NTID Blog

Check out how SignSpeak is experimenting with sign language avatars using AI. You can ask a question in sign language and it responds in sign language. 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/victoria-flanders-202961108_deaftech-asl-aiconversations-activity-7232906324601122817-wMBN?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Want to learn more about how to teach with AI? Check out this eBook. 

Check out the NTID Alumni Museum (The Street) link. 

The updated link for the InterpNET has been updated.

We have a collection of popular manga and graphic novels. Some are listed in this InfoGuide. We also have Deaf Characters in manga and graphic novels, such as Echo. Alaqua Cox (who is a speaker during Brick City events this year) is a Native American Deaf actress. She was in a breakout role as Maya Lopez/Echo within the Marvel cinematic universe.

Diane Castle interviews Dr. James Marsters, a deaf orthodontist and dental surgeon. Dr. Marsters discusses the time before deaf people had access to telephones and his desire to develop telephone communication for the deaf. Together with Bob Weitbrecht and Andrew Saks, Marsters developed the first acoustic coupler for teletype communication. This video is captioned. https://youtu.be/X7vO29FOc_c?si=mkQXOFg41c4ZoC6C

Hey Listen videos—33 have been digitized (thanks to Patrick Smith) and are posted on the library YouTube site. This was a tv program hosted by Jackie Schertz. She interviewed guests on various topics related to the deaf community. This may be of interest to Deaf Studies, ASLIE, and LEAD classes. The playlist link is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9AVA9M35m5s0LsiyJB0jJBQ5-YzTluvj

If you are thinking about requesting streaming media titles for your Fall 2024 classes, here are some important updates:

Thanks to Rhonda Voight-Campbell for sharing this radio interview that Dave Miller from Oregon Public Broadcasting conducted with Jelica Nuccio about Protactile language. A short video captures clips of their conversation in Protactile language.  

Check out this resource link about teaching Shakespeare's MacBeth to Deaf students.