Schuyler Sisters in ASL | YouTube – ASL Theatre
This is an ASL interpretation, student project of select songs from “Hamilton.”
Aspen Camp
For over 50+ years, Aspen Camp has served thousands of deaf and hard of hearing children and youth across the country at its modest camp 17-acre riparian environment nestled along the Snowmass Creek near Aspen, Colorado.
Aspen Camp is 15+ acre riparian forest nestled along the Snowmass Creek situated 7,582′ above elevation in the Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado. With six programming facilities, Aspen Camp is the only year-round camp serving the hearing loss population and the sign language community.
Founded in 1967 by Reed Harris, Tom Sardy, and Lt. General William Martin along with support from the Pabst family and the Aspen Rotary Club. Aspen Camp continued to prosper, hosting well over 25,000 campers and families on its modest campground.
Deaf people as interpreters ‘shifts the world’ | bbc.com
Interpretation is a cornerstone of communication for deaf people who, without that real-time translation, may not be able to follow all that is being said.
But deaf people do not only benefit from interpreters, some wish to themselves provide the service to deaf communities, assisting in environments and scenarios where otherwise communication may prove challenging.
Now it is hoped a £600,000 research project – conducted in part by the University of Wolverhampton – will “shift the world”; allowing deaf people to receive training and boost employment opportunities in the field, and in turn, assist wider deaf communities to seek multiple professions.
“It’s quite nice to suddenly get a big lump of money,” said Dr Christopher Stone from the university, who will lead the three-year project alongside professors at the University of Toulouse and the University of Berlin.
Part of the work will explore differences between the UK, France and Germany in how deaf people help others understand what is being translated.
CSD Awarded $250,000 to Improve Virtual Healthcare for Deaf ASL Users | citybuzz
Communication Service for the Deaf, Inc. (CSD) has been granted a $250,000 Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award to spearhead a groundbreaking project aimed at improving virtual healthcare access for Deaf American Sign Language (ASL) users. The two-year initiative, set to run from November 1, 2024, through October 31, 2026, seeks to address the unique challenges faced by the Deaf community in accessing telemedicine services, which have become increasingly prevalent since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The project, titled ‘Building Capacity for Deaf American Sign Language Users in Virtual Healthcare PCOR/CER,’ will be led by CSD’s health and patient advocacy division, DeafHealth. It aims to form a national Deaf Patient Coalition, bringing together diverse stakeholders to capture and analyze Deaf patient experiences with virtual healthcare platforms. This coalition will play a crucial role in shaping future patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) focused on healthcare virtual platforms for the Deaf community.
Allysa Dittmar, MHS, Vice President of DeafHealth, will serve as the project lead. The initiative will be supported by Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), with Dr. Tiffany Panko, executive director of the Deaf Health Care & Biomedical Science Hub and director of the Deaf Health Laboratory at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, providing leadership.