From FoxNow

Ogden theater debuts first ASL production of Newsies with three deaf lead actors

Posted: 9:51 PM, Feb 24, 2020
Updated: 11:51 PM, Feb 24, 2020
By: Elle Thomas

OGDEN, Utah - American Sign Language is taking center stage for the first time in the Beehive State with a first-ever ASL adaptation of the Broadway musical, "Newsies."

A dozen actors, ( Read more... )

“Disability simply means ‘Don’t diss my ability’.”

Tara Hayes, “Is deafness deafinitely a problem?”
Posted on January 6, 2018 on The Limping Chicken (“The world's most popular deaf blog! Lays eggs every weekday”)

The Limping Chicken is a Deaf* blog from the UK, which I just found today. How it got its name.

* We [i.e., American Deaf people**] use ( Read more... )

From Atlas Obscura

Inside the Mumbai Deaf Community’s Unique Public Transit Culture

The city’s rail system offers deaf riders special compartments that double as bustling meet-up spots.

As the anthropologist Annelies Kusters explains in a recent paper in the Journal of Cultural Geography, for deaf Mumbaikars, a commute in the HC isn’t just getting to ( Read more... )

1. SIGN-HUB FEAST Conference, September 1-2, 2016: Programme
( I'm a sign linguist, retired but still interested! )

From Eurekalert!, Science news from the AAAS (American Academy for the Advancement of Science)

9-Nov-2015
Danish researchers pioneer comparative research on sign language
How many sign languages are there in the world? How many people use them? How are they structured? How strong are they, and what are the attitudes of the users (and others) to their ( Read more... )

(hat-tip to
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I just saw this 2011 article, in following
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Just a couple of days ago I got an announcement about a talk to be given last night at Swarthmore College, which is a half-hour drive or less from my office & from my house:

HISTORY OF SIGN LANGUAGE LECTURE:
Dr. Elena Radutzky will present on “Italian Sign Language and How it has Changed over Time.”( more of the announcement )

This weekend I'm at a conference at Swarthmore College, DEAF Across the Curriculum. Oddly, of the 25-28 participants I'm the only hearing male ( Read more... )

Folks, please sign and share this petition to the White House--widely!  Facebook, family, friends, etc.  Only 2,000 1,818 more needed and it can be done!  Thank you!!

For more than a hundred years, American Sign Language (ASL) has been persecuted as a "lesser" language. It is a homegrown and complete language that has survived efforts to wipe it out ( Read more... )