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Library Services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing
The Library Services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing is a statewide special library dedicated to meeting the information and accessibility needs of the deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind communities, as well as meeting the information needs about hearing loss to all Tennesseans.
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Features hearing impaired people speaking on a variety of topics. There are 15 different speeches which represent samples containing various degrees of speaking ability and are excellent for voice interpreting (visible to spoken) practice. Topics range from informal personal experiences to formal speeches.
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Two fairy tales are shared in AmericanSign Language. Lance McWilliams, who became deaf at age one, tells "The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf", and Rodney Coffey, born deaf, gives his rendition of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Each story is signed in its original form without any interruptions. A second version follows which will freeze in certain spots permitting captioned questions to pop up. The questions will disappear, the answer...
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"As the ASL-English interpreting field has become professionalized, there is a growing disconnect between interpreters and the Deaf consumers they serve. Whereas interpreting used to be a community-based practice, the field is growing into a research-based profession that begins in a classroom rather than in the Deaf community. Despite the many gains being made in the interpreting services profession, with an emphasis on the accuracy of the interpreted...
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This video contains two interview scenarios each one preceded by a brief introduction of the characters involved followed by a biographical sketch of the language model who is deaf. The interviews are conducted at a slow to moderate pace and may be best used for beginning to intermediate interpreting students. The first interview is an opportunity to enhance interpreting skills, the second one focuses on transliterating skills.
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This DVD is intended for interpreters and ASL students/ Follow the step-by-step recommended activities to learn how to interpret better from spoken English to ASL by maximizing use of space features, improving production of the fingerspelling and learning how to make appropriate sign choices. Learn by doing, viewing, analyzing, and doing again! Each Video Tutorial program provides a pre-test, step-by-step activities, comparisons of interpretations...
57) Use of space
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Produced by Sign Enhancers, this tutorial focuses on an important tenet of effective interpreting for the Deaf - maximizing use of space. It also promotes enhanced fingerspelling and appropriate sign choices. The program is formatted to provide a pre-test, step-by-step activities, a comparison of two excellent interpreters modelling, a new Visual Analysis of their skills, side-by-side views, high-speed side-by-side analysis and a chance to integrate...
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