Sign Language Blog

THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
Pueblo Chieftain, CO - 2 hours ago… She’d learned sign language as a child because of cousins who were deaf and admits that many special education teachers have some personal connection to the …

Community calendar
Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription), SC - 2 hours ago… American Sign Language: 6-8 pm Monday, SC School for the Deaf and the Blind, 355 Cedar Springs Road, Spartanburg; call (864) 577-7566 or visit www.scsdb.k12.sc …

Grow baby grow - Boot Camp For New Dads
ClickPress (press release), United Arab Emirates - 23 hours ago… So much so, that parents began playing music into the womb during pregnancy, teaching their baby sign language and other silly things. …

School Calendar
Miami Herald, FL - 2 hours ago… 305-822-0911. Palm Springs Middle School: Activities include the Earth, Heritage, Sign Language, Garden, and Tech clubs. Parents …

I play in a deaf football team
CBBC newsround (audio), UK - 16 minutes ago… To get our attention he puts his hand in the air and we stop. To communicate with each other we use sign language and interpreters. …

Stage and screen
Times Herald-Record, NY - 3 hours ago”Beauty and the Beast” is the classic tale of love, presented by Signstage On Tour in both sign language and English. Lycian Centre, Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf. …

Loved ones in Iraq are just a click away
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 2 hours ago… his wife. Marinaro used to call his sister, who would translate his words into sign language for his parents. The videoconference …

Making conversation
Ventura County Star (subscription), CA - 2 hours ago… They spoke through sign language to Fjeld, who signed for Paja to translate. As a hearing person, Braver said VRS makes calling much easier and faster. …

Children step into shoes of the disabled
Cherry Hill Courier Post, NJ - 1 hour ago… cut, tried to reach the fixtures in the restroom, used computer programs that help the blind navigate the Internet and learned a few words in sign language. …

Entertain our troops overseas
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - 51 minutes ago… Struthers. He has also taught American Sign Language/deaf theater courses at CSUN and has directed numerous plays at the university. …

16 Tips to be safe in the Hosptial for Patient Safety Awareness Week
… hospital, be sure to have your advocate/s sign the paperwork that gives them legal permission to …

Powerful New Halogen Employee Performance Management Suite 7.0 Now Shipping
… and weighting totals. Employee comments and electronic sign-off steps have also been simplified, and printing …

Theatre for the deaf struggling financially
Eyewitness News - WEST HARTFORD (AP) - A federal grant that helped sustain the National Theatre of the Deaf for almost four decades has been eliminated, leaving the unique West Hartford group struggling to survive. The group, whose members perform in spoken English

Speaking up for languages
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Mike Cilley wants to work on Mexican relations after he graduates from UC Santa Cruz, but he’s finding it difficult to get into advanced classes in Spanish. So he showed up Wednesday for a rally at Kresge College, along with 120 other students, to

Spiritual Resources
Washington Blade - ADIDAM REVELATION Bookstore & Dharma Arts Center presents a guided study of the teachings of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Thursday, March 16, 7:30-9 p.m. Join them Saturday, March 18 for a sacred chanting session, 7:30-8:30 p.m. 7215 Arlington Road, Suite

Freedom (and fun) with Huck Finn and Ferdinand
Gazette - Spring. When you re a kid, it bursts in with thoughts of freedom: liberation from bulky coats and mittens, a rollback of the daylight savings time that cuts into after-school outdoor play, spring break s tantalizing taste of the summer vacation

Read the full article
Boston IMC - After two years of courtroom battle, a very significant peoples’ victory was won in court today in the case against longtime anti-war activist Richard Picariello. Picariello was acquitted on all charges in the first of the two cases. And the defense

Church holding sign-language workshop and concert
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Challenge for cops comes en espa ol
Tucson Citizen - One word can change everything for police. Response time and reaction to suspects depend on being able to understand what happened. If a victim and an officer do not speak the same language, investigations can be compromised. A growing number of

Call for Donations: Rebuilding New Orleans Radio
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Handmade words
Columbus Dispatch - Fifth-graders Maria Burger, 10, left, and Linnea Beighley, 11, play a game during a meeting of the Simply Silent Signers club at Sunbury Community Library. The club meets once a week for children who have taken beginning sign language. Teacher

Mothers of autistic children join forces
Lawrence Journal World, KS - 18 hours ago… Because there are few cut-and-dried ways to treat autism, the little things the mothers learn from each other, like using sign language with Ethan and …

Play deals with HIV issues
The Mercury (subscription), South Africa - 8 hours ago… Deaf actor John Meletse will share his experiences through a sign-language interpreter in one segment of the play. All the performances …

Little fingers do the talking
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 5 hours ago… So her mother, Connie Bruner, decided to learn American Sign Language. … A growing number of moms and dads are teaching sign language to their babies. …

Something’s rotten in the kitchen
Toronto Star, Canada - 2 hours ago… They share a subsidized apartment. We spoke the other day, with the help of a sign language interpreter. … The sign language is a bit different. …

Access to Art and Culture for All, an Action Programme for 2006 …
eFinland, Finland - 1 hour ago… In addition, the Ministry grants discretionary subsidies to the sign-language theatre and for the publication of easy-to-read literature. …

Foreign domestic worker awardees hail from Western Visayas
News Today Online, Philippines - 4 hours ago… planning speech disorder. She even took a sign language course to better understand her ward and helped out with his therapy. The DFA …

Oscar finds its glow
Variety (subscription) - 20 hours ago… broken a three-year losing jinx — and Louise Fletcher — for her emotional acceptance speech, ending as it did with her use of sign language in tributing her …

Al-Maqaleh honored on World Poetry Day
Yemen Times, Yemen - 1 hour ago… A sign language interpreter stood onstage, trying his best to convey the meaning and nuances of verses to the keen students using his hands and facial …

16 Tips to be safe in the Hosptial for Patient Safety Awareness Week
… hospital, be sure to have your advocate/s sign the paperwork that gives them legal permission to …

Revolution Technology Shines at the Academy Awards
… of printed artwork that move through the sign’s viewing frame on demand. Over its seven-year history …

FLIC is expecting great things as the year ahead unfolds
Ithaca Journal - Last year was a successful year for the Finger Lakes Independence Center. Our mission is to help remove barriers that inhibit the participation of people with disabilities in community life. Everybody benefits from inclusion of people with

Keeping deaf fans rockin’
Seattle Times - Music interpreter JoAnna Ball uses sign and body language to deliver the excitement of Monday’s Bon Jovi concert at KeyArena. Shannon Kennedy, with her 9-year-old son Elijah, rocks along with the Bon Jovi concert Monday night at KeyArena. Kennedy

Five-Year Study of Proposition 227 Finds No Conclusive Evidence Favoring One Instructional Approach
… knowledge of English, transferred to mainstream English-language classrooms. The proposition contains a provision …

16 Tips to be safe in the Hosptial for Patient Safety Awareness Week
… hospital, be sure to have your advocate/s sign the paperwork that gives them legal permission to …

Feel the sound
The Daily Yomiuri, Japan - 15 hours ago… She wanted to continue speaking rather than start using sign language and she wanted to continue with her music and with her regular school classes. …

Singapore rewards 2 Filipinas with cash
INQ7.net, Philippines - 13 hours ago… disorder. Garcia even took a sign language course “to better understand her ward and help out in his therapy,” the DFA reported. …

Business promotes sign language
Gateway Newspapers - 5 hours agoThe business, Sign Language Communications, is located along Brooktree Road in Wexford and teaches clients sign language and other subjects. …

Mother Daughter Overnight events
Florida Baptist Witness, FL - 7 hours ago… Girls will also participate in a Camper s Choice activity where they will have the opportunity to learn sign language or choose from other activities. …

With signing, babies have gift of gab
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - 2 hours agoBy Lynda Percival. All toddlers know sign language. Every parent can tell you the whining child standing at their feet with arms …

WNC Interpreter Network helps patients, health care providers speak
Asheville Citizen-Times - ASHEVILLE - Telling a patient that he or she has cancer can be a health care provider’s greatest challenge. But what if the patient doesn’t speak English and the only interpreter on hand is her seven-year-old daughter? A local doctor faced this

From sea to air in seconds
Hampton Roads Daily Press - ABOARD THE USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER — In a secret and silent language, a young sailor uses flamboyant hand signals to guide an F/A-18 Super Hornet away from the edge of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower’s flight deck. With the enormous ship gently

Signs of the stage
WISC News - Beaver Dam High School freshman Lauren Bailey learns to spell her name with the help of Casey Mueller, 7, as freshman Ryan Berg waits his turn. Casey as well as his brothers Riley, 5, and Coltin, 9, are deaf and they assisted the cast mates in the

UM-Helena expanding community education
Independent Record - Education has long been an important part of my life. I began as a faculty member at UM-Helena in 1990 and have been involved with the college ever since. Through my tenure with the University of Montana-Helena College of Technology I have watched it

Oscar Speech 101: Keep it short, leave the list
Globe and Mail - Los Angeles Tom Hanks ought to know. Winning an Academy Award can be a dangerous thing especially when the whole world is watching your acceptance speech. That’s why the two-time Oscar winner is passing along some friendly advice. To make

Download movies, play with pictures, learn sign language just log
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - If you didn’t have a chance to catch PBS’ new The Elegant Universe series on television, download the three one-hour parts from the Web. Physics fans also will get a kick out of the interactives on the Universe companion site

Musical uses deaf actors
Riverside Press Enterprise - BETHESDA, MD. - In a whorl of contorting limbs, flying braids and colorful costumes, four actors spin around the stage to a hip-hop beat. “Anansi, where you be?” they shout, moving their hands in unison with the words. Their timing is off, between

Tots turn 2 amid wailing, gnashing of teeth — and that’s just mom
Akron Beacon Journal - Sniffle, sniffle. My babies are 2 ! They are no longer babies, a fact that will take me awhile to adjust to, both mentally and verbally. I have been dragging my feet about calling them “toddlers,'’ but as they were digging into their slices of

Hand signs give babies a head start
Poughkeepsie Journal - Words are spoken out loud. But babies communicate much earlier using gestures before they can talk. They wave to say “bye bye” and clap when they are excited. After decades of research, Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn came up with a program called