21 days ago by Mark

On Friday the Speech-Language Department launched the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) club at the Department for Social Welfare Standards. The club seeks to provide all AAC users with a forum for discussion as well as the opportunity to interact with other AAC users, both locally an ...

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21 days ago by Mark

On Friday the Speech-Language Department launched the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) club at the Department for Social Welfare Standards. The club seeks to provide all AAC users with a forum for discussion as well as the opportunity to interact with other AAC users, both locally an ...

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42 days ago by sarahschipper

A research project of Neva Cherniavsky, University of Washington The goal of the Mobile ASL project is to compress sign language video so that deaf users in the USA can communicate via cell phone. While the deaf community has welcomed new technologies such as the Blackberry and other PDAs, it is cum ...

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47 days ago by dsobsey

7 October 2009- Ontario, Canada Augmentative Communication Community Partnerships CANADA (ACCPC) and Justice Canada have teamed up to produce a great new resource on the use of alternative forms of communication in the courts. While this resource is was created specifically for the Canadian context, ...

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56 days ago by sarahschipper

The term calligraphy usually evokes an image of beautiful writing and lettering. The series in Jolanta Lapiaks photocalligraphy body of works called Photospeaking and/or Photowriting inspects the notion of calligraphy and deconstructs this notion. “a splendid flash of concrete poetry”, Photospeaking ...

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56 days ago by sarahschipper

What´s your name? My name… I can´t write it down anymore. My first name looks like I´m putting something into my hair and saying my name without voice (very important!). My last name looks almost like I´m rowing, also combined with saying my name without voice. This time in our class in DGS (German ...

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56 days ago by sarahschipper

That`s what my first talk with a deaf person looks like. Actually looks like! In the long run, it would cost a big amount of paper and pens, and lost of patients to communicate that way. Lots of details get lost expressing yourself by writing down what you want to say in a conversation, but to look ...

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60 days ago by sarahschipper

Thats what Sprachlos/Speechless looks like in german sign language (DGS). I took pictures with the software of the “Wörterbuch der deutschen Gebärdensprache”. I´m not sure if the whole sign is recognizable in these pictures.

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65 days ago by designabilities

We learned some more interesting aspects about sign language in our latest class in DGS (German Sign Language). One aspect was the grammatical setUp of subject-object-verb (in difference to german grammatic). That means, a typical sentence would be built like that: Student – Mathematics – Learning ( ...

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71 days ago by designabilities

We learned some interesting aspects about sign language in our latest class in DGS (German Sign Language). One aspect was the determination of different mimics in different context (e.g. question, doubt, command,…). On the bottom of this post you find an excerpt of the list (in german). Besides we l ...

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