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View the video clip of Dummy Hoy here: http://www.signsofthetimemovie.com/
Due for release on the History Channel in April, 2008.
Also see this link re: the filming of The Silent Natural: Dummy Hoy
http://www.dacorpictures.com/Dummy%20Hoy.html
TextNet provides interactive communication with TTY devices. That is often the only way that students or parents with hearing or speech disabilities can talk with faculty or administration regarding the student’s educational situation or progress.
Why was this created? Calls are not easily transferred and often the parent or student cannot talk with educators or administrators. According to the FCC, school systems that are using voice menu and IVR telephone systems have created barriers* to TTY access even through TTY relay services.
TextNet makes telecommunications accessible to TTY users even if the school is using telephone equipment or technologies like voice menus, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), or Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP)
TTY telephone calls that originate on the telephone system are routed through thetelephone switching center onto the school system’s LAN or WAN. TTY calls are received and/or originated on the appropriate PCs. No additional hardware or networks are required.
Teachers and students can now easily communicate visually in an instructional classroom. Students are able to view lessons and digitally record their responses. Each student’s work can be saved in a LAN folder, reviewed, and assessed by the instructor at any time. http://www.sansinc.com
Camfrogis a free software program that allows live audio and video conferencing. Users can view photos and profiles of other members, keep a "friends" list to see who is online, and conduct video, audio and text chats with individual or multiple users at once. Camfrog works with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Apple MacOS X. Website: http://www.camfrog.com/
Serial: Overland monthly and Out West magazine.
Title: Virgil Williams's Art Notes to a Deaf-Mute Pupil [pp. 285-294]
Author: D'Estrella, Theophilus
SHOW ME Deaf Festival: Sept. 27-29
St. Louis, Missouri
Did you know you can access the NYC public library electronic resources because you are a resident of NY state? Go to this link and sign up http://www.nypl.org/books/cards.html
See the listing of databases you can access. http://www.nypl.org/databases/index.cfm?act=2&j=home
You can also access the NOVEL NY library site http://newyorkonlinevirtualelectroniclibrary.org/index.php
You have access to electronic resources for free once you set up an account. All you need is your public library card, New York driver license, or non-driver ID. Students may also access the NOVELny databases through their school or academic library.
A new blog showing videos of the deaf child mythology story by Charles
Katz http://blog.deafread.com/thedeafchild/
See his blog Spirituality of Being Deaf http://blog.deafread.com/visma/
Jane Norman has created an outstanding website dealing with the arts.
http://www.thedeaflens.com/
NCDHR-Rochester Prevention Research Center is a CDC funded center for health promotion and disease prevention research in the deaf population through community participatory research.
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/ncdhr/
This is a bibliography of resources recommended by this group. The library has most of these books in our collection.
https://www.ntid.rit.edu/VPandDean/soa/pages/resourcesbib.html
View music videos performed by deaf artists. http://www.d-pan.com/index.html
Article about D-PAN
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070713/ENT01/707130400
From Al Smith:
NTID is making changes to its VRS policy. Effective immediately, all NTID students, faculty, and staff may choose their own VRS service provider. You will be able to choose the provider that best meets your needs for video relay services.
In announcing this new direction, NTID’s goals are twofold:
To provide each deaf/hard-of-hearing student, faculty member, or staff member free choice in determining their VRS vendor.
To provide an equal opportunity for each VRS vendor to market their products/services at RIT/NTID. Vendors will need to follow the requirements listed below.
A list of known VRS providers is at the end of this message. At this time, you may choose to use any of these services. These providers are now permitted to contact and market directly to you.
Any questions should be directed to Steve Campbell, Director of Technology Support Services at NTID, at sscncs@ntid.rit.edu or by phone/VRS at 585.475.7049.
We are also developing a plan for providing hearing students, faculty and staff at NTID with a person-to-person video communication option. This will allow them to communicate directly with deaf/hard-of-hearing students, faculty members, staff members or people external to the institute who have VRS equipment. The plan will be ready for distribution on or about September 1, 2007.
From Stephen Campbell:
All stand alone video conferencing equipment needs to have a dedicated network connection versus attaching the camera (webcam, via video, etc.) directly to the computer where it uses the network connection the computer uses.
Prior to contacting the relay provider for equipment, please check your office to ensure there's an available data jack. If there is, contact the NTID Help Desk 5-2200 to confirm its activation status. The Help Desk will send someone with test equipment to check its status.
If it is active, we will provide you with a few pieces of information you'll need to provide the installer (jack number, active status, subnet). If the jack is not active, your department chair will need to approve a $100.00 charge to have the jack activated. Please allow at least 5 business days to have the jack checked and activated. If there isn't an available jack, then one will need to be installed and activated. The installation cost including activation is approximatelty $300.00. Please allow at least 10 business days for the installation and activation.
As soon as the data jack is ready (installed and active), contact the NTID Help Desk and you will be provided with the information that can then be provided to the relay provider to schedule a time to set-up the equipment.
- If/when you have problems with your videophone (other than dlink dvc-1000 videophones provided by NTID) you should contact the relay provider directly. If they assess the problem to be anything other than with thier equipment, they will contact the NTID Helpdesk to assist them with diagnostic testing.
As we continue with this new relay provider model, we will continue to update everyone to ensure the process is as efficient as possible for all parties involved. Please let me know if you have questions or comments.
PROGRAM PROVIDER If using a WEB CAMERA If using a VIDEO PHONE
AT&T AT&T www.attvrs.com ATTVRS.TV
CAC (also know as SPANISHVRS.TV) CAC www.cacvrs.org CACVRS.TV
CSDVRS CSDVRS www.call.csdvrs.com
Federal Relay Sprint www.federalvrs.us FEDRELAY.TV
Hamilton Relay VRS Hamilton www.hamiltonrelay.com HAMILTONVRS.TV
Hawk Relay Hawk Relay www.hawkrelay.com HAWKKRELAY.TV
HOVRS Hands On www.hovrs.com HOVRS.TV
i711.com GoAmerica www.i711.com I711.TV
IP-Relay Verizon www.ip-vrs.com TV.IPVRS.COM
LifeLinks (also known as SpanishVRS.com NoWaitVRS.com) Healinc Telecom LLC www.lifelinksvrs.net 69.18.207.166
My-Relay Nordia/NexTalk www.myrelay.com MYRELAY.TV
Snap! VRS Snap! Telecommunications Service Not Available Ojo Phones use: 711; Other phones use: callsnapvrs.com
Sorenson VRS Sorenson Communications CALL.SRVRS.TV CALL.SVRS.TV
Sprint VRS Sprint Webcamera: www.sprintvrs.com SPRINTVRSVCO.TV
Hearing Callers: 877.709.5776 SprintRelay.tv
Vco.sprintrelay.tv
Espanol.sprintrelay.tv
URrelay URrelay.com www.URrelay.com URRELAY.TV
Viable VRS Viable Technologies www.viable.net VIABLEVRS.TV
Need assistance in finding a book? Using interlibrary loan? Finding a journal? finding a database?
Check out these brief 3 minute Captivate tutorials via http://library.rit.edu/tutorials/
Global Reach Out Initiative, GRO, provides a global step to the world’s young deaf role models to come together to realize the potential they hold.
This is an exciting opportunity designed for young deaf role models from two nations to come together and establish a cross-cultural experience through means of interaction, workshop building, leadership skills, and communication barriers.
From DeafWeekly:
A new website that allows two-way text messaging from the Internet to any U.S. or Canadian mobile phone launched last month. http://www.text4deaf.com/ is powered by MobileSphere’s Joopz web texting technology and features two-way web texting, mobile chat, group broadcast, text reminders, scheduled texting, SMS forwarding and voice mail greeting. The free basic service allows up to 10 messages to be sent each month; premium service costs $2.95 per month (or $19.95 per year) and allows unlimited text messages to be sent while providing access to all Text4Deaf features.
Friday, July 6, 2007
Senator Joe Robach announced today that legislation he sponsored in the State Senate designed to improve the delivery and development of services for New York’s deaf, deaf-blind and hard-of-hearing citizens was signed into law by the Governor. The bill, which passed unanimously in the Senate, was sponsored in the Assembly by Assemblyman Joe Morelle and also passed unanimously in that house.
Senator Robach said, "I was proud to sponsor this bill in the State Senate and to have fought for its passage. This new law will provide a discussion focus on the delivery of comprehensive services for medical, housing, transportation, technology supports, personal care, family supports, and day programs for the deaf, deaf-blind and hard-of-hearing."
Robach said the legislation (S.1923-A/A.2461-A) establishes the Interagency Council for services to persons who are deaf, deaf-blind and hard-of-hearing. This Council will include State agency representatives and people with hearing loss and will have numerous functions toward improving services provided to people with hearing loss. The Council would be responsible for maintaining data about the needs of deaf, deaf-blind and hard-of-hearing and making policy recommendations to the governor and legislature.
Robach added, "The Interagency Council will work to identify the needs of these individuals and will establish a more efficient matching of these needs to State resources. The fact that the council will consist of members from the hearing impaired community will ensure that these services are responsive to their special needs."
http://www.senatorjoerobach.com/press_archive_story.asp?id=17414
Interesting theater featuring deaf blind performers.
Self directed tutorials are available at these links:
http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/
Check out the services you can get from Google Mobile! You can browse Google, get directions, satellite imagery and live traffic on draggable maps so that you can find local hangouts and businesses across town, text message your search query to 466453 ('GOOGLE' on most devices) and we'll text message back results, use gmail and view utube videos, view photos, your calendar, the news, blogs, newsfeeds, post your blog entries, and more.
You need to register your mobile phone number with Google to use these features. Go to http://www.google.com/mobile/
Amazing resource on deaf characters in literature (all levels). The link is here: http://pajka.blogspot.com/
View and listen to children's animated ebooks via http://kids.nypl.org/reading/Childrensebooks.cfm
Info from Alice Hagemayer:
Please visit Oviatt Library of the University of California - Northridge (CSUN) through its website about the History Through Deaf Eyes exhibition that was coordinated by Mara Houdyshell
http://library.csun.edu/About_the_Library/Previous_Exhibitions/deafeyes.html
Also please visit http://www.csun.edu/~patrickb/Dept/DH/DG.html
for a tour of the library exhibition that was curated by Dr. Larry Fleischer, Chair of the CSUN Department of Deaf Studies. This exhibition is awesome, the public - deaf and hearing --outside the CSUN should have acce ss to it!
ADA RESTORATION ACTION CENTER
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After years of being weakened in the courts, Congress is coming to the rescue of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the bipartisan civil rights protections signed into law in 1990. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI)will introduce the ADA Restoration Act of 2007 on July 26, the 17th anniversary of the ADA. This vital legislation will restate and clarify the intent of Congress in order to keep the promise of the ADA. Please take action now to encourage members of Congress to sign-on and pass this legislation which was drafted with the support of a broad coalition of disability organizations.
Contact Congress http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/adawatch/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6722&t=roadtofreedom.dwt
Click the link above to tell your representatives in Congress to sign-on to and pass the ADA Restoration Act and keep the promise of the ADA.
Sign the Petition http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/adawatch/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=589&t=roadtofreedom.dwt
Click the link above to show your support for passage of the ADA Restoration Act. We will distribute the petitions to Congress and the media.
Tell Your Story http://roadtofreedom.org/cs/the_faces_of_disability/tell_your_story
Click the link above to tell your story about disability discrimination, how the ADA has helped you or how the promise of the ADA is still unfulfilled. We will share these testimonials with Congress and the media.
Get On the Bus http://www.roadtofreedom.org/cs/home
Click the link above to follow the Road To Freedom: Keeping the Promise of the ADA, our year-long, cross-country bus tour promoting the restoration of the ADA. Freedom bus Check out the tour schedule, read the blog and view photos of our journey so far covering more than 12,000 miles, 28 states and 45 bus stop events.
Background:
Seventeen years ago, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with overwhelming bipartisan support. However, in recent years, a number of Supreme Court decisions have significantly reduced the protections available to people with disabilities in employment settings.
Courts are quick to side with businesses and employers, deciding against people with disabilities who challenge employment discrimination 97% of the time, often before the person has even had a chance to show that the employer treated them unfairly.
Indeed, courts have created an absurd Catch-22 by allowing employers to say a person is “too disabled” to do the job but not “disabled enough” to be protected by the ADA. People with conditions like epilepsy, diabetes, HIV, cancer, hearing loss, and mental illness that manage their disabilities with medication, prosthetics, hearing aids, etc. -- or “mitigating measures” -- are viewed as “too functional” to have a disability and are denied the ADA’s protection from employment discrimination.
People denied a job or fired because an employer mistakenly believes they cannot perform the job or because the employer does not want people with disabilities in the workplace are also denied the ADA's protection from employment discrimination.
ADA Watch and the National Coalition for Disability Rights
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20004
202-415-4753
jimward@ncdr.org
From Dean DeRusso
people who are interested in being appointed to the Interagency Council should send a letter indicating their interest and a copy of their resume to:
Governor's Appointments Office
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
This is the first time the State has experienced this. And, they need 8 s erious and strong leaders who can serve our state well and make some laws happen within 3 years from now to better server our Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf-Blind New York State Citizens. Please don't be shy to ask some important leaders who you feel are qualified to apply!
For more information about the bill and duties of the 8 people can be found at below link:
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S01923&sh=t
https://library.rit.edu/theghostmap/book/about-author.htmlThe link for resources related to Ghost Map is here: https://library.rit.edu/theghostmap/node
Reading Guide is here: https://library.rit.edu/theghostmap/book/reading-guide.html
The Ghost Map chronicles the development, spread and containment of the cholera epidemic in 1850’s London. Think about some current epidemics we are dealing with such as AIDS and the Avian bird flu.
The following info is from the Gallaudet Biography Database http://liblists.wrlc.org/deafbiog/home.htm and Harry Lang's book called Silence of the Spheres (3rd floor, Q175.5 .L34 1994). Explore some of the deaf bacteriologists who made significant discoveries in the field.
There are scientists that have been Nobel Prize winners. Charles Henri Nicolle, a French deaf scientist discovered that typhus which was an epidemic is caused by lice. He eventually won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1928 for this work (the first deaf person to win a Nobel Prize). He also made other important discoveries in the spread and control of epidemic diseases. References: Harry, Lang and Bonnie Meath-Lang. Deaf persons in the arts and sciences, p.276-278; Lang, Harry. Silence of the spheres, p.107-108.
Interestingly enough, there is a connection with cholera and a deaf scientist by the name of Clyde S. Jones. He was the first deaf person to earn two doctoral degrees (public health and MD). He became interested in experimental work on cholera and perfected a serum for diphtheria. crusaded against impure milk and helped raise cleanliness standards in the dairy industry. References: Lang, Harry. Silence of the Spheres, p.104.
Anthony A. Hajna was one of the nation’s authoritative scientists in enteric bacteriology, designing lab procedures for identifying epidemic type forms of bacteria. He spent many years researching techniques to accurately and quickly identify epidemic type bacteria especially thouse found in spoiled food and contaminated water. References: Lang, Harry and Bonnie Meath-Lang. Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences, p.166-168; Lang, Harry. Silence of the Spheres, p.105; American Annals of the Deaf, vol.85 no.2, March 1940, p.152; Digest of the Deaf, vol.1 no.3, Dec. 1938, p.20-22; Silent News, May 1992, p.21; Deaf American, June 1967, p.3-6.
Check out our library and web resources on epidemics. For example, there are books on epidemics such as When germs travel : six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed (3rd floor,RC111 .M226 2004), Global epidemics (3rd floor, RA649 .G56 2007), ebooks such as Epidemics and pandemics: their impacts on human history (http://albert.rit.edu/record=b1995338), Credo Reference to find encyclopedia articles, short biographical excerpts, Nobel Prize Winners in Science, and more. There are Nobel Prize websites such as http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1928/nicolle-bio.html,and Wikipedia articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nicolle.
Think about what life was like in the 1850s in England and in America for deaf people.
Harry Lang informed me of a link about Nobel Prize Deaf Scientists - http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/WorldAroundYou/science5.html
He also informed me of this: The Edmund Booth book has info from his diary re: cholera during his six month journey on the Overland Trail in 1849 (2 pages). You can read those pages online here: http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rit/Doc?id=10081788&f00=te
The book is also available 4th floor, HV2534.B64 L35 2004
There is a video where Harry Lang discusses deaf scientists. Deaf scientists: Their invisible roles in history of ASL and Deaf community which can be found on the 4th floor, HV2373 .H37 1998.
Maureen Barry mentioned that there are short videos about The Ghost Map in Ideatools. Contact Maureen at mxbldc@rit.edu for more info.
Captioned video clips are now available at: https://library.rit.edu/theghostmap/book/about-author.html
There is an interesting interactive public health discovery game called "Outbreak at Watersedge," http://www.mclph.umn.edu/watersedge/
Another interesting microbiologist from the Gallaudet University Library Biography database http://liblists.wrlc.org/deafbiog/home.htm
NAME: Vernon, Edith Goldston
NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: American, Native American (Choctaw)
OCCUPATION: Factory worker, Printer, Research microbiologist, Biologist, Scientist
SUMMARY: Deaf at age 4 1/2 from scarlet fever and an operation for mastoid infection. Lost her mother as an infant; her father committed suicide when she was about 15. Lived on an Indian reservation, uneducated, with her father until age 10, when she went to the Oklahoma School for the Deaf. Upon graduation, attended Gallaudet College but dropped out after a year to marry Charles Hillior (also deaf). Worked in a rubber factory during WWII and put her husband through college on her earnings. However, he had an addictive personality and, after being brain-damaged from an opiate overdose, shot and killed himself. Meanwhile, Edith had attended a vocational school and learned printing, working in that field until Charles' death. Returned to Gallaudet College for another year and while there met and married her second husband, McCay Vernon (q.v.). Transferred to the University of Texas, then graduated Colorado College in 1958 as a laboratory technician. M.S. in microbiology from Loma Linda University and Medical College, 1965. Worked in original research on the genetics of bacteria in Chicago. Later, in Illiois, did nutrition research, and back at Loma Linda researched treatments for tuberculosis. Worked as a clinical microbiologist in CA and MD, becoming head of a hospital laboratory. Taught microbiology at Gallaudet College, 1979-1980, and had also taught in the Oklahoma and Arkansas schools for the deaf. Died from cancer.
SOURCE(S): Step Into the Circle, p.30-33.