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Students in RIT/NTID's mobile app development program earn a competitive advantage in the job market. 

Disability is an identity, not a deficit. That’s the message Catherine Lewis, director of RIT’s Disability Services Office, hopes people will remember.

WXXI talks to associate interpreter Kristi Love-Cooper and apprentice interpreter Cassandra Flores about NTID's Randleman Program, which aims to equip interpreters of color to meet the demands of interpreting in a postsecondary environment, while boosting recruitment and retention efforts for interpreters of color.

Matthew Dye, an RIT/NTID associate professor and researcher, has been named a member of the Language and Communication Study Section at NIH's Center for Scientific Review. 

RIT/NTID works with students to assist with job searches and employers to encourage them to hire our students. 

Detroit Free Press features deaf musician Sean Forbes '08 (applied arts and sciences) and the release of his new album.

Rochester, N.Y.’s notable histories as the birthplace of the women’s rights movement and photography will come together for RIT’s Big Shot next month. Organizers of the longtime community photographic project will capture a dramatic nighttime image of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison St., and surrounding neighborhood on March 22.

From furniture and toys that assist children with special needs to car seats that help people with mobility issues enter and exit vehicles safely, cutting-edge technologies designed to enhance accessibility for individuals across a wide range of physical and cognitive challenges will be on display March 17 at the fifth Conference on Effective Access Technology.

ClickOnDetroit.com features rapper Sean Forbes '08 (applied arts and sciences), co-founder of D-PAN, the Deaf Professional Arts Network.

Peter Hauser has spent the past two decades studying how deaf people develop, learn, grow and live. Today, he is at the helm of a new project—a research-based incubator—where junior faculty at NTID can work together to understand the role of cultural and linguistic diversity in deaf people’s lives.

The Alfred Hitchcock classic Dial M for Murder has a new twist as NTID Performing Arts translates the play into American Sign Language, making it accessible to deaf audiences. Deaf and hard-of-hearing audience members can also experience cutting-edge closed-captioning technology using smartglasses developed by Vuzix Corp.

Vulture talks to Denise Herrera, associate interpreter, about the challenges involved with interpreting for comedians. (Note: this story contains explicit language.)