importantly, result in severe educational deficits for many Deaf and Hard of Hearing children.

Reference: http://www.nad.org/news/2013/3/media-spotlights-threats-deaf-schools.

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