This was Enable Talk, a pair of gloves that with the help of sensors and new smartphone software developed by a team of twenty-something programmers from the Ukraine, could change the way deaf people communicate with the world around them.
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The Royal National Institute for Deaf People welcomed the announcement.
James Strachan, chief executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People, is calling on the UK government to support Mr Stillman's application for a presidential pardon.
"It also allows a group of people in the deaf and signing community who may in the past have found it difficult to communicate with the police and other emergency services and to deal with us in confidence, " he said.
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The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) predicted that young MP3 users will have the hearing of someone aged 60 when they are just 40 years old, Liberal Democrat Bob Russell told the Commons in an adjournment debate on 23 March 2010.
There are no exact figures on how many of the 8.7 million deaf or hard of hearing people in the UK use mobiles and text messaging, but their increasing adoption of this technology is certainly contributing to the more than one billion text messages a month now being sent in Britain.
Dr Ralph Holme, biomedical research manager at the RNID, the charity for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, welcomed the research.
Over the last few years, the mobile phone has emerged as a popular device for what at first may seem an unlikely user group: the deaf and other people who are hard of hearing.
"Too often individuals have to rely on family members or friends to communicate complicated personal information to professionals, " said John Low, chief executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People.
Preferred Alternatives works with the disabled -- people who are deaf, blind or have some other physical impairment -- to train them on how to find a job.
Reading and writing problems appear to develop in deaf people because sign languages are not phonemic in the sense that a spoken language is.
"There is a centre for the deaf, a care home and homes where vulnerable people live around here, " Mr Khadam said.
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Above all, people speaking for the first time must not be met with deaf ears.
This legislation will make it easier for people who are deaf, blind, or live with a visual impairment to use the technology our 21st-century economy depends on, from navigating digital menus on a television to sending emails on a smart phone.
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After ten years of research, David Martin, a materials scientist at the University of Michigan, came up with a polymer that could help deaf people hear and blind people see.
For deaf people or those with significant hearing loss, these gloves offer hope against the locked-in feeling that the community can experience due to the low numbers of signers in the general population.
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The National Orchestra of Wales has staged a series of workshops and concerts for deaf people, many of them children, to explore how it is possible to experience music without being able to hear it fully.
For example, the money could be used to support the extra transport costs of someone with mobility problems or provide sign language interpreters for deaf people.
For the deaf and hearing impaired, an app called SpeechTrans Ultimate lets them communicate with hearing people, who speak out loud into the user's mobile device, and the translated text automatically appears.
The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act will make it easier for people who are deaf, blind or live with a visual impairment to do what many of us take for granted -- from navigating a TV or DVD menu to sending an email on a smart phone.
The people gathered in Zuccotti Park began their occupation as a scream of pain that fell on deaf ears.
"If they don't have access to learning a sign language that's already in existence, then a community of deaf people will find a way to communicate, " said Leanne Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.
China Central Television and The Beijing News say police have arrested 360 suspects in a nationwide operation to rescue 70 deaf-mute people abducted by criminal gangs to work as burglars and pickpockets.
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