Resources for Hearing Impaired Students

[Karen Evans-Romaine]

Dear Brian, Svetlana and colleagues,

I had responded to Brian off-list but can certainly do so on-list.

Deaf anthropologist Simon Carmel, retired from Rochester Institute of Technology, has done extraordinary work on the deaf community in Moscow. He himself speaks excellent Russian, as well as his native English, and sign language in English and Russian. He has lectured on the differences between the two sign languages. A Google search produces a good deal of information on him and his work. He is an extraordinary resource. I would recommended looking into his work, because he might well have something published on this, although he is not a language instructor.

Best wishes,

Karen Evans-Romaine
Associate Professor
Dept of Slavic Languages & Literature
University of Wisconsin - Madison

On 04/20/10, Svetlana Grenier  <greniers at GEORGETOWN.EDU> wrote:

> 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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