Sign Language Blog

March 13, 2008 on 5:00 am | In Sign Language |

Family’s story of devastation at hands of drunken driver a stark
Herald & Review - Brown, who is not deaf, was fluent in sign language before the crash and still communicates with her sister through the manual alphabet - spelling words with her fingers.

Greenwich Theatre festival is down with the kids
News Shopper - In Clownderella Kinny teaches his crowd to use sign language and in The Selfish Crocodile, Blunderbus Theatre Company works the names of children present into each performance.

Disability rhetoric must be made reality
Guardian Unlimited - On the single occasion a social worker met D, who uses sign language, no signer was present. When the council eventually set up a review panel to look into the case, following external pressure, social services told the panel that the social worker

What’s Up in the Albemarle 03/12
Daily Advance - Attendees will cover 18 educational topics, including learning conversational Spanish, sign language, storytelling, recognizing child abuse and food safety.

Doctors use Botox to treat rare neurological illness
Billings Gazette - She even considered learning sign language. With the injections, her vocal life is returning to normal. “I feel like myself again,” Hearn said. As is the case with all Botox treatments, there is a possibility for complications - such as sucking liquid

Sent back to Cuba
Miami Herald - Translations also can be difficult, and this case involved adults who use sign language. Still, the decision was made to send the family back.

Stanwood kids thrive in mixed-ability classroom
Everett Herald - Quietly shadowing him, Catherine rose to her feet as well, making sure to give Josh the space he needed to lead his classmates as they used American Sign Language to review March-themed words, such as shamrock, kite and rainbow.

Coming attractions
St. Petersburg Times - A sign language interpreter will be present at the 2 p.m. Sunday show. Tickets are $20 online at www.tarponarts.org or call (727) 942-5605. Send entertainment items for Diversions:

School defies agency order to admit service dog
Newsday - Voels and a sign language translator spoke to the teenager, his mother, Nancy Cave, and family attorney Paul Margiotta as reporters watched from a distance.