This is a weekly roundup of national and international news articles about Deaf individuals and Deaf-related events and concepts. The aim is to give a slightly Deaf perspective on the journalism and story. This week: Purple Communications, Ohio and the Deaf Jurist Situation, autocaptions on youtube, and ASL poetry nights in Brooklyn.

Students at the California School for the Deaf-Fremont praise YouTube's new autocaptioning feature. To find more information about this feature, check out Youtube's offical announcement at their blog.

Video from FCC regarding their new VRS policies. This video was originally posted on the FCC website. You can go there for text copies of the news release and the ruling itself. Or go to their Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) page for more details about all their TRS regulations.

Please note that this, like all government publications, is in the public domain. This means that you are free to share this video as well as other information that the FCC provides directly with others without regard to copyright.

Apologies for the lateness - technical difficulties and a day job! This is a weekly roundup of national and international news articles about Deaf individuals and Deaf-related events and concepts. The aim is to give a slightly Deaf perspective on the journalism and story. This week: looking at the Rhode Island layoffs, rapists at Kings County, linguistics developments, and the Olympics.

Wisc Interpreter Licensure Bill (SB-389) was passed without amendment. Joe Riggio explains the details.

2/22/10 Weekly News and Coffee Roundup

This is a weekly roundup of national and international news articles about Deaf individuals and Deaf-related events and concepts. The aim is to give a slightly Deaf perspective on the journalism and story. This week: the Viable VRS scandal, closed captioning in Maryland bars, Cochlear corporation and associated news, and more fake deaf people - this time in international film.

This is a weekly roundup of national and international news articles about Deaf individuals and Deaf-related events and concepts. The aim is to give a slightly Deaf perspective on the journalism and story. This week: Deaf Schools, Videophones, the Super Bowl, and other isssues.