Calling Deaf Film Entries!

Calling for Deaf Film Entries, March 15-April 15, 2024.  Deadline is Feb 11, 2024.  See link below for more info.

Entries are now open! With the call for “The Preservation of Sign Language”, DEAF, Inc. is hosting its 5th annual 1904 Deaf Film Festival from March 15- April 15, 2024. We invite you to submit your films to:
Deadline: February 11, 2024. If you have any questions or concerns, contact the film festival coordinator, Hope Shrake at hshrake@deafinc.org.
 
 

Dorothy Chiyoko Sueoka Casterline: An appreciation

Dorothy Casterline

Dorothy Chiyoko Sueoka Casterline, ’58 & H-’22, passed away on August 8, 2023. She was 95 years old. 

Along with the late Carl Croneberg, ’55, Dot, as she was known, conducted much of the painstaking field research that led to the formal recognition of American Sign Language in the late 1950s and early 1960s. She and Mr. Croneberg were awarded honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees during Gallaudet’s 152nd Commencement in May 2022.

Dorothy Chiyoko Sueoka was born on April 27, 1928 to Toshiba and Toyiko Sueoka, in the city of Honolulu in the territory of Hawai’i. She began her education in the public school system. At age 14, she became deaf, possibly from mastoiditis. She then was educated orally at the Diamond Head School for the Deaf and Blind, which is now the Hawai’i School for the Deaf and Blind. 

Up until the early 1950s, deaf people were not allowed to drive in Hawai’i. With the assistance of influential members of the National Association of the Deaf, Dot, while still a teenager, helped convince the Honolulu police department to remove this restriction.

Read on at https://gallaudet.edu/university-communications/dorothy-chiyoko-sueoka-casterline-an-appreciation.

Robot Uses Sign Language to Communicate with Deaf-Blind Persons

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For the deaf-blind person, the combination of vision and hearing loss can make for a confined and isolating existence. A startup in Boston is developing a robot to expand communication and access to information. VOA’s Tina Trinh has more.

Source: https://www.voanews.com/a/robot-uses-sign-language-to-communicate-with-deaf-blind-persons/7225707.html?fbclid=IwAR3y9-RrGDv1eqQU54tmuXvChM5CQM92HGf0TwbNebq_DBuGOsHkAVAI5vU.