Dave Smith
@DavidHarrySmith
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Research Professor. Pushes seditious education policies in favor of ASL and social justice for deaf children. Likes a good brew around the fire pit.
Somewhere in the Smoky Mts.
Joined December 2020
Sign language AI is dominated by hearing, non-signing researchers. What kinds of systemic biases does this introduce in the field's collective direction? To find out, read our preprint, with @aashaka_desai @mdemeulder @jahochcam and Annemarie Kocab! https://t.co/xuUejxU1q2
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Ash Wednesday and Valentines = Foreheads with heart-shaped ashes?
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Don't be an asshole. Leave your guns home when going to a party. #KCChiefs
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The crazy part about the $83.3M verdict against Trump is that it probably would have been a lot higher but his dick is so small that Ms. Carrol couldn't say for sure that it wasn't his finger so the jury gave him a break.
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Gene therapy improves hearing levels. This was reported in an AP press article. I went to the source in Lancet journal. Abstract only, not full access. Profoundly deaf (~95dB) to hard of hearing (~45dB) is still not a cure.
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This is as it should be and was
Starting today, all three major insulin manufacturers are offering $35/mo caps on out-of-pocket costs. Also today, they’re cutting list prices by 70% or more - a move that’s expected to *save* them hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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This is pretty cool but somebody gotta drink all those beers.
Amazing recycle. https://t.co/PiFbmq4bbA
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Why didn't we think of this before? #pasta
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I don’t think enough people appreciate the fact that the ONLY two deaf people to ever compete in Amazing Race both made to the top 3. Deaf people are usually - maybe naturally - hard workers. Oriented to details. We kick ass. Let’s go Rob and Corey!
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Wow. What an abelist asshole.
Mt. Juliet, Tennessee’s Greg Locke
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When hearing status changes during the period of first language acquisition (birth to age 5 years), the focus should be on the child meeting language acquisition milestones at the appropriate age to optimize brain development and prevent language deprivation.
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Evidence of the health benefits of signed and spoken language bilingualism continues to accrue. Families need not be constrained into choosing a single modality for their child’s communication.
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Longstanding bias against ASL is well documented and has contributed to incomplete language acquisition and additional disabilities in some children who rely only on hearing aids or CIs for spoken language acquisition
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In this way, ASL may provide the necessary linguistic input to prevent the risk of language deprivation.43,44 Many are unaware that the historical paradigm of choosing either signed language or spoken language is a false dichotomy.
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New American Academy of Pediatrics clinical report supports the use of ASL. See https://t.co/kG1zj6ou3F "... a natural visual language of the Deaf, such as American Sign Language (ASL), can be especially beneficial in supporting spoken language development"
publications.aap.org
Children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) are at high risk for permanent deficits in language acquisition and downstream effects such as poor academic performance, personal–social maladjustme...
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No surprise to a lot of us.
"A new audit of Gallaudet University has shown that administrative salary rose by 107% ($11.3 million) while overall spending on academics, including faculty salaries, fell by 6% ($4.8 million) since 2019." https://t.co/Lv49MdAcd7
#gallaudet #gally
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Tommy Tuberville on Biden’s Europe trip: “I’m afraid he’s going to fall down every time I turn on television.” Here’s Tommy ….
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