People who have no link to the hard-of-hearing community — no deaf relatives, friends, acquaintances, coworkers — might assume music and poetry have no place in the world of the deaf. Both art forms ...
The first line of “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley is about as arresting as they come in the English language: “Out of the night that covers me/Black as the pit from pole to pole/I thank whatever ...
Two Bulgarian friends, one of whom grew up with deaf parents, have launched an online video series with sign-language interpretation of poetry and films. It's meant to raise the visibility of the deaf ...
As productions increasingly include characters and perspectives from a variety of backgrounds, deaf and hearing people who translate the shows for deaf audiences are trying to keep up. By Ilaria ...
Recent poetry books of note: INDEX OF WOMEN, by Amy Gerstler. (Penguin Poets, paper, $20.) Gerstler’s witty collection channels various characters — the tooth fairy, a lost doll — to celebrate “shrewd ...
Post written by François Grosjean. All language scientists have a wow moment in their profession. Mine was when I was introduced to sign language and to the world of the Deaf. I was simply overwhelmed ...
Tiffany McCray (left) teaches American Sign Language at the Southern Methodist University. She is working on a proposal for the school to offer a minor so that students can become more fluent in ASL ...
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