Tag Archives: ASL

The Hill reports: A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the White House must provide sign language interpreters during public coronavirus briefings starting Oct. 1. A U.S. district judge in Washington, D.C. ordered the White House to include a qualified American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for any news conference related to coronavirus matters conducted by the president, vice president or …

CNN reports: The National Association of the Deaf and five deaf Americans are suing the White House in an attempt to force President Donald Trump and other top officials to have American Sign Language interpreters at Covid-19 briefings. They’ve asked a federal judge to order the White House to add live televised ASL interpretation at all public coronavirus briefings. “The …

NPR reports: “The Gorilla Foundation is sad to announce the passing of our beloved Koko,” the research center says, informing the world about the death of a gorilla who fascinated and elated millions of people with her facility for language. Koko, who was 46, died in her sleep Tuesday morning, the Gorilla Foundation said. At birth, she was named Hanabi-ko …

Sexually “fluid” Dancing With The Stars winner and model/actor Nyle DiMarco would like you to know how to curse in ASL. From his clip’s description: Since I started making tutorial videos I’ve gotten so many requests to do a bad words video. I think curse words are some of the first things a lot of people learn when they are …

Via Buzzfeed: Deaf West Theatre is a premiere deaf theater company based in Los Angeles. Their recent production of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Spring Awakening, performed simultaneously in American Sign Language and spoken English, is headed to Broadway this fall.

Bill De Blasio’s super-emotive sign language interpreter stole the show at yesterday’s conference on the blizzard, spawning a mini-meme on Twitter. Mayor de Blasio took the impending blizzard seriously Monday — and so did his expressive sign language interpreter. Interpreter Jonathan Lamberton’s animated gestures and facial expressions got rave reviews on social media. “The sign language interpreter is incredibly animated …

Deaf people around the world took to social media yesterday to declare that the sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial was speaking gibberish. Many wondered if the man was using a sign language unique to South Africa, but that was not the case. Paul Breckell, chief executive of the U.K.-based charity Action on Hearing Loss, said: “We are shocked …

From the National Association of the Deaf.

Coproduced by Jeff Crerie, who did Matt Alber’s last album. That’s Jeff’s husband Mykel signing the lyrics. Lovely.

Going viral this week is a clip in which President Obama signs back “thank you” to a deaf supporter, who writes: “The moment I will never forget was when he looked at me. He gave me a chance to talk to him. It was like he was waiting for me to say something. I took the moment and signed ‘I …

An ASL take on one of my favorite tunes.

On the BBC’s Fast And Loose, panelists wearing noise-blocking headphones must discern the title of the song being acted out by comedian David Armand. Sort of like ASL for the hearing. Previous installments of this bit are here.

This is Michael DiMartino, whose sign language dance clips I’ve posted here several times, performing original music under the stage name, Chase. Here’s his site. You may spot him at Joan Rivers, Jackie Beat, and Lady Gaga shows this summer, where he’ll be working as an onstage ASL interpreter. And he’ll be performing in a NYC concert of his own …

You might remember adorkable ASL interpreter Michael DiMartino’s take on Britney Spears’ Womanizer, which I posted last March. Here’s his very twisted take on Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance. Possibly NSFW. (Tipped by JMG reader Peanut Logic)

An adorkable deaf dude gives us a sexy ASL version of Britney Spears’ Womanizer. This has been floating around YouTube for a few weeks, but for some reason a dozen of you sent this yesterday. I live to serve.