DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 14, 2016
-- The King uses ASL
People that love hamburgers at Burger King, know who
The King is. He never talks until just recently -
when he used ASL to communicate with the
deaf. See the picture at:
http://deafdigest.com/the-king-in-asl/
-- a confusing $60.00 hearing device
There was a story that ran in many newspapers about a
16-year old high school student "inventing" a $60.00
hearing aid, using parts from an electronic shop.
It is confusing because many people confuse hearing
aid with an amplifier! This $60.00 device is actually
an amplifier that the newspapers described as a
hearing aid. A hearing aid and an amplifier are
two completely different things!
-- ASL deaf communicating smoothly with oral deaf
Could ASL deaf person communicate smoothly with
oral deaf? Two University of Washington students have
come up with "communication gloves" that would
help ASL deaf communicate with oral deaf. These
gloves, with sensors, are plugged into a computer,
which translates what each other is saying. Will
it work? There are as many as half dozen signs
for the word "football" or even of the word
"computer"! Can these gloves catch all of these
different sign language dialects?
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Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- Postmaster, deaf
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
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