Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Deaf community creates its own language

In this isolated traditional community a form of inherited deafness has been passed down from one generation to the next for the last 70 years. As a result, an indigenous signed language has sprung up, evolving among the deaf villagers as a means of communication. But what is so striking is that many hearing villagers can also speak it.

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Amazon Unbox Videos Have No Captions or Subtitles

As a Deaf technology geek, i love my tivo, unfortunately its disappointing to find out that closed captioning isn't provided on the Amazon Unbox service. Please bring attention to the lack of consideration by the large corporations for the deaf and hard of hearing population! Not just for Amazon but for movie theaters nationwide....

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