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Showing posts with label ASL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ASL. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
NEW American Sign Language Class Starting Soon
Sunday, April 11, 2021
New York Times: "Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign"
"On a recent afternoon in a brightly lit studio in Brooklyn, Mervin Primeaux-O’Bryant and Brandon Kazen-Maddox were filming a music video. They were recording a cover version of “Midnight Train to Georgia,” but the voices that filled the room were those of Gladys Knight and the Pips, who made the song a hit in the 1970s. And yet the two men in the studio were also singing — with their hands.Primeaux-O’Bryant is a deaf actor and dancer; Kazen-Maddox is a hearing dancer and choreographer who is, thanks to seven deaf family members, a native speaker of American Sign Language. Their version of “Midnight Train to Georgia” is part of a 10-song series of American Sign Language covers of seminal works by Black female artists that Kazen-Maddox is producing for Broadstream, an arts streaming platform."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/arts/music/asl-music-deaf-culture.html
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| Justin Kaneps for The New York Times |
Friday, January 8, 2021
"About 15% of adults in America report hearing loss, and about 1 million use sign language to communicate"
Enabling access to information for all is key.
"Saamanta Serna describes herself as a Coda – the child of a Deaf adult. She grew up up with a Deaf mother and a father who is hearing and an American sign language (ASL) interpreter, and later decided to pursue interpreting herself after high school.
Now a certified ASL interpreter, Serna has done frequent in-person interpreting for medical appointments during Covid. She has also noticed a change in the world’s perception of sign language since the beginning of the pandemic: more people are paying attention.
Conveying updated information to everyone in the time of Covid is a matter of life or death, as the Trump administration learned recently after losing a groundbreaking federal lawsuit to the National Association for the Deaf, which ensured that a sign language interpreter must be present in Covid briefings and visible on the live feed from the White House. The Trump White House did not include its first sign language interpreter on a Covid briefing until 11 November, a full nine months after the pandemic reached America."
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An article on Rupert Dubler who has been seen at many of Gov Baker's press conferences https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/04/17/rupert-dubler-asl-interpreter-baker
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| ASL interpreters (like Rupert Dubler) are present for Gov Baker's press conferences |
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