Sign Language Blog

January 21, 2006 on 10:38 am | In Sign Language |

D3million Building Project Inaugurated 
The board of directors and staff of St. John School For The Deaf on recently inaugurated their newly rehabilitated school building in Kanifing South.

Sign language class helps babies communicate 
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) If you’ve seen a baby wave bye-bye, it shouldn’t surprise you that babies can use their little fingers to communicate before they can speak.

Bulletin Board for Palm Beach County 
American Association of Individual Investors, Southeast Florida chapter, meeting, speaker Carl M. Birkelbach, 7 p.m. refreshments, 7:30 p.m. program, South County Civic Center, 16700 Jog Road, Delray Beach. $10 per person at the door. Call 561-495-9813.

The trial of a deaf-mute accused of rape was postponed by the Sessions Court yesterday to June 12, to enable the  
Judge Suraya Othman made the postponement yesterday after a teacher from a nearby deaf and mute school, known as Cikgu Hadi, stood in as interpreter.

WHAT’S GOING ON 
MAKING REAL THE DREAM CELEBRATION: A REMEMBRANCE OF THE REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. , 4 p.m., 171 Cedar Arts Center, First and Cedar streets, Corning. Reception for artwork by area high school students followed by concert with Gospel music from Faith to Face Choirs and the Sign Language Choir.

The Color of Iron 
The Color of Iron exhibition will explore the relationship between art and science and feature works in painting, ceramics, glass, and photography at the Chazen Museum of Art January 14 through March 19, 2006. This unique presentation will showcase the commonplace yet extraordinary element of iron and the range of colors it can produce by fusing an understanding of chemical techniques with

Around Waltham 
The Winter Exhibition at Panopticon Gallery, 435 Moody St., features the premiere showing of Bradford Washburn, Photographing In High Places — a portfolio of 10 photogravures printed by Jon Goodman.

U.S. Postal Service Delivers High-Tech Alternative Way of Communicating for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Employees 
The U.S. Postal Service — one of the nation’s largest employers of people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing — is offering new technology to allow its employees to better communicate with each other.