Order a copy for yourself, your friends, or family at DeafStore! Order now Sign language is recognized by our community as our lin- guistic foundation, intellectual portal, and social bond, and by the United Nations as a human right . . . but is still subjected to rejection, nonrecognition, and denigration by its foes.
Order a copy for yourself, your friends, or family at DeafStore! Order now This month’s cover story focuses on cyber-bullying—the use of bullying tactics of threats, hate speech, intimidation, applied to online territory. Their motive: to silence their victims. While some may consider online attacks a trivial matter, our community should take it seriously and …
Order a copy for yourself, your friends, or family at DeafStore! Order now The Youth Leadership Camp program, founded by Deaf advocates and leaders, recently celebrated its 50th anniversary at a comfortable and accessible camp setting in Pennsylvania. It has assuredly had profound and positive impact on our community, and the alumni had a great …
Order a copy for yourself, your friends, or family at DeafStore! Order now Of the cover illustration, Awet Moges tells us, “That is Oracle, the former Aztec goddess known as Malinalxochitl. She is the leader of team Pantheon, due to her expertise with artifacts and dominant personality. This page is from Volume III, in which …
Order a copy for yourself, your friends, or family at DeafStore! Order now Harlan Lane’s legacy encompasses the study of languageless feral children, language, Deaf genealogies, the early U.S. artist John Brewster Jr., and staunch advocacy of the Deaf community as a linguistic/ ethnic minority.
Order a copy for yourself, your friends, or family at DeafStore! Order now Eyeth, in contemporary Deaf Art usage, is an imaginary Deaf planet (Eye + th) where there are no communication barriers— in contrast with Earth (Ear + th, the planet of hearing people). Paul Scearce has fun playing with this theme; his work incor- porates ASL …
Order a copy for yourself, your friends, or family at DeafStore! Order now We honor James J. DeCaro for his many contributions to NTID and the Deaf community, with recollections by NTID President Gerry Buckley, long- time colleague Harry G. Lang, daughter Tate, and son Jason.
Order a copy for yourself, your friends, or family at DeafStore! Order now Before sensor gloves, non- signers who wanted to engage in face-to-face communication with Deaf people had to learn ASL, write notes, or depend on texting. We now have a number of prototypes and a few functional models. But we continue to have …
Order a copy for yourself, your friends, or family at DeafStore! Order now Cover story: The problem(s) with RID HPO: How do Deaf people argue? Deaf Person of the Month: Rebecca Giuntoli, model Stage Lights: Fountain Theatre’s Arrival & Departure, starring Deanne Bray and troy Kotsur Insider’s View: The German CI case—a disturbing development in an old struggle, …
Order a copy for yourself, your friends, or family at DeafStore! Order now During the pre-Civil Rights era, an African-American Deaf student could have a formidable struggle to get a basic education, then an advanced one—unless they could successfully “pass.” Hume LePrince Battiste’s story suggests the difficulties involved.
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