Anyone feel like listening to some music that's joyful, buoyant and upbeat as we head into the weekend? Here's PJ Sin Suela for @npr's Tiny Desk. The proud Puerto Rican rapper, doctor and author exudes enthusiasm and smiles, accompanied by vocalists, flute, piano, trumpet, tenor sax, guitar, bass and more. PJ is the first artist to incorporate a sign language interpreter (Alexssa Hernández) into a Tiny Desk show. We're sharing this link with everyone we know.
Link: https://flip.it/K9ubzG
Happy #NationalASLDay! 
Dive into the transformative impact of signing characters in media on deaf children's language learning.
Grate interview - on Science Friday: 'How Signing Characters Help Deaf Children Learn Language' https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/deaf-sign-language-learning-media/ #ASL #Inclusion #DeafEducation #LanguageLearning #MediaRepresentation #DeafCommunity #InclusiveMedia #LanguageDevelopment #DeafAwareness #Inclusive #Education #MediaInnovation #LanguageLearning
An ASL interpretation of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like" us from the Super Bowl Halftime show.
https://www.youtube.com/@DeafiesinDrag
Tell your representatives that you support the Americans with Disabilities Act and providing d/Deaf people and Hard of Hearing people with ASL interpreters at EVERY government communication.
Want to learn? Awesome! Thank you.
I'm learning BSL (when I'm not increasingly sick -- wear your mask please) cuz I live in the UK.
If you live in the USA, then https://www.lingvano.com/asl/ and
https://www.queerasl.com/
A contact of mine (from #YACF ) has drawn up a webpage as an attempt to explain a few key things about deafness, hearing aids and 'hearing as a deaf person' in the hope it will help deaf and hearing people understand and communicate better and more kindl
https://barakta.org.uk/deaf_tips.shtml
It includes a lot of extremely useful information and advice - give it a read. You don't know when you'll next meet someone with hearing difficulties.
Vanessa Vlajkovic is a subeditor at ABC News. She's also Deafblind, here's how she does her job
Vanessa Vlajkovic has been working two days a week for ABC News Digital, editing articles and advising on how to make our content more accessible.
#AXSChat #WeAreBillionStrong #DisabilityRights #a11y #accessibility #DeafBlind #DeafCommunity #Diversity #SDGs #Equity #Equality #Technology #Disability
"I am a CODA, a child of a deaf adult, which, I guess, makes my mother a COHA, a child of a hearing adult. Two actually," says stand-up comedian and writer Moshe Kasher in his new book, "Subculture Vulture." LitHub has published this extract, in which Kasher discusses deaf history, language and education. "The decisions of people with zero experience in the deaf world, who have never really thought about deafness in any way, shape the future of the deaf, again and again," he writes.
“Any hearing improvement I would call a total win, and getting patients to moderate hearing loss is remarkable,” says Lawrence Lustig, a physician at Columbia University who runs studies of hearing treatments. “As a first step, this is huge.”
Hard agree. This is so cool.
Deaf since birth, some children in China can hear after gene treatment | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/27/1082551/gene-treatment-deaf-children-hearing-china/
I attended my first Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)'s Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) Working Group meeting yesterday.
We talked about what our group can do to help support Deaf and HoH folks at conferences, at jobs, and how do we spread awareness so we feel more included in tech spaces. I am excited to be a part of helping tech be more inclusive.
Link to yesterday's meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpnEbEHsz8k #deaf #DeafCommunity #DeafAwareness
