Sign Language Media Expo
September 18th, 2010 9am to 6pm in Kissimmee, FL
ASL Services Inc and our sister company Gracias VRS will bring great new technology and services to this venue. Please visit our booth and see for yourself what we have to offer and participate in our raffle.
A Simple Sign Means the World
News Article from Puerto Rico written by Karol Joselyn Selpuveda for Primera Hora on September 2nd 2010, about an upcoming event related to the Deaf.
They learn the non verbal language that not many know, and they fight for their right to be accepted in a society that, on many occasions, treats them as “invisibles”. They are the Deaf community.
To help this community learn about their rights, there will be a conference-forum entitled ‘The ADA Law and its accessibility for the Deaf’ which will be held this Saturday...
Silent communication: Sign-talkers share vanishing language
We found this great story article on http://www.ravallirepublic.com written by Donna Healy and wanted to share it with you.
Loretha (Rising Sun) Grinsell is fluent in a language few people understand, a language without spoken words.
Grinsell, who is deaf, grew up on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation using Plains Indian sign language to communicate with her foster grandmother.
She relied exclusively on “hand talk” until she went to school at age 9 and learned the more commonly used American Sign...
Deaf Spotlight On: Dr. Robert Davila
Robert Davila was born in southern California to Mexican-American parents who worked in fields and orchards. At age eight, he contracted spinal meningitis and became deaf. When his mother learned about a school for the deaf in northern California, she sent him alone on a journey to California School for the Deaf, Fremont but he attended to Berkley before moved to Fremont in late of 1930’s and early of 1940’s. He graduated from Gallaudet University and earns Bachelor degrees in Education. He was class of 1953.
Dr. Robert Davila is...
DeafNation Vegas – Drawing Winners Announced!
Special thanks to everyone that visited our booth and signed up for our Visa Gift Card drawing. Three winners were selected at random and their prizes are on the way!
$10.00 winner is: Dave Showers
$100.00 winner is: Morton Bayarsky
$1000.00 Grand Prize Winner is: Ron Kois
