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Personal Signaler (Deaf & Blind)
Personal signaler for the Deaf/Blind
For use with the AME-AM-6000 or the AME-AM-100
Vibrating notification and tactile pad for deaf/blind users
Provides notification for all alerts from the system
Receive pages from the unit inside or outside of your home
Mfg: Clarity. Mfg No: AMEAMPXBAM5

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Perspectives of a Deaf Muslim

Since losing my hearing at the age of nine(9) and at the same age I was taken out from an Arabic/English School I used to go to in Kumbungu in the northern region of Ghana to a School for the deaf in Savelugu as in the Northern Region. There I learned to use sign language more often than spoken language because then I was living several miles away from my family Fortunately, most of what I have learned while being a hearing had not been lost, I can still speak my native language with fluency and remember vividly all that the times with my friends.

Going to MSA meeting at RIT with an interpreter and I was hoping that one day one deaf brother or sister would start something that I can consider worth taking part but that never happened. Until I was about to graduate, then I remember my assurances to deaf Muslim that one day I will use my expertise to get interpreters. I tried to fulfill my words with them knowing that I may be back in Ghana some day, I with friends started Global deaf Muslim Literacy aims at getting Deaf Muslims educational resources and other logistics, a big dream I have longed to see, with that done, going home would give me time to focus on my own future. read more

Welcome: Lions are grateful for community's support

Welcome Lions Club members are grateful to the community for their support at the buffet breakfast last Saturday.

The community is encouraged to continue helping the club recycle used eyeglasses, hearing aids, computer cartridges and cell phones. In addition, the club collects Campbell Soup labels, which are sent the North Carolina School for the Deaf to get computer programs and other school supplies. These items can be given to any club member or placed in the recycling boxes at LSB TheBank in Welcome read more

Arrow Rock State Historic Site to feature art exhibit

Arrow Rock State Historic Site's visitor center is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily and is located on Highway 41 in Saline County. For more information, contact Arrow Rock State Historic Site at (660) 837-3330 or the Missouri Department of Natural Resources toll free at 1-800-334-6946 (voice) or 1-800-379-2419 (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf). For more information about state parks and historic sites, visit the Web at www.mostateparks.com.

For news releases on the Web, visit www.dnr.mo.gov/newsrel. For a complete listing of upcoming meetings and events in the state park system, visit the online calendar at www.dnr.mo.gov/calendar/parkssearch.do. read more

Sorenson Communications Establishes Four New VRS Interpreting Centers

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sorenson Communications™, the leading provider of Video Relay Services (VRS) for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use American Sign Language (ASL), has opened four new Sorenson Video Relay Service (Sorenson VRS®) Interpreting Centers in major cities in the United States and in Puerto Rico. Since January, centers have been established in the following locations: Columbia, SC; El Paso, TX; Santa Rosa, CA; and in Puerto Rico, a location that will provide additional numbers of trilingual VRS interpreters who are fluent in ASL, English, and spoken Spanish.

Sorenson VRS enables deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use ASL to communicate with hearing individuals through a qualified ASL interpreter via a videophone, high-speed Internet connection, and a standard TV. The free video relay service empowers deaf individuals to connect with hearing individuals in real-time, and the opening of additional VRS centers makes it possible for calls to be processed more quickly, resulting in shorter wait times for callers.

“Establishing new VRS Interpreting Centers in diverse locations is one of many ways Sorenson Communications is demonstrating its commitment to the interpreting needs of the deaf community,” notes Chris Wakeland, vice president of interpreting for Sorenson Communications. “These new facilities allow Sorenson Communications to locate and employ the highest-quality, professional interpreters in regions that, until recently, have not had centers.” read more

An old friend testifies

Marvin Denney, who is deaf, testified through sign language interpreters.

Denney told the court he and Roberto Torres, who is also deaf, and who is following the trial through the efforts of two sign language interpreters who sit opposite him at the defense table, both worked for the National Park Service at the Amistad National Recreation Area.

Denney testified he has known Roberto Torres for 24 years and that he has known Jaime Torres for at least 20 years. read more

Thieves Strike Fort Worth Church For The Deaf

(CBS 11 News) FORT WORTH The New Life Deaf Fellowship Church in east Fort Worth provides a place of worship for 125 hearing disabled people across North Texas.

Randolph says there's only so much the church can do. "Where there's a will there's a way," he told us, in sign language. "If people want to break in they're going to. What can we do? We can do nothing. I can't sleep here, can't watch it all the time. If it happens it happens."

Despite the break-ins, Pastor Randolph and his members say their faith will prevail. "What bothers me the most is someone broke into the church building. But we know that God will take care of us, he will provide, he will help us. Then we're okay. He helps us." read more

Graham: 'It's all about the children'

TALLADEGA ?Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind is in the middle of a flurry of construction projects, and according to AIDB President Dr. Terry Graham, all about the children.

Rogers visited Helen Keller School Tuesday to talk to the AIDB Board of Trustees about $200,000 in funding for a new program to train interpreters for the deaf, which has been approved by the House of Representatives and now goes to the Senate. The program would be a cooperative effort between AIDB, which has resources to provide the training, and colleges and universities around the state, which would give college credit to students who take the course.

Including the nine regional centers situated throughout Alabama, AIDB serves more than 12,000 blind and deaf people, with about 400 residential students ?3 years old and up ?living on-campus at ASD, ASB or Helen Keller School. E.H. Gentry vocational school and Alabama Industries for the Blind round out the full-service program provided in Talladega to the blind and deaf by AIDB read more

Deaf seminarian opens lines of communication

Ghislain Cheret Bazikila, a Catholic seminarian and native of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, decided to spend the summer in Toledo because he wanted to work for a diocese that does not have a deaf priest.

His first goal, he said, was to get to know and serve the local deaf community, whose home parish is St. Pius Church on Ilger Avenue in West Toledo.

"Sometimes hearing priests forget the needs of the deaf community, but a deaf priest would know," he said.

He hopes that by spending the summer in Toledo, he will help encourage more young deaf Catholics to enter the priesthood, and that more local priests will be inspired to learn American Sign Language. read more