MetaFilter posts tagged with deaf

If rhythm be the food of love, play on

iamkimiam — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:12:44 -0800

The ASL Shakespeare Project brings us Twelfth Night, fully translated into American Sign Language (ASL) "American Sign Language (ASL) has often been called "kinetic sculpture," fusing movement and gesture to articulate language in space. With artists and scholars increasingly turning their attention to the representation and translation of gestures, this project joins two distinctly different cultures: the hearing world, with Shakespeare as one of its greatest poets, and the visual/gestural language of the Deaf." Peter Novak, project director for the ASL translation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, has devoted over a decade to this endeavor. Be sure to fully explore the main link to the ASL Shakespeare Project, where you can learn about some of the challenges* involved in an ASL translation, including homonyms, staging, songs and vernacular. Also, the Resources section contains a multitude of links, even lesson plans for students of ASL or Shakespeare, or both! Also, more from the Yale project page: Verse and Classifiers. *Click on Project, then Challenges (on the left sidebar)

Deaf People and World War II

lullaby — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:08:18 -0800

Deaf People and World War II is an NTID project collecting videos, books, articles, links, etc., about the experiences of deaf Europeans, Asians, and North Americans during the war. Some samples: David Bloch, an article on a deaf artist who spent two years at Dachau Exodus, a deaf woman's story of her family's escape from Austria Ernest Ikeda, a short clip of a deaf man's experience as a kid in Japanese-American internment camps Survivor testimony of deaf Hungarian Jews Warning: some of the video players used on the site are less than great, but still worked in the few different browsers I tried.

Signs of very cool.

prefpara — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:47:40 -0800

Maybe I'm crazy, but this seems to be a very cool effort by a sign language interpreter to include the hearing-impaired in the Gnarls Barkley lyrics experience. Too bad it's not on youtube anymore... however, other ASL interpretations of popular songs are still available.

Evelyn Glennie talks about music and deafness

aisforal — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:10:07 -0800

Evelyn Glennie speaks at TED. Don't know her? Visit her site.

Cursing is associated with the limbic system.

vapidave — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:11:09 -0800

Physicians reported a deaf man with Tourette's who used sign language to spell out obscenities during fits of coprolalia. Tragically and hopefully this gets us closer to understanding how your brain processes language.

Visual Comedy

fearfulsymmetry — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:44:14 -0800

Have you heard the one about the deaf comedian? John Smith is Britain's only BSL (British Sign Language) stand-up.

Little Hands - Documentary Short

chimaera — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:32:01 -0800

"Little Hands offers a glimpse into the lives of a group of deaf children at a Danish 'fritidshjem,' a recreation centre where they meet after school."

A fascinating short documentary, approximately 17minutes.

Waffle, meet Splasher. Splasher, this is Waffle.

The corpse in the library — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:17:16 -0800

"My name is a combination of 'take photo' and the letter 'C' for Charlie. How on earth do you pronounce that, you might ask. Well the answer is you don't. You sign it."

ASL Videos

alms — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:11:24 -0800

American Sign Language Flash Video Dictionary is a high quality, free dictionary with a huge number of signs. It includes specialized dictionaries of religious signs, conversational phrases, and ASL for babies. Unfortunately it's not possible to link to specific signs, but if you look inside you'll find words from "Abbreviate" to "Zoom" and phrases such as "I cannot fasten my belt," "has he been neutered?" "I already took a bath," "are you married?" and "I need a better firewall."

singing/signing - a different sort of cover song

jessamyn — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:58:14 -0800

Popular: It's Like That, Humble Neighborhood, Son of a Preacher Man, Beautiful, Barbi Girl, Truly Madly Deeply, I'm Alive
Indie: Blister in the Sun, Across the Sea, Tom's Diner, Zombie; Classics: The Rose (more, also without lyrics), Revolution, Hotel California
Rap/Hip Hop (some comedic): Baby Got Back, Ice Ice Baby, Music (more), Paul Revere, Grillz, White and Nerdy, Where'd You Go
Non-English songs: Film Dust, Comme Elle Vient; Pseudosign: Torn (again), Sweet Home Alabama
Instructions: general tips, religious songs, and how to sign "rock & roll"

"YouTube gives them an easy, expressive, unmediated channel for many-to-many communication."

amberglow — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:50:37 -0800

DEAF...i'm deaf, by kunosher, and just one of a growing group of videos on youtube created by the signing deaf. Many more here--from the personal to the political to videoblogs to deaf poetry jams to the news .

Google Video, now with captioning

joeclark — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:42:05 -0800

Selected videos with closed captioning Self-uploaded videos aren’t just for hearing people anymore. A small number of videos on Google now have captioning. You can create your own caption files, albeit laboriously.

Deaf Radio

pithy comment — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:30:08 -0800

The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU 88.5FM in Washington DC is interviewing the outgoing and incoming presidents of Gallaudet University (previously) today. Gallaudet is a liberal arts college and graduate school for the deaf. Deaf and hearing-impaired persons will be able to fully participate in the conversation and 'listen' to the radio show live as the station is providing real-time captioning on-line and via HD-radio.

"Deaf Enough"

bardic — Tue, 09 May 2006 10:14:20 -0800

Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. is a liberal arts college and graduate school for the deaf (there's also a high school and primary school). In 1988, Gallaudet students protested when a hearing person was chosen as university president, and until today, I. King Jordan has served. Recently, a new president was chosen--Dr. Jane K. Fernandes, the school's Provost, who was born deaf but grew up speaking thanks to new therapies and technologies. A varied, vibrant student body never afraid to make their "voices" heard has spoken (with photos). Last night, so did a majority of the faculty, but Dr. Fernandes says she will stay.

Deafness in disguise

madamjujujive — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:32:12 -0800

Concealed hearing devices of the 19th and 20th centuries. Great images in this delightful exhibit of wacky yet charming devices like auricle headphones, dentaphones, concealed beard receptors, barrettes, jewelry, hats, and acoustic chairs.

A movie about the deaf, but not for the deaf

mantid — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:36:31 -0800

A movie about the deaf, but not for the deaf Thought-provoking piece in the LAVoice: "Since I am deaf myself and require subtitles in order to watch films, we contacted the Nuart to make sure that the film was subtitled; I couldn't find anything on either the theater’s website or the distributor's website that indicated the film was subtitled. Much to our dismay, we were shocked to learn that the film - a movie about a deaf person - would not be subtitled ..."

That's a lot of hands that... can't hear.

brundlefly — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:57:32 -0800

The Thousand-hand Bodhisattva dance is performed by 21 deaf, Chinese dancers. (NLTH: "Not Literally a Thousand Hands") Via octopus dropkick

The birth of a [sign] language

y2karl — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:02:44 -0800

Experts Study New Sign Language System A new system of sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua may hold clues about the evolution of languages. When the country's first school for the deaf was established in 1977, children were not taught sign language but developed a system of signs to communicate. Childhood learning may determine linguistic rules ...They found that older students used hand signals resembling the gestures employed by hearing people, mimicking the entire event physically. But younger pupils - who had interacted with other deaf children from an early age - used a more complex series of signs. They split the scene into component parts and arranged these sequentially to convey the incident. The constructions resemble the way words and sentences are built in verbal languages, using segments structured in a linear fashion. This indicates that way the younger children learnt the sign language helped reshape it according to these linguistic rules.
............... Fascinating... /Mr. Spock

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky and the neuronaut's guide to the science of consciousness

y2karl — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:57:32 -0800

We are because of others. We are born into this world with minds as naked as our bodies and we have to rely on others to feed, clothe us, and to teach us to think of ourselves as selves. The key is language -- grammatical speech and human culture build upon the brain's biological capacities to create a mind that is something different again than that with which we are born. We are conscious because we can speak to others and ourselves, because we can speak of ourselves to others and ourselves. Language gives us as individuals, memory, and as groups, culture, the social memory. Or so thought Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, among others. Welcome to the the neuronaut's guide to the science of consciousness.

William Ellsworth “Dummy” Hoy

kirkaracha — Tue, 13 May 2003 12:57:05 -0800

William Ellsworth “Dummy” Hoy was the first deaf Major League baseball player. He played in four major leagues, hit the first grand slam in the American League, stole 82 bases in his rookie year, and was the first outfielder to throw out three runners at home plate in one game. He's the reason for umpires' hand signals. Gallaudet University dedicated its baseball field to him. There's a campaign to get him inducted in the Hall of Fame (here's his stats.) [via The Baseball Crank]

Gamers with disabilities

WolfDaddy — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:33:45 -0800

Deaf Gamers is a terrific resource containing electronic game reviews with the hearing-impaired in mind. Digging a little deeper, I found a still-in-work but promising Gamers With Disabilites FAQ hosted by Gone Gold. We all love to play games and the resources contained herein will hopefully help us all play better. Any other resources out there that you'd like to share?

Hard of Hearing Radio

atom128 — Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:08:59 -0800

Hard of Hearing Radio (warning: link goes fullscreen AND has popup windows. but it's worth it, really!) is a Canadian radio program targeted at listeners with mild hearing loss, that aims to "challenge the assumption that broadcast media should be tailored only to those with a flawless ability to perceive it's content." The site contains lots of high quality mp3s of broadcasts as well as some articles about the subject and links to related topics. Recommended listening for fans of bands like Sigur Ros, Godspeed You Black Emperor, labels like Constellation, and readers of FakeJazz. Quite possibly might also be enjoyed by those who smoke a lot of . . . Yeah. So for those deaf folks out there, what do you listen for in music? What are your favorite genres and groups?

wackybrit — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:01:31 -0800

Prejudice! Deaf student turned down for place at Oxford University! Every year we have stories about how students were turned down for places at Oxford and Cambridge (the Yale and Harvard of the UK). The argument usually revolves around elitism, and that not enough state educated students are accepted into the top universities. This year, the story is of deaf student, Anastasia Fedotova, whose mother believes Oxford has discriminated against her daughter for not letting her in. And this just in, thousands of other parents are also claiming their able-bodied children have also been discriminated against. Oh, why can't those heartless admissions staff just accept every applicant!?

dwivian — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 08:02:07 -0800

Deaf culture has taken an interesting twist. Never mind the issue of lesbian's with kids, which is too emotionally charged anyway. What do we make of people that intend to bring about birth defects?
the women cannot be sure whether Gauvin is -- as they hope -- deaf.

mdn — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 19:35:37 -0800

Sound and Fury is an award-winning documentary about deaf culture and the debate over cochlear implants (playing at 10 tonight in CA). It's a fascinating look into the strength of identity, and also the way that human cultures commonly derive from shared difficulties.