So I got the webcam working with via Yahoo earlier this evening. Woot! I only had to sacrifice two goats…
The webcam seems pretty choppy for ASL, though. I’m going to google around and see if that can be improved, we’re both using cable and should be able to do better than […]

Had an interesting email conversation a few days ago with and thought I’d put the gist of it here…
jcortese: I can get behind the idea that you can’t treat all deaf kids/adults the same way, because there isn’t the same level of hearing in all of them.  Like you said, HAs work great […]

Hi, all. I was thinking, there must be dictionaries that are ASL->English, that is, that let you look up the English meaning of a sign. There’s plenty that are the other way to look up the ASL sign for an English word. But half the time I spot a new sign I […]

I’m pretty pleased with my progress in ASL and while I have a long way to go, it’s interesting to see what a long way I’ve come. Example, I passed along the Deaf Ninja video to a friend of mine, on the assumption that the pantomimes were enough to get the story across, and […]

Spotted this article this morning: Trials for ‘bionic’ eye implants
Sounds like it works on the exact same principle as the cochlear implant (although I can’t tell from this whether it destroys residual vision in order to do so). It does say it only applies to specific types of blindness.
I think it will be interesting […]

I had this question in one of my comments which has me curious, too. Since I’m not a fluent much less native signer, I don’t know the answer:
Ooh, you know what I’m wondering about now — what are accents like in sign languages, from one to the other? You know how spoken languages have […]

I’ve been watching this video on cued speech and I must say I’m quite ambivalent.
On the one hand, it blows all the other codes I’ve seen out the water. And it actually assists in lipreading. I mean, it’s seamless. It works with the phonetics and words, and if you don’t quite pick […]

Just stumbled, courtesy of and , across the Nicaraguan Sign Language issue. It sounds absolutely fascinating: Here is an article from NY Times (”A Linguistic Big Bang“), plus some further discussion by ozarke on her journal. There’s any number of fascinating aspects to this, but to summarize, deaf children in Nicaragua have […]

I always keep an eye out for tips like this: I don’t use mac but perhaps some of you do and would find this a pretty neat (and quick) tip for getting ALL alerts to flash instead (as opposed to program by program)… Do More With Alert Sounds

Pulling a few thoughts together today. Last night I went with a friend of mine to a coffee shop to meet up with other Deaf and signing people. Both of us are basically rank beginners with ASL although we’re both pretty quick linguistically. I had the most amazing and fun evening, and […]