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Depends on how/why the quality is bad. Cluttered backgrounds are distracting but I those I can generally ignore. Ironically, those things are often the easiest to correct if the person making the video would just pay attention to their surroundings. Other issues such as poor lighting, ultra...

While it's a cool idea, I'd find making and posting ASL assignment frustrating. As someone who is into photography, I detest homemade/webcam videos, as their quality is typically quite poor. So I'd have a hard time submitting ASL assignments of myself knowing that it could be better if only I...

THIS ^ My daughter's ASL teacher was also a stickler for ASL signs only, no "English" signs. But the local Deaf community here freely uses initialized signs, probably even more than the "ASL" ones. Keep in mind that are most likely going to be regional variations that have nothing to do...

Sort answer is: "Deaf" is cultural, "deaf" is audiological.

A deaf Cuban, Russian, Irishman, and American were riding a train. The deaf Cuban suddenly gets up and tosses his cigar out the window. "Why did you do that?" the others asked. "It was a lousy cigar and we have plenty more where I come from" the deaf Cuban replied. Then the deaf Russian...

One road block for Sorenson-like devices is that they sometimes have difficulties with proxy servers and firewalls, both of which are common in businesses. The school where I work (as a computer technician) had one installed in the DHH classroom and took some work to get it functioning...

It's not just "you guys" (the Deaf). I'm hearing and I also think in pictures when it's something that I will be physically doing. That doesn't mean that I see myself doing every single step like a movie reel. Instead I picture/visualize the key steps that will get me to the end goal; no...

How did they test for the APD? And if you don't mind me asking, what type is it? In other words what symptoms do you have from it?

Generally speaking, asking what someone does for a living isn't considered rude in the US. It comes from an assumption that what a person does is in some way related to their interests and therefore can spur conversation. That said, Amy Lynne is 100% correct that in certain circles there's often...

Yeah, I was just going to say check your local Walmart. About 25% of them up here have a place that gives a free hearing tests. (The other 75% are optometrists)

It doesn't. The differences between ASL and BSL are more like the difference between English and Spanish. The whole language is different because ASL did not derive from BSL. In fact ASL is much more closely related to LSF (French sign language) because the first US Deaf school was patterned...

Here's the followup to the ban. School bus's sign language ban lifted | The Daily Beacon

At our school (where I work) we prefix the "middle school" sign in that video with the "F" hand because the school name is Farnsworth. But I don't know how common that is for other middle schools.

I hate to say this but sometimes parents like that never get it. Robert DeMayo in "See What I'm Saying" relates his personal story about trying to communicate to his mother while she was on her death bed. Even right at the end she couldn't understand why this "stranger" (the interpreter) was...

He would not have qualified to be an EMT in NY. NYS requires all EMT's to be able to verbally communicate with the patient and hospital (via radio) in English. :(

My daughter relayed a story about this to me. During her ASL (3rd language) comprehension test, she was writing the answers down in German (2nd language) instead of English (1st language). Fortunately she caught it before she handed it in to her ASL prof.

That's fine, but at some point you end up with such a small group it's all questions and no support because there's no one there who knows the answer. While this can happen in larger groups it's much more likely to happen in a smaller groups just through probability.

I don't think that was the point. Despite Apple being so well known they account for less than 15% of smartphone market and recently fell to less than 50% of the tablets in use. Although you can meet with any number of people you're taking a small population and making it even smaller by...

I don't find that odd. When I stopped in a gas station in Rochester, NY there was a sign taped to the counter "Cashier is deaf. Please look him when talking and speak clearly during the transaction."

That follows what I learned too. My first ASL teacher, who was a CODA and RID terp had one name sign when I was taking her class. Five years later I was telling someone who my ASL teachers were and used her name sign. The person had no idea who I was talking about until I fingerspelled her...