DeafDigest Blue - April 23, 2017
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Barry Strassler, Editor
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Last week's ASL Videos in youtube
http://deafdigest.com/videos/research-frustration/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/referee-laughing-hard/
This week's ASL videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/louisehume/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/teenagecodas/
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Saturday's Deaf Picture for your surprise
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Top stories about the deaf:
Bollywood, India's version of our own
Hollywood, has cast a hearing actress for
a deaf role and the newspapers were
praising her for her high-risk role.
Same old story - hearing actors cast in
deaf roles instead of just using deaf
actors.
Researchers at The State University of New York
are saying that hearing tests do not catch
the most common form of hearing loss.
American School For the Deaf has been
celebrating its 200th birthday.
Nevada State College in Henderson is beginning
a new major - Deaf Studies. They are saying
it is the only college in the state to offer
this such major.
Fishers (Indiana) Fire Department is developing
a database to tell firefighters if there are
deaf residents in a house that is on fire.
It probably will work if the deaf residents
update the fire department with their addresses,
but if they don't then what?
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This week's ASL video in youtube
NAD NEEDS LOUISE HUME
Who is Louise Hume? Why the NAD needs her? In a small
city of around 270,000 people, about 900 deaf people live
in that city.
And almost 470 deaf people from that city joined the NAD as members!
More than 52 percent? Yes. The city was Akron, Ohio,
and Louise Hume, a deaf woman, explained to these deaf people
in Akron why the NAD is important to them. After listening
to her, many of them signed up with NAD as new members.
It was in 1948. Will this happen today with a new
"Louise Hume" as "NAD salesperson"?
Good question!
- for ASL News version with captions, please visit:
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Lip reading tale
The deaf person thought hearing person said:
I watched the clothes at the laundromat
The hearing person actually said:
I washed the clothes at the laundromat
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This week's ASL video in youtube
A COMMON CODA TALE
Every Coda has tales of growing up in families of
deaf parents.
What is the most common Coda tale? As teenagers,
before they were allowed to drive cars, they would
sneak out to drive the car at 2 AM or 3 AM while
deaf parents were sleeping.
And how did the deaf parents catch them? Very
easy - they would look at the number of miles on the
car and ask them if they drove those "extra miles"
last night!
- for ASL News version with captions, please visit:
http://deafdigest.com/videos/teenagecodas/
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COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR - continuing series
If you are hiring a realtime captioner, you might want to make sure that he or she has some experience or knowledge about the subject being captioned, and you may want to give them additional information about the assignment. If a captioner is asked to caption something that they know nothing about and have not prepared for, it can be a big problem.
In addition to having the skills to caption, one of the most difficult things for a captioner to develop is a dictionary of terminology. The dictionary basically tells the computer how a captioner writes a particular word or phrase and translates it into English. If the words aren't in a captioner's dictionary, they can't translate properly.
If a captioner is given the proper material in advance, he or she can keep up with speakers using long and difficult words. If you let your captioner know that you will be speaking about compounds that contain more than one chiral center that are stereoisomers but not enantiomers, your captioner can enter the words in advance and communicate difficult or technical terminology to the consumer.
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News of the Week - Looking Back 10 Years Ago:
If Dwight Brewington has his way, then we will be
rooting for our first deaf NBA star. Dwight who started
his collegiate basketball career at Providence before
transferring to Liberty, has applied for the NBA
draft, forfeiting his remaining season of eligibility.
We, the deaf, who follow pro basketball, should not
collectively hold our breaths. Dwight was advised by
basketball scouts not to declare for the early draft.
They said his pro skills is borderline. Dwight, who did
not agree with the assessment, went ahead with it.
More likely he will head out to play pro basketball
either in the NBA Development League or overseas.
Deaf players Lance Allred is in the development
league whereas Jamal Bradley is playing pro ball overseas.
editor's note:
Brewington was not drafted. He went on to play a long
pro basketball career in the lower professional
levels, but not with NBA.
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News of the Week - Looking Back 5 Years Ago:
SPAT may help determine which is better - ASL-fluent
mental health clinician or a non-ASL fluent clinician,
accommodated by an interpreter - when working with
deaf patients. SPAT? It stands for Signed Paired
Associates Test, and it is a project administered by
teams of researchers from University of Rochester
and NTID.
editor's note:
Don't know what became of it.
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