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El Deafo Series on Apple TV+
Back in 2014, we highlighted a childrens’ graphic novel, ” El Deafo”, created by Cece Bell, to highlight her own superpowers (strengths) when navigating the world as a child with hearing aids. We love El Deafo as a rare depiction of our childhood selves, navigating the hearing world as speaking deaf children while addressing the
Deaf Students In Medical Fields Need Strong Clinical Leads
In a recent online lecture, “A Deaf Surgeon Comes Into His Own: Insights for Improving Outcomes with Hearing Loss,” Seattle-based ENT consultant Chad Ruffin, who wears bilateral cochlear implants, shared the challenges that surfaced in his time in the medical field – compounded by the internalized ableism mentioned by many deaf entrants to competitive workplaces.
Masks Stymie Deaf Professionals
Mask wearing, during covid 19 times. A hot topic, with science showing the way for most. But how do professionals who’re deaf, navigate a true challenge to their professional competence? The Paediatric (Pediatric) Doctor Hundreds of HCPs in the UK NHS happen to be deaf, @DocFizzabella among them. Since March 2020, shortage of accessible PPE
Ava’s Live AI Captions Make Videocalls Accessible
AvaScribe, which live captions in-person conversations, is moving into the desktop and web app space with $4.5 million in funding. In the videocall space, Ava’s captions have an edge over platforms like Google Meet and Microsoft Teams with built-in accessibility. Transcripts are saved after videocalls, for review and re-use. Each speaker has a colour label,
Videoconferencing Auto-Captions
Multitudes of people have pivoted since spring 2020 pushed us all into video-calling with family, friends and colleagues, on the fly. Live Captions Keep You Connected Meryl Evans, a marketer who wears cochlear implants, wrote, “The Best Automatic Captioning Tool For Videocalls“ Literally, the tech firms are innovating videocall platforms at speed to stay relevant,
Reconfiguring Cochlear Implant Services For Covid Times
The CI Futures Forum summer 2020 webinars from the Global CI Collaborative, a group of global leaders in hearing and cochlear implant care, explores how covid-19 is catalysing innovation in care pathways, ENT surgical processes and telehealth channels. Reconfiguring CI Services: the new ‘normal’ was on July 22, with Katherine Bouton, a CI wearer, seeing
Classroom Captions At RIT Get AI Assistance
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) – hosting the National Technical Institute for Deaf students (NTID) – is optimising its realtime lecture captions with help from Microsoft. With deaf student demographics shifting to realtime captioning, by 2016 the number of lecture-captioning hours at RIT grew by 58% to 24,335 – up from just 15,440 hours in
Five Questions: Ruben Ramanathan, Supply Chain Management Technology
Ruben Ramanathan will soon graduate from Purdue University in Indiana and is eyeing a career in the automotive industry. Since he was little, he has had a real passion for automobiles, and aspires to work for Honda or Mazda as a purchasing agent or buyer. 1) The biggest struggle being the only deaf person in my family is that I
Captioning 101 For The University Context
Realtime live captions support a broader range of attendees at university and college-hosted events like classes, sports events, guest lectures, theatre performances and student commencements at a more cost-effective price, according to UniversityBusiness.com. The problem with using ASL as a blanket solution for [deaf students] is that many hard-of-hearing students don’t know sign language. Now hearing-impaired
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell