News by Topic: Deaf Community
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June 3, 2022
The opportunity at home: Can AI drive innovation in personal assistant devices and sign language?
The Microsoft Accessibility Blog features a project led by computing and information sciences Ph.D. candidate Abraham Glasser that looks at improving common interactions with smart assistants for people who use sign language.
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May 25, 2022
Parents of deaf children often miss out on key support from the Deaf community
Essay by Pamela Renee Conley, associate professor of liberal studies, published by The Conversation.
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May 24, 2022
Parents of deaf children can more easily learn sign language thanks to powerful tech collaboration
The Center on Access Technology at NTID, in partnership with Google and Georgia Institute of Technology, is creating PopSign, a mobile app that will enable parents of deaf children to more easily learn American Sign Language.
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May 23, 2022
Cybersecurity experts wanted: All can apply
RIT’s bootcamp prepares professionals from all backgrounds and abilities—including those who don’t know code—for critical entry-level cybersecurity jobs.
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May 17, 2022
Performing and Fine Arts Schools Bring People with Disabilities to the Forefront
INSIGHT into Diversity features NTID's Robert F. Panara Theatre and performing arts program.
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May 9, 2022
Alumna facilitates crucial conversations as medical interpreter
Debbie Lesser '19 is a catalyst, facilitating crucial conversations taking place in often highly sensitive situations. As a certified medical interpreter, she assists deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing patients and health care providers in communicating with one another regarding everything from mental health crises to detailed complex medical procedures.
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May 9, 2022
2021-2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards: Christine Sun Kim
Christine Sun Kim BS ’02 is an artist and is being honored by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
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May 9, 2022
New lab studies cognitive development in children
Rain Bosworth, an assistant professor and experimental psychologist at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, has created a new research lab that will help scientists learn more about cognition, language, and perception in infants and young children.
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May 4, 2022
RIT/NTID film wins top spot for national competition
WROC-TV interviews Anna McClanahan, a film and animation: production option student, and Gabriel Ponte-Fleary, a film and animation MFA student, about their film, Say Cheese.
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May 2, 2022
RIT/NTID alumni, student athletes to participate in Deaflympics in South America
Three RIT/NTID alumni, Mia White, Ethan Ettienne, and Otto Kingstedt, and one current student-athlete, Krystyna Miller, will travel to Caxias do Sul, Brazil, to participate in the 24th Summer Deaflympics, May 1-15.
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April 29, 2022
Pioneering RIT and NTID collaboration garners the Coca-Cola Refreshing Films Grand Prize
Say Cheese, a pioneering, heartfelt film directed and produced by two RIT students, took home the top prize in the Coca-Cola Refreshing Films program announced during the final night of CinemaCon in Las Vegas late Thursday. The project featured the combined creative efforts of students, faculty, and staff in RIT’s School of Film and Animation and NTID.
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April 28, 2022
Project IRIS makes smartphones more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing people
The limitations of telecommunication relay services are being addressed with the development of a new program that explores how to make deaf and hard-of-hearing users’ experiences with cellular devices truly equal to those of hearing users.