Abstract Details

<< Back to Schedule

10/09/2015  |   8:30 AM - 9:45 AM   |  Technology   |  Andrew Foster Auditorium

Enabling Us to Experience Equal Access via Technology

Introduction It’s time for us to gain equal access without barriers: To see, understand and meet our needs through the use of video technology. Specialized software is readily available to include American Sign Language, International Sign, and native sign languages with the capacity to expose general audiences to Deaf Culture and people worldwide. This exposure would peak interest and awareness of the general public as well as governments who seek to achieve equal access to communications. But this important technology is often overlooked. Presentation Track: Technology When presented with either an oral communication mode or a signed one, Deaf Communities naturally gravitate towards their native signed languages due to their absolute ease of access. Since American Sign Language is not universal and International Signs are not a full language understood by many, the best means of communicating with Deaf persons is typically through the use of their native signed languages. Global Deaf Aid Foundation seeks to provide this ease of access through the use of video technology. We work with interpreters internationally to provide equal access in a mode that is enjoyable and easy to use, all the while exposing users to the diversity of the hundreds of signed languages from around the world. Furthermore our mission entails improving relations between Deaf persons and their hearing counterparts by the use of video technology to instruct interactively in various signed languages in workshops, seminars, webinars, and more. Recipients will have a better understanding and respect for Deaf people, Deaf Culture, and language. By fully utilizing all of the video technology the modern world has to offer, we can alleviate the barriers to communication in a way that does not inhibit Deaf people, and celebrates our preferred mode of communication.

• Video Technology
• Language

Presentation:
This presentation has not yet been uploaded.

Handouts:
No handouts have been uploaded.

karunya samuel (POC,Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter), Global Deaf Aid Foundation, karunya.samuel@globaldeafaid.org;
Bio