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A Reddit AMA
The Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) chats have produced some interesting conversations (if you can get past the off-topic and profile comments along the way). An AMA from earlier today was led by a deaf man with a cochlear implant who is born and currently living in Sweden. You can read the dialogue Here.
BBC on Deaf Belgian twins
The BBC has a video report on the identical twin brothers in Belgium who died by lethal injection, reopening the euthanasia debate. Watch it here (no captioning).
Fed of Blind on Euthanized Deaf Twins
The National Federation of the Blind is speaking out about two deaf men who were put to death by lethal injection in Belgian after they began losing their sight. President Marc Maurer says:
"This disturbing news from Belgium is a stark example of the common, and in this case tragic, misunderstanding of disability and its consequences. Adjustment to any disability is difficult, and deaf-blind people face their own particular challenges, but from at least the time of Helen Keller it has been known that these challenges can be met, and the technology and services available today have vastly improved prospects for the deaf-blind and others with disabilities. That these men wanted to die is tragic; that the state sanctioned and aided their suicide is frightening."Read more here.
First Teacher of the Deaf
A Spanish monk in the 16th century named Fray Pedro Ponce de Leon is recognized by most historians as the first teacher of deaf children, though some experts point to Spanish painter Juan Fernandez Navarrete, who lived in the earlier part of the century and was himself mute. Ponce de Leon was a Benedictine monk who took a vow of silence and developed a form of sign language to communicate. He apparently taught finger-spelling to deaf children who probably arrived at his monastery already knowing some home signs.
Music for the Deaf
A Norwegian pianist and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra are trying to bring music to the deaf.
Al Jazeera’s Nick Spicer reports the story from Cologne, Germany in the video posted below on DeafNewsToday.com.
TEDx video on Sign
The video posted below on DeafNewsToday comes from TEDxAmsterdam 2012. Lissa Zeviar, a CODA and owner of a company focused on baby signing called Babygebaren in the Netherlands, is the speaker. Find out more about her company here.
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Vocabulary Study
Limited vocabulary is the greatest cause of reading problems among deaf children, according to researchers in the Netherlands. Karien Coppens of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has developed a vocabulary test to be given to elementary school students based on the results of her study. She found weakness in the vocabulary of deaf Dutch children is greatest when confronted by complex words that are long and abstract. Read more about the study here.
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