DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, March 5, 2015
-- deaf woman rejected in a TV program
Nina Poersch is one of the participants in the
Survivor: Worlds Apart reality TV series. She
has been facing two handicaps - only deaf person
in a all-hearing cast, and she also is much older
than others in the cast. As a result she has been
rejected and left out by these participants. Her
anger has led to arguments with them. It did not
help when she was placed in a group of two
much-younger women. People watching this program
have sympathized with her.
-- a 74-year old deaf adventurer
If you are at the age of 74, would you be willing to
climb a mountain above 14,000 feet? Retired NASA deaf
engineer Richard Dawes did - and he has many pictures
to prove it! He was successful with his first winter
mountain climb - at the Quandary Peak in Colorado.
He worked for many years at the NASA in Huntsville,
Alabama before retiring.
-- a software that invents new ASL signs
Could a software invent a new ASL sign for a new word?
There are always new slang words such as duck face, lolcat,
hawt, selfie, photobomb, etc. When interpreters hear
these words, and if there are no signs for it, they
have to quickly invent it and hope the deaf person
understands it! Software to solve that problem?
Well, a new company in New York is working on such
a software. Will it succeed? There are as many as
half-dozen signs for the word "computer" and for the
word "football"!
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