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.

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.

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.

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.

Former Purple video interpreter (Gina) shares perspective on Maria-Datastar-Purple subject from Ryan Commerson's Blog at: http://signcasts.com/node/260.

From my educational information; I can't give legal option which you need to consults with your attorney about it; I learned that we, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, need to do something about ‘early intervention' with local and federal entities. It’s about “[t]he term refers to providing appropriate services for the child with hearing loss, including nonmedical services, and ensuring that families of the child are provided comprehensive, consumer-oriented information about the full range of family support, training, information services, communication options and are given the opportunity to consider the full range of educational and program placements and options for their child.” Such provision quoted from www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/browse.html, not from the bill.