Sign Language Blog

Pioneer Press, MN - 19 hours ago… Library storytellers and music: Deaf storyteller Estella Bustamante will present children's stories using sign language with an ASL interpreter to translate …

Disabled adults choose their own lifestyle
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune, WY - Dec 17, 2006… Richmond sat on the couch engrossed in the TV program, Pintello cleaned up in the kitchen and Robinson told an intricate story with sign language and hand …

Apathy is not for the easily offended
Charleston Gazette (subscription),  USA - Dec 29, 2006… the dental assistant Marlene. Marlene is deaf, and Shane learns enough sign language to communicate with her. He spends plenty of …

Sorenson opens interpreting center in Memphis
Milwaukee Business Journal, WI - Dec 26, 2006Sorenson VRS is a free service that allows deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use sign language to conduct video relay calls with hearing individuals …

Figure out your roles, then deal with in-laws
Inside Bay Area, CA - 14 hours ago… Will you use a playpen? Should your baby sleep in the same bed as you and your fiancee? Are you going to teach your baby sign language? …

Pioneer Press, MN - Dec 20, 2006Deaf children can communicate directly with Santa using American Sign Language this Christmas as part of a new program from Hands On Video Relay Services. …

Sorenson opens interpreting center in Memphis
Milwaukee Business Journal, WI - Dec 26, 2006Sorenson VRS is a free service that allows deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use sign language to conduct video relay calls with hearing individuals …

WITNESS-Hope blooms in smiles of Kinshasa polio kids
Reuters AlertNet, UK - Dec 29, 2006… deaf. But even Lopez has created his own crude form of sign language and charms visitors with his good looks and winning smile. …

St. Petersburg Times, FL - Dec 28, 2006… But Brightman, the American Sign Language instructor at Armwood High School, is currently classified as an out-of-field teacher. … "I'ma sign language teacher. …

Prosecutors to challenge ruling in favor of deaf, mute defendant
Macomb Daily, MI - Dec 29, 2006… against them and in favor of deaf and mute defendant Mary Ann McBride, who allegedly confessed to police after a confused session of sign language and reading …

Soref JCC is signing on to signing
Miami Herald, FL - 17 hours ago… Lakhani uses American Sign Language. … “The mentor introduced American Sign Language. Our whole family signs now. ''So many other schools turned her away. …

You can't keep a good man down
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Dec 28, 2006… Longmire, now 52, enrolled in a sign language course at Palomar College and taught Beebe. He learned quickly, she said, and mastered …

She s in, she s out as Gallaudet president
Worcester Telegram, MA - Dec 17, 2006… Born deaf to a hearing father and a deaf mother in a time and place where she was not exposed to sign language, Mrs. Fernandes, now 50, communicated solely …

Sorenson Communications Opens Eight Additional Video Relay Service …
dBusinessNews Kansas City (press release), MO - Dec 26, 2006Sorenson VRS is a free service that enables deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use American Sign Language (ASL) to conduct video relay calls with hearing …

WITNESS-Hope blooms in smiles of Kinshasa polio kids
Reuters AlertNet, UK - Dec 29, 2006… deaf. But even Lopez has created his own crude form of sign language and charms visitors with his good looks and winning smile. …

Shattering the world of silence
Health24.com, South Africa - Dec 17, 2006… of who says what - even though his hearing impairment is greater than that of thousands of South Africans that have to rely on sign language to communicate. …

Computing, UK - Dec 14, 2006We hope our coverage of the world s road signs is encouraging you to drive safely. Martin Williams at Powys City Council writes …

A matter of interpretation
Richmond Times Dispatch, VA - Dec 17, 2006… I could hire another three or four employees [for the Richmond office] right now," says Camp, director of Virginia operations for Sign Language Associates Inc. …

Introducing sign and sing
YourHub.com, CO - Dec 13, 2006Registration for the spring semester is beginning now! Kindermusik withMiss Lisais offering a new music and sign language program called Sign & Sing. …

Marilyn s Readers Respond
Parade Magazine - Dec 28, 2006… Readers also may be surprised to learn that if a child learns sign language in another country and later moves to the US, he or she will sign ASL (American …

Recognise sign communication as scheduled language: deaf body
Monsters and Critics.com, UK - Dec 2, 2006… Deaf. 'We demand that sign language which is universally understood by the deaf community should be made a part of the constitution. …

"Give recognition to Indian Sign Language"
Hindu, India - Dec 2, 2006NEW DELHI: To press their demand for recognition of Indian Sign Language as a scheduled language of the country, the national association of the deaf will …

Teachers teaching outside their field
St. Petersburg Times, FL - Dec 28, 2006… But Brightman, the American Sign Language instructor at Armwood High School, is currently classified as an out-of-field teacher. … "I'ma sign language teacher. …

Sign Me Up, Now!
SUNY The New Paltz Oracle,  USA - Dec 8, 2006… So why is it that American Sign Language is not considered a foreign language? It was the Provost s decision that Sign (Language …

We need privacy in HIV tests - the disabled
Mmegi, Botswana - Dec 20, 2006… confidentiality. This is because we have to go with sign language interpreters, which compromises our right to confidentiality," Keoagile said. …

"Give official recognition to Indian Sign Language"
Hindu, India - Dec 2, 2006NEW DELHI: To press their demand for recognition of Indian Sign Language (ISL) as a scheduled language of the country, the National Association of the Deaf …

Bangkok Post, Thailand - Dec 9, 2006… "We began to think that if babies are trying to communicate before they learned how to speak, they could be taught sign language. …

Jack Wilson column
Pueblo Chieftain, CO - Dec 30, 2006… Multiple miscellaneous useful things: a large box of astonishing-colored oversized paper clips, a card illustrating the basics of sign language (one of the …

Introducing sign and sing
YourHub.com, CO - Dec 13, 2006Registration for the spring semester is beginning now! Kindermusik withMiss Lisais offering a new music and sign language program called Sign & Sing. …

Armstrong Projects 'Healthy, Wealthy And Wise' Through Junior …
Memphis Daily News,  USA - Dec 28, 2006… foreign languages with a concentration in Spanish. She also has a desire to learn sign language. She said making the jump from education …

Interpreters give medicine meaning
DetNews.com, MI - Dec 28, 2006… Services Program, started working at the UM Health System in 1992, it only had about 100 requests a year for interpreters, most of them for sign language. …

Deaf couple still fighting FEMA 15 months after Katrina
KHOU (subscription), TX - Dec 26, 2006… The English language, most culturally deaf people, meaning that sign language is their first language, are not proficient in written language, in written …

Hockey-playing dad steps up to help special needs kids
DetNews.com, MI - Dec 27, 2006… He comprehends on an 8- or 9-year-old level, and uses halting language, pictures and crude sign language to get his point across. …

Disagree, the present salary commensurate with performance
Bernama, Malaysia - Dec 19, 2006PENANG, Dec 19 (Bernama) — Radio dan Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) is considering widening the use of sign language which is currently confined to Berita Perdana …

Apathy is not for the easily offended
Charleston Gazette (subscription),  USA - Dec 29, 2006… the dental assistant Marlene. Marlene is deaf, and Shane learns enough sign language to communicate with her. He spends plenty of …

Baltimore Sun, United States - Dec 4, 2006… Students walk a picturesque campus of green lawns and old brick buildings, speak American Sign Language and enjoy their own culture. …

Court interpreters a key link
Bradenton Herald,  United States - Dec 28, 2006… 12th Judicial Circuit, which covers Manatee, Sarasota and DeSoto counties, there is a $232,000 yearly budget for contract interpreters, including sign language …

Hand-y Talk: Sign Language supplements early language development
Parents & Kids, MA - Dec 27, 2006… Widely considered the fourth most commonly used language in the United States, American Sign Language (ASL) is a language employing gestures made with the …

Deaf audience granted full access to holiday musical
Asbury Park Press, NJ - Dec 29, 2006… But the college's annual ASL Rock 'n' Roll Holiday Show isn't one of those American Sign Language-set-to-music concerts mostly for hearing people. …

WITNESS-Hope blooms in smiles of Kinshasa polio kids
Reuters AlertNet, UK - Dec 29, 2006… deaf. But even Lopez has created his own crude form of sign language and charms visitors with his good looks and winning smile. …

Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter: Jamaican actor with a worldly view
Jamaica Observer, Jamaica - 16 hours ago… Anderson-Gunter, who is of German and Maroon heritage, currently teaches voice and articulation, acting and American sign language in the US. …

Scotsman, United Kingdom - Dec 22, 2006… he watched as a child, or indeed any other children's theatre company working in the UK today - Krazy Kat productions use British Sign Language, not English …

Armstrong Projects 'Healthy, Wealthy And Wise' Through Junior …
Memphis Daily News,  USA - Dec 28, 2006… foreign languages with a concentration in Spanish. She also has a desire to learn sign language. She said making the jump from education …

Bluefield Daily Telegraph, WV - Dec 28, 2006… In addition to the line helping each other out, Beamer said his offense has just got to be good (at) sign language to alert wideouts and backs of a …

Family looks forward to girl's recovery
News-Leader.com, MO - 12 hours ago… While Tommie is just beginning to talk, she is communicating through sign language, a skill she learned for fun before the accident. …

In Love with the voice
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - 18 hours ago… read, she explains. Her son can read what his siblings are saying as well as understand when they use sign language. Now director …

BABY SIGNS
Bangkok Post, Thailand - Dec 9, 2006… "We began to think that if babies are trying to communicate before they learned how to speak, they could be taught sign language. …

Teachers teaching outside their field
St. Petersburg Times, FL - Dec 28, 2006… But Brightman, the American Sign Language instructor at Armwood High School, is currently classified as an out-of-field teacher. … "I'ma sign language teacher. …

"Give recognition to Indian Sign Language"
Hindu, India - Dec 2, 2006NEW DELHI: To press their demand for recognition of Indian Sign Language as a scheduled language of the country, the national association of the deaf will …

Physically Handicapped Actors Tackle Wilder's "Our Town"
PR Web (press release), WA - 13 hours ago… The Sunday, January 21 performance will be audio-described for low-vision and blind patrons and sign language interpreted for deaf audience members. …

Milwaukee Business Journal, WI - Dec 26, 2006Sorenson VRS is a free service that allows deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use sign language to conduct video relay calls with hearing individuals …

Colleges building a sturdier future
Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription), SC - Dec 25, 2006… The college also has plans to integrate sign language into its "Ideas and Culture series," a two-semester sequence of courses where students engage in debates. …

SIGN LANGUAGE Typography is an art form of its own - and it's all …
Arizona Republic, AZ - Dec 23, 2006They surround us, instruct us, warn us, entertain us. We read them in books and obey them on traffic signs. There was a time when …

New sign language program combines songs, playtime
Fayette County Review, TN - Nov 30, 2006Kindermusik with Amy Martin offers a new music and sign language program that combines songs and playtime. The program, called Sign …

sign language
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA - Dec 27, 2006By Caeriel Crestin Weekender Correspondent. Medical science doesn t have all the answers. But neither does acupuncture or homeopathy …

Kinny brings theatre to life for the deaf
Scotsman, United Kingdom - Dec 22, 2006… he watched as a child, or indeed any other children's theatre company working in the UK today - Krazy Kat productions use British Sign Language, not English …

DetNews.com, MI - Dec 28, 2006… Services Program, started working at the UM Health System in 1992, it only had about 100 requests a year for interpreters, most of them for sign language. …