VIDEO [CC] - The Rider On The White Horse in ASL by John Graham.
The video producer by John Graham also known as Deafire, who is Pastor of New Life Deaf Church in Ontario, Canada. Deafire shared on YouTube social networking for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community about The Rider On The White Horse in the biblical ASL storytelling.
Some the most intriguing passages in the Bible can be found in Revelation chapter 6, a chapter dealing with events that occur during the Tribulation period of human history. Revelation 19:11-16.
The video producer by Joshua Beckman also known as vlogger posted on YouTube social networking for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community. This vlog in ASL storytelling of the Deaf Schools and education the community.
You care about Deaf schools right? Well I too, care about the Deaf schools.
Did you know that many of those schools endure hardship? What struggles are there, you might ask? Lack of moral support from the government, community, staff, administration, teachers, parents. Support is naught and hard to find. There are funding constraints as well.
Now you are watching me in disbelief. Worrying, disappointed; feeling angry, frustrated, heart-wrenched. Me too, I am in the exact same boat as you are.
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What can the Deaf community do to help? There is a solution… but it is not an imminent fix. They are as following:
1) All Deaf schools must have at least 75% Deaf people working there. What I meant by 75% is, for instance: chefs, landscape maintenance workers, custodians, teachers, education assistants, staff, support staff, administration et cetera. All positions available must be at least 75% employed by Deaf people.
With that being said, the system itself must change first. How? We, the Deaf people take initiative with the due process.
2) The names of the Deaf schools themselves must change.
It all boils down to the word ‘for’ inside the name of the school. It bears a negative connotation. Essentially it means a population for you [hearing people] to serve, and to provide support. The word ‘for’ is archaic. Why don't we use Deaf schools instead? More positive. That term is a direct reflection of the Deaf community
We decide. We control. We govern and modify policies accordingly. Not them, hearing people. The government workers must no longer be in such position with power. Again, we decide. Doing so, we all must collaborate together, collectively.
VIDEO - Jonathan Lamberton, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's sign language interpreter, is getting a blizzard of attention for his highly animated ways that were on full display during recent weather briefings.
NEW YORK CITY - As New York Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a speech warning New Yorkers of the impending megastorm, that is about to drop 3 feet of snow on the city, he was totally upstaged by a theatrical sign-language interpreter who was standing next to him and translating de Blasio's warnings into American Sign Language (ASL).
You won't be able to take your eyes off this guy once you hit "play."
VIDEO [CC] - Thanks to special technology, 14-year-old Maggie Gleason can now hear. But the really remarkable thing is that she's hearing with her brain, not her ears.
CLEVELAND - Maggie Gleason, 14, who was born Deaf, heard sound for the first time in her life when hearing specialists at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center turned on an innovative electronic device called an auditory brainstem implant (ABI). The implantable device provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly Deaf.
Maggie was born without cochleas, the small snail-shaped bones in her inner ears which house the auditory (hearing) nerve. As a result of her condition, she had no auditory nerve. Maggie had to wait for a technology like ABI to advance to a stage where it could help her. ABI bypasses the ear and stimulates the brain stem.
According to one of her surgeons, Maroun Semaan, MD, of UH Case Medical Center, Maggie may be the first teen with this device for absent cochleas.
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"For someone who has never heard, the perception and awareness of sound is extremely helpful," said Dr. Semaan, Director, Otology, Neurotology, and Balance Disorders at UH Case Medical Center and Associate Professor, Otolaryngology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
ABI is a prosthetic hearing device that stimulates neurons directly at the human brainstem, bypassing the inner ear and hearing nerve entirely, which in Maggie's case, did not even exist. The device consists of a tiny radio receiver implanted underneath the skin and tiny platinum electrodes implanted into the brain stem. ... READ MORE: http://usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/01/30/teen-hears-brain-ears/
VIDEO: Top 10 Super Bowl Commercials 2015 - The funniest and best ads compilation all in one place.
Super Bowl XLIX ads took viewers on an emotional rollercoaster, prompting tears and laughter in equal measure.
Many of 2015’s most high-profile spots were indeed released days or even weeks before Super Bowl Sunday, and while there were certainly some shockers that premiered during the game itself, the majority of this year’s most critically-acclaimed ads had already hit YouTube well before kickoff.
Social reaction during the game indicates that the ads of Super Bowl XLIX sent viewers on more of an emotional roller-coaster than usual, prompting tears, laughter and thousands of confused tweets at every commercial break. Enjoy to watch the top 10 Super Bowl commercials 2015 all in one place!
The best Super Bowl commercials of 2015 in order of appearance in the video including closed captioned:
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO [CC] - National Anthem ASL Signer Treshelle Edmond at Super Bowl XLIX.
PHOENIX, AZ - A Deaf actress Treshelle Edmond from San Bernardino, California, ASL Interpretation of the National Anthem was live broadcast on the NBC Sports.
The PepsiCo's sponsorship of the American Sign Language artist performance of the National Anthem and America the Beautiful on the NBC Sports at Super Bowl XLIX in University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale Arizona.
Treshelle Edmond's statement quote: "I want to thank everyone who are supporting me for this awesome experience! Especially to Amy and @NAD1880 ! I hope you all will enjoy this amazing performances and the game! #DeafTalent #sb49."
VIDEO: High-Definition quality video of a little Deaf girl (Sami) and Santa (Richard Attenborough) signing in ASL "Miracle On 34th Street" scene.
Miracle On 34th Street (1994) - In the scene, a young Deaf girl is brought to sit on the lap of Kriss Kringle at the fictional Cole's department store. Kringle (Richard Attenborough), who hasn't been told of the child's disability, asks her what she would like for Christmas.
After her mother informs him that her child is Deaf and that all she wanted was to sit on Santa's lap, Kringle summons his seasonal powers and begins a sign-language (ASL) conversation.
The stoic girl is transformed on camera with a delighted, surprised smile, signing back her answers, much to the tearful surprise of her mother and more than a few audience members.
As it happens, there is something even more touching about the scene: It is acted by 5-year-old Sami Krieger, the second of three Deaf children born to Jay and Linda Krieger, both of whom are also Deaf.
In the living room of their modest duplex in Hanover Park, a middle-class suburb of Chicago, Sami fidgets in her father's lap, grappling with a temporary case of acute shyness, while her sisters Amanda, 6, and Wanda, 1, look on.
Jay Krieger, with the help of a sign-language interpreter, says of making the film, "The experience was wonderful, really great. The (John) Hughes (production) people treated Sami like royalty, giving her a trailer with a star that had her name on it, which made her feel special," he says.
"My wife had mixed feelings about it, and so did I at first, but if she decides to do something like this again, I think that would be fine with us."
Sami, all warmed up for her interview, signs: "It was really fun being in the movie. Being with Santa and seeing all those toys was the best part," though it was "hard," she says, to pretend it was Christmas in the middle of a sweltering Chicago summer.
"I wish I could have pretended it was Easter, because that's my favorite holiday," she says.
In the original, it is a Dutch war orphan who pays a magical visit to Santa, who instinctively knows her native language and sings to her in Dutch. Hughes rewrote the script, substituting a hearing-impaired child.
"When I read the scene with the Deaf girl," says Mayfield in a phone interview, "that represented the reason why this movie could be remade in relation to a more modern view of the world. And I think this had to be an honest moment iit would only work with a real Deaf girl, who probably never sat on Santa's lap... Read More: Sami and Santa, 'Miracle's' Mutual Admiration Society-LATimes
The video producer by John Graham also known as Deafire, who is Pastor of New Life Deaf Church in Ontario, Canada. Deafire shared on YouTube social networking for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community about The Rider On The White Horse in the biblical ASL storytelling.
