What matters deafness of the ears, when the mind hears?

January 24, 2007

American Library Association announces literary award winners

Filed under: Education

Something close to my heart - books! More precisely, an award-winning book about a deaf boy who forms a band. 

Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody the artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences

“The Deaf Musicians,” written by Pete Seeger and poet Paul DuBois Jacobs, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons wins the award for children ages 0 to 10.
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Link to the book itself on Amazon.com.

 

Millions Of Us Are Going Deaf And Our Computer Won’t Help Us

Filed under: Technology

A fellow Mac user laments the dearth of captioning online. So do I!

We need to lobby for this and, erm, most of us non-Yankees will probably leave it to the folks in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave to do so for the rest of us deaf Earthlings. :P

Notice that there is no captioning for YouTube. Or Quicktime. Or any video media on the computer. Even many of your favorite movies played on the Mac do not have adequate captioning, since that service is farmed out to transcribers who are not all that interested in captioning every word, and who sometimes get the words wrong. But Captioning could be done automatically for you by your Mac - if the software were available to do so.

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