Sign Language Blog

February 1, 2008 on 6:00 am | In Sign Language |

Silent Super Bowl Ad Gets People Talking
WFTV - The 60-second spot is in American Sign Language with captions. The actors are really Pepsi employees who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and who are members of EnAble, an employee network whose mission is to promote a more inclusive environment for

Laugh factory
Boston Globe - They sell temporary tattoos for babies, “I’m savin’ up for more Valium” coin banks, and magnets that attempt to pass off obscene gestures as sign language instruction. For two decades, the Berkshires company has turned good design and bawdy humor into

‘Lesser God’ about signs, sounds, silence
Des Plaines Times - whose relationship with James, a man who can hear, forms the nexus of the drama’s complex, provocative plot. “Hearing people often see deafness as something that needs to be fixed. But we’re not broken,” said Matzkin, speaking in sign language

Nose means new Thai PM in sign language
Boston Globe - BANGKOK, Thailand Sign language interpreters in Thailand have run afoul of some ruling party supporters by holding their noses to refer to the new prime minister. Samak Sundaravej, chosen in parliament Monday as the first elected prime minister

Pushing age limits - along with their strollers
Houston Community Newspapers - PUSH IT GOOD Kara Jablonka (left) and Cynthia Goodman (right) push their daughters Emma, 17 months, and Eliana, 13 months, in their strollers down Washington Street. They discussed the pros and cons of being an older mom. Throughout their lives

LEARNING BY DOING: Third-graders find out what it s like to live
Patriot Ledger - After examining a model of the ear, students try to read lips and learn sign language to understand what it is like to be deaf. A learning disabilities station had a paragraph with the letters jumbled to mimic how it looks to someone with dyslexia

School for Deaf addressing suicide
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Tillman not only found a mental health professional who was able to help, she also learned sign language so she could stay connected with her son. If families lack communication with their deaf children, she said, the problems can get much worse. “Just