Tag: New York City

Hearing-impaired boy gets every kid’s dream: becoming a superhero

Hearing-impaired boy gets every kid’s dream: becoming a superhero February 25, 2013 By Kristina Sgueglia NEW YORK (CNN) — Five-year-old Anthony Smith didn’t think superheroes wore hearing aids, until he became one. His mother, Christina D’Allesandro, says the epic journey…

11/15/12 – NPR’s Talk of the Nation Features Segment on ASL Interpretation Using Captioning for Individuals who are D/HH

NPR’S TALK OF THE NATION FEATURES SEGMENT ON SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION USING CAPTIONING FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING Not long after Superstorm Sandy hit New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed the public with an update…

Lydia Callis, Ace Interpreter for Bloomberg and American Sign Language Spoofs

Lydia Callis, Ace Interpreter for Bloomberg and American Sign Language Spoofs Kambri Crews Author, Production Company Owner Posted: 11/06/2012 Some deaf people are up in arms (pun intended) about the recent spoofs of Mayor Bloomberg’s American Sign Language (“ASL”) interpreter…