Netflix’s coming-of-age documentary “Audible” had its world premier this week at Hot Docs Film Festival, Variety reports. The film follows Maryland School for the Deaf high school athlete Amaree McKenstry and his close friends through their senior year. The film’s executive producers...
When Sarah Tubert was three, a surgeon severed her facial nerve, paralyzing the right side of her face and taking out her hearing in an operation. Today she is an actress, Captain of the USA National Deaf Women’s Volleyball team, and a signer of songs, with her latest a collaboration with...
250,000 clear face masks are to be delivered to front-line National Health Service and social care workers, the UK government has announced. NHS and care workers will be given the masks to help them communicate with people with conditions like hearing loss, autism and dementia. The masks are...
Like many deaf people, Sara Novic found frustration when she arrived to get her Covid-19 vaccination. “Though thousands of people filtered through this site each day, there was no sign language interpreter anywhere to be found,” she wrote for CNN.com. “Verbal cues ran the entire...
A commercial aired during the 2021 Oscars generated nearly as much buzz as some of the nominees, San Diego’s NBC 7 reports. The Google ad features a pair of grandparents who are deaf using various pieces of technology to communicate amid the pandemic, keeping up with their baby grandson....
It all started in a room in Paris, where sound designer Nicolas Becker and director Darius Marder sat in silence, CNN reports. The room was an anechoic chamber, designed to swallow noise. The two were preparing for “Sound of Metal,” a film about an American rock drummer and recovering...
In 2017 Congress passed legislation that would let anyone buy hearing aids approved by the Food and Drug Administration without a prescription from an audiologist, Shira Ovide reports in The New York Times. The F.D.A. has missed a deadline to release draft guidelines for this new category, but...
On a recent afternoon in Brooklyn, Mervin Primeaux-O’Bryant and Brandon Kazen-Maddox were filming a music video, The New York Times reports. They were recording a cover version of “Midnight Train to Georgia,” but the voices that filled the room weren’t theirs. The sound came from Gladys...
Lured by the promise of winning a fortune in a “deaf lottery,” an elderly, deaf Connecticut man sent scammers $51,000 in late February, the Hartford Courant reports. Local police are working with the FBI and law enforcement in other states to collar the con artists behind what is now a nationwide...
TikTok has announced the launch of a new feature designed to make its app accessible to people who are hard of hearing or deaf, Tech Crunch reports. Today the company is debuting auto captions. When enabled, the feature will automatically transcribe the speech from a video so viewers can read...
Godzilla vs. Kong marks the feature film debut of Kaylee Hottle, an 8-year-old deaf actress who plays Jia, an orphaned girl who has a strong bond with Kong. Kaylee comes from an all-deaf family and the movie is her first feature film, Hollywood Life reports. Co-star Alexander Skarsgard learned...
Research at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has found that expert sign-watching behavior is already present in babies by about 5 months of age. Researcher and Assistant Professor Rain Bosworth and alumnus Adam Stone studied early-language knowledge in young infants and children by...
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