Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine @ UT Southwestern | Deaf Health Advocate | Child Of Deaf Adults (CODA) 🤟 | Retired American Sign Language Interpreter
I’ll never forget the time in junior high where all my friends all signed a petition to get ASL recognized as a second language so I could get out of Spanish. #CODA
"This is dedicated to the deaf community, the 'CODA' community, and the disabled community. This is our moment!"
@TroyKotsur is the first deaf man to win an Academy Award for acting.
Here is his acceptance full speech.
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Deaf people across North Central Florida are faced with communication barriers on a daily basis, but in extreme cases, this could mean life or death. wcjb.com/2022/01/27/deaf-pat…
The varsity football team at the California School for the Deaf, Riverside, is undefeated this season.
Trevin Adams, the team's quarterback, said playing with fellow deaf teammates is liberating: "We can express ourselves completely. We can be leaders." nyti.ms/3Hq8hY1
TONIGHT, it’s time to meet the Eternals! See Lauren Ridloff introduce Marvel Studios’ #Eternals speaking American Sign Language and experience the film only in theaters! Get Tickets Now: Fandango.com/Eternals
This wouldn’t be even a thought at any other point in time but CVS must now think there is a chance SCOTUS might side with them on this and that’s scary.
A company that makes huge profits from providing medications — many of which are for people with disabilities — now has the audacity to attack our ability to be included in the fabric of society. aclu.org/news/disability-rig…
“kids who wear the hearing aids less than 10 hours per day show the opposite trajectory where they’re falling further behind”
Or we could stop language deprivation in children, teach American Sign Language, and have equivalency without a crutch. #ASL
University of Iowa researchers have been following 300 children with hearing loss for nearly 14 years, and their findings are changing lives, the field of #audiology, and public policy. @uiowastories.uiowa.edu/improving-…
If you watch movies at home with closed captioning then you're in luck. AMC has rolled out the red carpet for open captioning at hundreds of its locations in the U.S.
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