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RSS deafPosition Paper on Use of DIBELS for Diverse Learners
White Paper DIBELS are appropriate for all students for whom a goal is learning to read in English with a few exceptions: a) students who are deaf; b) students who have fluency-based speech disabilities, e.g.stuttering, oral... [22 Apr 2009]
Kiara: An Open Source SIP System to Support Deaf Telephony
White Paper This paper describes Kiara, an open source SIP-based communication system that provides the building blocks to enable Deaf relay services. The work-in-progress concerns the addition of relay services for the... [06 Feb 2009]
Implementing Video Streamed Instruction for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Online Learners
White Paper Videotaped instruction has been an effective delivery tool for deaf online learners for many years, but it may soon be replaced by video streaming. Video streamed instruction delivered via the web has not become a stand... [22 Oct 2008]
Harnessing the Power of IP Telephony in the Contact Center
White Paper Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD) has been providing communication services for the nation's deaf and hard of hearing community for over 30 years. For CSD, the initial challenge was to get their... [11 Jan 2008]
Graphing Longitudinal Data: Deaf Children in the "Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth"
White Paper By using SAS and its graphing capabilities exploratory analysis of longitudinal data is for more capable then other methods. Comparing means between groups is too weak of a comparison and does not allow seeing trends or tracking change. [09 Jun 2007]
Vonage refused a retrial in Verizon patent suit
News A US appeals court has denied Vonage's request for a retrial of a patent case it lost against Verizon Communications earlier this year. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to grant the motion. [04 May 2007]
€700k European ICT prize finalists get the nod
News UK companies ScanSafe and the Royal National Institute for Deaf people both missed out on getting a finalist spot - after appearing on a preliminary shortlist of 45 companies up for the award back in January. [19 Feb 2007]
IT managers: How well do you communicate?
White Paper Do you turn a deaf ear to your staff when they suggest there are merits to Enterprise JavaBeans? Do you tend to zealously defend technology, even if it has not been proven yet? Perhaps your communication skills aren't... [17 May 2006]
Disabled and elderly excluded by new technology
News The Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) and the Disabled Living Foundation (DLF) claim many disabled and older people are still excluded from the "information society", and have drawn up an eInclusion charter to... [15 May 2006]
Microsoft's Vista search plans get the nod
News The US government has given the thumbs-up to Microsoft's search box plans for Vista, shrugging off concerns raised recently by Google. While criticising Microsoft for its implementation of its existing antitrust accord, regulators appear... [15 May 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.01.06
Round-Up However, fair's fair and while we think Apple deserves its time on the naughty step for the above we're not sure it quite deserves to be blamed for making kids deaf. Happy New Year to one and all. The Round-Up hopes you... [06 Jan 2006]
Deaf get voicemail messages in text
News Deaf people are piloting a service that allows them to read messages on their phones which were originally left as voicemails. The Leeds Society for Deaf and Blind People has teamed up with mobile... [13 Dec 2005]
Websites make poor showing on e-accessibility
News The survey was carried out by a partnership led by the Royal National Institute of the Blind and also comprising AbilityNet, Dublin City University and Socitm Insight supported by the Royal National Institute of the Deaf. [28 Nov 2005]
Cops launch 999 text hotline for deaf
News A spokesman for Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MFRS) said: "The deaf community has been asking for this for such a long time. Around 5,000 deaf people who communicate through British Sign Language... [19 Oct 2005]
CIO Forum: Online communities to shape mobile working
News I have a sister who is deaf. Wireless providers are looking to tailor mobile working around online communities in a bid to improve security. Speaking at silicon.com's CIO Forum in London today, George Polk, CEO of... [27 Sep 2005]
