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Imagine Cup Winners
A groups of students from Ecuador have won a Microsoft Imagine Cup Grant. They designed Skillbox, which helps deaf children by translating audio from a teacher in a classroom into sign language. A wireless headset captures the sound and sends it to a computer for translation. The team will get $75,000 to develop the technology using Microsoft products. The four winning teams were announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland where Bill Gates met with the team captains.
The winners were chosen out of 50 applicants. A video introducing Skillbox is posted below on DeafNewsToday.com (no captioning).
Arabic Sign
Here's a video for those interested in sign language around the world. It was shot at the Al-Amal 22nd Camp in the city of Sharjah, along the coast of the United Arab Emirates. Camp participants finger spelled some names and places.
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The Koran in Sign Language
The Conservation of the Holy Koran Society in Jordan has spend 5 years putting together DVDs of the Koran sign language. There is a BBC video report posted here. (no captioning)
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Sign Languages as Endangered Languages
Participants from 21 different countries gathered in Norway for a four day conference sponsored by the World Federation of the Deaf on the topic of “Sign Languages as Endangered Languages”. Read about the discussion of myths about the deaf and questionable educational strategies as well as access a video from participant Dr. Joseph J. Murray here.
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