Cool Stuff For Blind, Deaf, & Non-Verbal People

VIDEO [CC] - Cool Stuff For Blind, Deaf, or Non-Verbal People.



Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, demonstrates unique products that help people with disabilities.



Filmed at the Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference in San Diego, California. Directed/Edited by Ben Churchill - http://youtube.com/RadioTripPictures

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Harpo

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Caption Call

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AbleNet

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The Blind, The Deaf and The Mute - Short Film

VIDEO [CC] - The Blind, The Deaf and The Mute - Short Film.



A filmmaker's career hangs in the balance as two bums acquire something new. Watch with headphones for best experience. Written, directed, produced, shot and edited by Max Ding.



Starring:

Will Crabb - Kai Crabb

Khanh Nguyen - The Boy

Kenton Reeder - Charliey

Tony Nguyen - Terry

Madiyar Snazell - Receptionist

Sam Wen Hua Huang - Sam Wen the Producer

Gareth McCrum - Gareth McCrum the Host.

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Deaf-Blind Diver Defies The Toughest Odds

Deaf-Blind Heather diver defies the toughest odds.



Heather Lawson is possibly the first Deaf-Blind person in Australia to go scuba diving, and one of only a few in the world to have done so.



The 54-year-old Frankston adventurer, who was born Deaf and gradually lost her sight (as have two of her siblings), has skydived and bungee-jumped, climbed rocks and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, flown in a hot air balloon and skied over snow and water.



Scuba diving has long been on her bucket list. Last week she spent an hour in the shallow waters of Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary, thanks to a support team of seven including her Auslan tactile interpreters and local dive instructor Mike Letch, founder of the Disabled Divers Association.



Ms Lawson was tethered to a scuba hose, her tank floating separately so she could explore and sign freely. She held starfish, kelp and sea urchins as interpreter Bill Hynes also Deaf, and a qualified diver described everything to her in water up to three metres deep and 200 metres offshore.



Mr Letch said later that Ms Lawson's perception of her surroundings was incredible to witness.



"She was so much more in tune with a whole lot of stuff going on than the rest of us," he said. "She's super switched on, super intelligent. We want her to become a regular next year, now that we know how it can be done."



Back on shore, Ms Lawson - her grin as wide as the harbour bridge she climbed - declared the experience "amazing". "I wish I was a seal, then I could stay in the water all day," she said. "I was pretty nervous before going in, but it was incredible. I was so determined to breathe properly and ignore the waves. ...Read more: http://www.baysidereviewlocal.com.au/story/1351254/blind-deaf-diver-defies-the-toughest-odds/?cs=1473



Gallery: Deaf-blind Heather scuba-diving:

- Click here for our picture gallery of Heather's big dive

$5.75 Million Settlement Awarded To Deaf & Blind Students

VIDEO: $5.75 Million Settlement Awarded to Deaf and Blind Students Sexually Assaulted by Gang at Hawaii Public School.



HONOLULU - A young girl is forced to perform oral sex on an older boy while he films her with his cell phone camera and students at their school look on, another young girl becomes pregnant after she is raped by a male student at her school, a young boy is sodomized in the bathroom by an older student, but school administrators don’t penalized the perpetrator, another child is sexually assaulted by five boys on campus, and nothing is done to stop them or punish them after the fact.



These are not scenarios from an NBC’s Law and Order: Special Victims Unit episode, they are actual events that parents say took place at the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind, the state’s only public school for children with these disabilities.

For more than a decade, some of the school’s administrators and students covered up a terrible secret young children between 12 and 16 years old were being terrorized - robbed, raped, sodomized and even gang raped on campus and on the school buses – not by employees, but by other children. There are just 80 children enrolled in the school, which is located on the edge of Waikiki, Hawaii’s main tourism hub, and just across the street from the Honolulu Zoo.



One student heading a gang calling themselves the “Ringleaders” orchestrated the attacks, and students were ordered to participate as attackers or retaliated against.



Michael Green is one of five attorneys who successfully secured a $5,750,000 settlement last week from the state and a school counselor. ... Read more: http://www.hawaiireporter.com/5-75-million-settlement-awarded-to-deaf-and-blind-students-sexually-assaulted-by-gang-at-hawaii-public-school/123



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Deaf and Blind: NDCS Family Story

VIDEO [ASL/CC] - Documentary film: My child is Deaf and Blind: NDCS family story.



Parents Kevin and Jane tell us about life with their Deafblind son Gethin, including why they have taken up rock climbing! Find out how to make activities accessible for Deaf children:

Visit http://www.ndcs.org.uk/me2 for more information.

Song: Sidewalk by Jason Shaw http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/SIDEWALK



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VIDEO [CC] - Deaf-Blind Awareness: Committing suicide over going Deaf and Blind.



The story of my progressive vision loss. What will I do when I become entirely blind?



Life has unbounded possibilities. There's no good reason to deny the opportunities that come your way as you grow out of your comfort zones.



Deafblindness may be the result of different etiologies. But there are many strategies for apapting to Deafblindness and being able to life to the fullest.



Many believe Deafblind means total deafness or blindness and this is often not the case.

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The two men, 45, from the Antwerp region were both born Deaf and sought euthanasia after finding that they would also soon go blind.



The pair told doctors that they were unable to bear the thought of not being able to see each other again.



Facing blindness, two Deaf twin brothers elected to commit assisted suicide in Belgium via lethal injection. This assisted suicide case is unusual - neither man was terminally ill nor suffering unbearable pain. Read more: Deaf Twin Brothers Voluntarily Euthanized