Celebration For The CSD Student Development Center

Video with captions - Celebration For The CSD Student Development Center at RIT/NTID. What the CSD Student Development Center Means to NTID.



ROCHESTER, NY. - NTID students, faculty and staff talk about what the The CSD Student Development Center means to them. This was shown during an anniversary event for the building put on by Communication Service for the Deaf, the major donor for the building.



"Accolades for the CSD Student Development Center"

The CSD Student Development Center, described as “the heart and center of student life at RIT/NTID,” was celebrated Friday by Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD), the major donor of the building constructed in 2006.



Students, faculty, staff and alumni attended the celebration under mild and sun-filled skies in the D. Robert Frisina Quad.



“This building is an important part of our college life,” said Corey Burton, NTID’s Student Congress president. “Thank you to CSD for making our dream a reality. I cannot imagine where we might be if this building never existed. It truly means a lot to us.”

Read More http://www.ntid.rit.edu/news/accolades-csd-student-development-center.



Subscribe the official YouTube channel for National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology. RITNTID

Video by RITNTID

Rochester's Deaf Population Among Largest Per Capita in U.S.

ROCHESTER, NY. - Rochester has more Deaf and Hard of Hearing residents per capita than the national average and a larger Deaf population than many other similarly sized cities, a new report out of Rochester Institute of Technology has found.



Rochester’s sizable Deaf community has often been assumed but was never quantified until the report, written by Gerard Walter and Richard Dirmyer from RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf.



The study found other cities have more total Deaf residents per capita, but among college and working aged people, Rochester has one of the largest populations in the country. In particular, the study found Rochester has far and away the highest percentage of Deaf residents enrolled in secondary education, likely driven by NTID.



“Often times it’s difficult to understand how many people are really in the community,” said Thomas Pearson, director of the National Center for Deaf Health Research at the University of Rochester. “This has been a real challenge for anyone interested in the field.”



Using American Community Survey data, Walter and Dirmyer found there are 43,000 Deaf or Hard of Hearing residents in the Rochester metro area, about 3.7 percent of the population. That’s higher than the national average, which is 3.5 percent.



Rochester doesn’t have the highest population per capita as is often suggested, however. The report only looked at a handful of cities, but found 3.9 percent of Pittsburgh’s population is Deaf or Hard of Hearing. The authors of the report attribute that to more elderly residents living in Pittsburgh than in Rochester, and the onset of age-related deafness.



Read more: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120925/NEWS01/309250048/Rochester-Institute-of-Technology-deaf?odyssey=nav|head



Related News - Wham ABC: http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Study-Rochester-Has-Largest-Deaf-Community/NIohNf_5HkSnV30z7zDwdg.cspx



RIT-NTID News: http://www.ntid.rit.edu/news/rochester-areas-deaf-population-better-defined



RocWiki blog: http://rocwiki.org/Deaf_Community

'Silent' Erin Lafave All American Athlete

Video: 'Silent" Erin Lafave All American Athlete in captioned.



A look into the life of Erin Lafave, a member of the RIT Track and Field team and competitor in the Deaf Olympics.



Biography Erin LaFave has been called Rochester Institute for the Deaf's top runner the Michigan resident won the 800m and finished second in the 1500m and 5000m for the 2007 Pan American Games for the Deaf. 2011 Women's Cross Country Roster: http://www.ritathletics.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=8102



Erin LaFave of the RIT cross country team, will represent the university at the 2011 NCAA Cross Country Championship: http://www.ritathletics.com/news/2011/11/15/WXC_1115111056.aspx

Video by 585Magazine



LaFave was an All-American athlete at Lahser High School in Bloomington Hills, Mich. and competed in the Deaflympics in Taiwan in 2009. She joined the RIT cross country team her first year, but decided to take the next two years off as she switched majors and focused on her academics.



Stevens says it is rare for athletes to return once they have left the team, but LaFave had the desire and motivation to fulfill the needed requirements to rejoin the team... Read more: http://www.ntid.rit.edu/news/ritntids-erin-lafave-headed-ncaa-cross-country-national-championships

Apple Gadgets Help Deaf To Communicate

Media Video: Apple gadgets help Deaf to communicate.



ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Deaf Grateful For Steve Jobs' Creations. College students have grown up with cell phones in their hands. But for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing cell phones and other text-based gadgets have provided another way to communicate. For students at NTID, using an Apple iPad and iPhone have changed their lives.

Read more http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/apple-steve-jobs-deaf-help/rL05Rrvi4E6E7iOPvJZ8WQ.cspx

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

iPod Shuffle Commercial With Sign Language.

jb8256



Ipod Shuffle commercial with American Sign Language (ASL), demonstrating hands free operation. (Imagine iPod Shuffle attached to beltloop).