Disability
- hearingreview.com Scientists Receive Grant to Develop Sign Language Lexicon for Chemistry
A team of scientists will expand work to make chemistry more accessible for students who rely on American Sign Language interpreters in class.
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Out of the frame: disability and the body in the writings of Karl Marx
Also, Marx himself became disabled and chronically ill in his adult life.^[The nature and consequence of Karl Marx's skin disease]^[Was Marx’s Probable Enemy Hidradenitis Suppurativa?]
You'd think more disability rights movements (other than the ones conducted by marxists) would be supporting him and other revolutionary marxists.
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Unethical Recruitment of Disabled Men During the Vietnam War
I'm horrified at the idea of becoming disabled here.
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Donald Trump Slammed After Mocking Disabled Reporter (in presidential election)
www.nbcnews.com Donald Trump Slammed After Mocking Disabled ReporterTrump appeared to imitate Kovaleski, who suffers from arthrogryposis.
People wonder why usonanos lost faith in this country. I'm just ashamed of him getting in power to begin with, especially after finding out about this shit, which happened in the 2015 elections...
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Disability and technology in Africa
www.cambridge.org Disability and technology in Africa: introduction | Africa | Cambridge CoreDisability and technology in Africa: introduction - Volume 92 Issue 4
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Books for People with Print Disabilities - Internet Archive
archive.org Books for People with Print DisabilitiesFree books for the people with disabilities that impact reading. If you have a disability that interferes with reading printed text then all of these books can be instantaneously available in your browser or via protected download. Want access? Individuals If you would like to...
- www.nytimes.com How Sign Language Evolves as Our World Does
Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language.
> The longer and more widely a sign is used, the more standardized it becomes, and ASL is still a fairly young, dynamic language that has overcome decades of stigma. The best way to figure out which words to use, Dr. Hochgesang said, is to connect with deaf communities.
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FORCED TO BEG: Tanzania's Trafficked Kids - BBC Africa Eye documentary
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- www.aljazeera.com Nigeria’s Lagos: Life with a disability in the African megacity
A close look into the state of accessibility for people with disabilities in Nigeria’s largest city.
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People with disabilities have been forgotten. Not any more. | African Arguments
> This is something we have the opportunity to address this year through the campaign for the ratification of the African Disability Protocol (ADP). The is the legal framework on which African Union (AU) member-states are expected to formulate disability laws and policies to promote disability rights in their countries. [...] It was adopted in 2018 by the AU, but for it to become legally binding we need 15 member states to sign and ratify it. So far only Mali and Kenya have fully ratified it, while some others are at various stages of signing up.
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Hardship of Life -- Siena International Photo Awards
> This little boy’s father Munzir lost his right leg when a bomb was dropped as he walked through a bazaar in Idlib, Syria. His son Mustafa was born without lower or upper limbs due to tetra-amelia, a congenital disorder caused by the medications his mother Zeynep had to take after being sickened by nerve gas released during the war in Syria. Mustafa will need special electronic prostheses in the future which, unfortunately, are not yet available in Turkey.
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New DEAFinition App helps you communicate with deaf friends and family
mybroadband.co.za New DEAFinition App helps you communicate with Deaf friends and familyA new South African app, developed by mobile app specialists Codehesion, helps users learn the basics of sign language to communicate with Deaf friends and family.
A new South African app called DEAFinition, developed by mobile app specialists Codehesion, helps users to learn the basics of sign language to communicate with deaf friends and family.
DEAFinition is a non-profit company providing a range of services and funding opportunities to promote equal access for the deaf community.
The SASL DEAFinition App, available to Android and iPhone users, offers reference videos and material for the official sign language used by deaf people in South Africa.
See https://mybroadband.co.za/news/industrynews/430840-new-deafinition-app-helps-you-communicate-with-deaf-friends-and-family.html
#technology #mobile #deaf #hearing #disability
- www.businessdailyafrica.com Sign language gets boost after Senate approves Bill
It will soon be compulsory for all government institutions including parastatals, the Judiciary and schools to provide for the use of sign language.
> If the proposed law is approved by the National Assembly as passed by the Senate, sign language will become the third official language after Kiswahili and English and will be used in all government offices, schools and courts.
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Atkinson Hyperlegible - A new typeface with greater legibility and readability for low vision readers
brailleinstitute.org Download the Atkinson Hyperlegible FontA new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recogniti...
- www.justice.gov Justice Department Sues Uber for Overcharging People with Disabilities
The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. (Uber) for charging “wait time” fees to passengers who, because of disability, need more time to enter a car. Uber’s policies and practices of charging wait time fees based on disability have harmed many passengers and poten...
> The department’s complaint alleges that Uber violates the ADA by failing to reasonably modify its wait time fee policy for passengers who, because of disability, need more than two minutes to get in an Uber car. Passengers with disabilities may need additional time to enter a car for various reasons. A passenger may, for example, use a wheelchair or walker that needs to be broken down and stored in the car. Or a passenger who is blind may need additional time to safely walk from the pickup location to the car itself. The department’s lawsuit alleges that, even when Uber is aware that a passenger’s need for additional time is clearly disability-based, Uber starts charging a wait time fee at the two-minute mark.
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Hearing Aid Manufacturer Explains Why Bluetooth Audio Sharing Will Be a Game Changer for Those With Hearing Loss
www.bluetooth.com Hearing Aid Manufacturer Explains Why Auracast Broadcast Audio Will Be a Game Changer for Those With Hearing Loss | Bluetooth® Technology WebsiteA well-known manufacturer of hearing aids in North America, Starkey is committed to supplying high-quality hearing solutions to people with hearing loss. Starkey hearing aids, mobile applications…
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‘You Just Feel Like Nothing’: California to Pay Sterilization Victims (paywall)
www.nytimes.com ‘You Just Feel Like Nothing’: California to Pay Sterilization Victims (Published 2021)More than 20,000 people, many of them disabled, poor or people of color, were forced to undergo the procedure under the state’s decades-long eugenics program.
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Drought, Displacement and Disabilities: The challenges facing IDPs with disabilities in Ethiopia and ways forward for more inclusive action
www.internal-displacement.org Expert opinionDrought, displacement and disabilities: The challenges facing IDPs with disabilities in Ethiopia and ways forward for more inclusive action
> Medication and assistive devices are scarce in displacement settings and almost all surveyed IDPs with disabilities said they don’t receive assistance adapted to their difficulties, including specialised healthcare.
- www.aljazeera.com How a Palestinian man with autism was killed by Israeli police
One year on, a mother remembers the day her son, Eyad al-Halaq, was shot and killed by Israeli police.
> As usual, several Israeli police officers would be there at the gate, which is close to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. But Eyad was used to seeing them there, and in case he was ever stopped (he rarely was), he always carried three forms of identification to show – two of them attesting to his autism. > Realising the danger Eyad was in, Wardeh called out “Nakheh nakheh (disabled)!” in Hebrew, to warn the officers that the man they were chasing had a disability.
- www.businessdailyafrica.com Digital device makes learning easier for 500 blind students
Visually impaired learners no longer need to struggle with costly braille paper following development of a portable digital device.
- www.ctvnews.ca 'Her body was a prison': How a new gene therapy changed the lives of two Canadian girls
A new gene therapy for an extremely rare disorder has offered two Canadian children a new chance at life, allowing them to move on their own after years of being trapped within their own bodies.