Sign Language Blog

Raven Publishing s author Janet Muirhead Hill is Writer s Notes Magazine Award Winner Again
… We appreciate the simplicity of her language without talking down to younger readers. As many …

It s A Small World! New Brainy Baby DVDs Introduce Children to Different Languages
… Art,” and “Music.” Future Brainy Baby subjects include sign language, math, and pre-reading and phonics …

Custody Calculations Family Law Web Site: Keeping Jobs in America
… 1,000.00. Another 90 individuals, attorneys or courts can sign up for different services with deposits starting at …

Initiative pushes for Success by 6 in youngsters
Norman Transcript - Healthy Steps has a hot-line and many classes available to parents including baby sign language, infant massage classes and happiest baby on the block. There is no charge for this program. For more information call Chris Jarko at 579-2238 or e-mail

Environmentalist who gave up talking for 17 years gets heard
Wearford Democrat - At the University of Montana, where he was a teaching assistant, he used his personal sign language to lead classroom discussions a surprisingly effective teaching method, he says, because students were forced to work together to figure out what

Baby fair offers a host of options for parents
Herald News - Terri Hubbard was on hand with her big, fuzzy teddy bear demonstrating baby sign language and promoting her business FasTracKids.The Naperville-based educational center offers signing classes for hard-of-hearing children between the ages of 6 months

ANDERSON’S DRAFT PARTY
USA Today - Such simple steps are second nature to the Andersons, who all use American Sign Language. “Being deaf is not isolating when one is in the company of others who know sign language,” says Anderson’s father, Glenn. “In addition, it is not isolating when

OC Slices:Chores wrapped up on road
Orange County Register - The paranoid few shared their limited sign language with me. Through my decidedly unscientific observations here’s what I saw. Talk, talk, talk . Many of you were chatting your way through traffic on cell phones. As traffic slowed, phones came up

She knew what she wanted to be
Free Lance-Star - By the time she was 9, Brittany Allen knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. The Stafford County native was in the third grade when she joined a sign-language club at Grafton Village Elementary School. She was so fond of Megan Clare, a deaf

World’s Largest Forum on Commercialization of Semantic Technology and Semantic Web
… and applications-including SOA, ontologies, semantic integration, semantic queries, natural language extraction and semantic wikis-but on how these …

Lifelinks Introduces No Wait VRS (Video Relay Service) for Deaf Community Using XO Communications
… which do not have instant access to VRS sign language interpreters but rely on an agent to answer …

Winter program sends disabled vets down the hill
Antelope Valley Press - I love it,” Jerry Vang said, through his mother, using sign language. “I like snowmobiling. I didn’t get to do that last year.” This was Jerry Vang’s second year at the clinic - which ran from April 1 through 6 - and he came away with the clinic’s

Vouchers for disabled students go unused
East Valley Tribune - Now, Lexie is learning sign language at Chrysalis, which provides one teacher for every two students and uses play therapy and positive reinforcement to teach 20-plus autistic children. Lexie can sign words like yes, more, candy, music and crackers.

Voting begins for Youth Parliament representative
Scoop - Topics of debate in previous years include: tax, abortion, student loans, NCEA, sign language, terrorism, youth councils, factory farming, defence, child abuse, technology and transport. Youth Parliament has been held every three years since 1994. ENDS

Klondyke Tailings Community Advisory Board to meet
Eastern Arizona Courier - For additional information contact Frank Bell at 1-800-234-5677 or Bell Frank@azdeq.gov . Persons with disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation, such as a sign language interpreter, by contacting Juana Bonilla at 1-800-234-5677. Requests

Destroying isolation at Deaf Pride Day:
Nevada Appeal - California has issued a state emergency because of the lack of qualified sign language instructors and interpreters and while Nevada hasn’t declared it, we are facing an even bigger crisis,” said Cindy Frank, Deaf Studies instructor and program

IPFW Presents the 2006-2007 Omnibus Lecture Series
WANE-TV - For more information about the Omnibus Lecture Series, visit the Omnibus website via our link. Sign-language interpretation is available upon request. Call 260-481-IPFW. The Omnibus Lecture Series is made possible with the support of the English

Little Oz Decator perseveres
Tulsa World - He has learned some sign language and likes to draw. “He wrote his name just the other day,” Decator said. “It was turned the wrong way, but he wrote it.” Oz loves the Power Rangers and music, often plucking at a guitar and singing. “He just sings

National Arbitration Forum Reports 21% Increase in 2006 Domain Name Filings
… IDNs), domain names that display in a language using non-standard characters such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese or …

Was The Star Of Bethlehem Really One Star, And Was Christ Really Born In A Barn? Helena Lehman of Pi
… a four volume series about the allegorical Language of God, a hidden language that …

Jamaal Anderson knows every day is Father’s Day
ESPN.com - He became deaf, and his family didn’t even try to learn sign language. So Glenn was on his own, at the playground and at school. There were no interpreters available and no televisions with closed captioning. Right from a young age, he was in

Timeouts discipline kids well
Pocono Record - BABY SIGN LANGUAGE I enjoyed your column titled “A Young Child’s Brain is Wired to Learn New Languages.” I agree! My children and I are learning American Sign Language together. Since we started learning a second language, I have made several

DYSLEXIA: A COMMON LEARNING DISABILITY
… a major factor. Dyslexia is a life-long language processing disorder that hinders the development of …

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 …