The Braillephone is a portable braille telephone device designed for people who are Deaf Blind. This device can be used like a telephone or for face-to-face communication between a person who is Deaf Blind and another person using a telecommunications device for the Deaf (TDD) or deaf relay service. It’s designed to enable those who […]
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Pocket Sign Language Translator
This assistive technology device can be used for people who may be new to using American Sign Language. The Pocket Sign Language Translator is a device that translates text into video that demonstrates what the sign is. It’s a handheld video translator for people who are interested in learning Sign Language or improving their signing vocabulary. […]
iPad App to Teach Children ASL
The Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning at Gallaudet University created a series of iPad storybook apps for deaf children. The series is designed to help children with difficulty hearing learn how to read American Sign Language and English. The first book in the series of three is called The Baobab. It’s about a curious […]
4 Apps for Captioning Movies
Captionfish Captionfish is the Internet’s leading captioned movies search engine that shares information about open captioned and descriptively narrated movies showings in the United States. Captionfish also features streaming captioned trailers that allow deaf and people with hearing impairments to enjoy the very same previews of current and upcoming movies as their hearing counterparts. Last […]
See and hear: CapTel phones let you see what you can’t hear
Ideal for those who are hard of hearing or deaf, CapTel phones caption what the caller is saying. The phones work just like any other phone, only they have a display attached to them that reads what the caller says. CapTel phone users can listen to the caller, and can also read the written captions […]
Cochlear implants change the meaning of deaf
A deaf diagnoses used to mean no other option. Hearing loss was permanent. Today, children who were born deaf, are now hearing adults thanks to a little device called the cochlear implant. Surgically implanted into the ears, cochlear implants take sound waves and transform them into electrical codes the brain can read. That code is […]