Resources for Hearing Impaired Students

[John Langran]

I have a feature in the Ruslan 2 CDRom which may help if your student gets 
to this intermediate level. The vocabulary items from the dialogues are 
pronounced on video with the reader (one male, one female) looking straight 
at the camera. The text is highlighted on the screen at the same time, and 
there is pause and replay.
You can see this in action in the Ruslan 2 CDRom demo at 
www.ruslan.co.uk/demos.htm  . Download the setup.exe file and then install 
lesson 1 of the program.
For vista and windows 7 you may need to install fonts manually, and the 
program will not (yet) work from 64 bit platforms.
John Langran
www.ruslan.co.uk


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Svetlana Grenier" <greniers at GEORGETOWN.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Resources for Hearing Impaired Students


> If such resources exist, I (and I am sure others) would like to hear about 
> them too!  Please reply to the list, if at all possible.
> Thank you!
> Svetlana
>
> Brian Johnson wrote:
>
>>Fellow SEELANGTSY,
>>I have a hearing impaired student who has enrolled in my first year 
>>Russian
>>course for next fall. He relies heavily upon lip reading to communicate. 
>>Do
>>any of you know of any foreign language resources for hearing impaired
>>students that may be helpful? In particular I am looking materials to help
>>him learn how to lip read Russian and mitigate the influence of my accent 
>>on
>>his lip reading, such as video clips of Russians pronouncing sounds and
>>words while looking directly into the camera, or something along those
>>lines. Any ideas would be helpful. Please reply off list to
>>bjohnso1 at swarthmore.edu. I thank you in advance.
>>Yours,
>>Brian
>>
>>
>
> -- 
> Svetlana S. Grenier
>
> Associate Professor
> Department of Slavic Languages
> Box 571050
> Georgetown University
> Washington, DC 20057-1050
> 202-687-6108
> greniers at georgetown.edu
>
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