Volume 41 Issue 9

HOH-LD-News
Vol. 41, Issue 9
November 28, 2009

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Table of Contents
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- Article 1: Google and YouTube: Leading the Way for Internet Captioning - Part One

- Article 2: Twenty-six Charged in Video Relay Fraud Scheme - Part Two

- Article 3: Words and Gestures Translated by Same Brain Regions

- Article 4: Short Takes

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- Article 1: Google and YouTube: Leading the Way for Internet Captioning
By Cheryl Heppner
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Editor: The good news is that Google intends to caption YouTube videos. The bad news is that they will be using speech recognition software to do it. Don't get me wrong! I'm a big fan of speech recognition. But I have yet to be convinced that a speech recognition program can do a decent job of transliterating the speech of any random person. I'd love to be wrong on this!

Anyway, here's Cheryl with her report on the meeting where this announcement was made.

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Today was my day to learn cool and exciting new stuff. I went with Debbie Jones, NVRC's Technology Specialist to a special event by Google and YouTube at which they would be making an announcement. The invitation had hints it would be something important to do with accessibility. YouTube is all about video so immediately I wondered if they'd had a breakthrough with captioning. How could I stay away?

I arrived at the Google office on New York Avenue in DC and got a hug from Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, while I was fresh off the elevator, followed another just moments later from his wife Sigrid. The Google folks were easy to pick out. They had black tees with a fingerspelled Google, each letter in a different color.

In the meeting room I found Debbie and lots of fellow advocates - Nancy Bloch, Brenda Battat, David Nelson, Shane Feldman, Cindy King, Lise Hamlin, Bob Davila, Tom Wlodkowski, Rosaline Crawford, Jenifer Simpson and so many more.

Introduction by Jonas Klink

We all settled in our chairs to hear Jonas Klink, the Accessibility Product Manager at Google start things up by introducing Vint as a critical element for his unwavering support of an accessible Internet. Vint took the stage and spoke of Google's goal to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible for everyone. He said that access was personally important to him as both he and Sigrid have hearing loss, and joked that Sigrid hears so well now with her two cochlear implants that he had to buy a bigger house so she could have bigger parties.

Background Information from Vint Cerf

YouTube has shown that there is an extraordinary desire by the world's population to express itself through video. Over 20 hours of video are uploaded each minute to YouTube. It has become a powerful medium of personal expression and an equally powerful medium of political expression, giving an individual the ability to tell the rest of the world what is happening. But accessing You Tube has also posed a huge challenge for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing as well as individuals who are blind or visually impaired.

Google has a history of coming up with new ideas and then putting out a product for beta testing to see what people will do with it. The company is constantly seeking all kinds of ways to help people find information, and making that information internationally available and usable.

Vint showed a chart with data about the languages most used by people on the Internet. In the top spot was English, followed by Chinese. But the chart also noted the number of people with disabilities, including the large number of people who are deaf, blind, have poor vision, and limited dexterity.

In trying to improve accessibility, Google Apps has been focusing on keyboard access. Google's Android was released as open source to encourage developers to add functionality. Its Chrome browser is also an open platform.

"Google is fully prepared to pursue accessible features in all its products and services," Vint said.

For more details on the presentations at the announcement, watch for Part 2!

For the official scoop from the Official Google Blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

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- Article 2: Twenty-six Charged in Video Relay Fraud Scheme - Part Two
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Editor: Video Relay Service (VRS) is a wonderful service for people with hearing loss who are fluent in sign language. It's much closer to "functional equivalence" than anything available to most folks with profound hearing loss who don't sign. CBS News reports that fees approaching $400 per hour generate about $800 million a year in revenues for the companies who provide VRS, an amount which far exceeds the cost of all other types of relay service combined! It appears that some companies have resorted to fraudulent means to get their hands on some of that cash. Here's the release from the Department of Justice.

This is part two of two parts.

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Each of the indictments alleges that the defendants made, caused others to make, or processed fraudulent VRS calls that were then submitted to the FCC for reimbursement. These calls, often referred to as "r calls," "rest calls" or "run calls," served no purpose other than to generate call minutes that would be billed to the FCC's VRS Fund.

In the first indictment, Viable Communications Inc. and four Viable executives have been charged with fraudulently generating VRS call minutes and obtaining reimbursements from the FCC for those calls. Viable owner and CEO John Yeh, 62, of Potomac, Md.; Viable Chief Operating Officer Joseph Yeh, 64, of Potomac; Viable Assistant Vice President Anthony Mowl, 25, of Rockville, Md.; and Viable Human Relations Director Donald Tropp, 25, of Rockville, have been charged in a six-count indictment with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and to submit false claims; submitting false claims; conspiracy to commit mail fraud; and mail fraud.

In the second indictment, Master Communications, KL Communications and Mascom owners and employees have been charged with generating fraudulent VRS minutes. According to the indictment, these companies operated VRS call centers for Viable that generated and processed a large volume of fraudulent VRS calls, which were then submitted to the FCC's TRS Fund Administrator for reimbursement. Master Communications, KL Communications and Mascom owner and employee Kim E. Hawkins, 46, of Las Vegas; Master Communications employee and KL Communications owner and employee Larry Berke, 62, of Phoenix; KL Communications employee Dary Berke of Phoenix; KL Communications and Master Communications employee Lisa Goetz, 43, of Phoenix; and Mascom Marketing and Advertising Director David Simmons, 43, of Austin; have been charged in a six-count indictment with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and to submit false claims; submitting false claims; conspiracy to commit mail fraud; and mail fraud.

In the third indictment, DHIS owners and employees have been charged with generating and processing a large volume of fraudulent VRS calls. According to the indictment, DHIS operated VRS call centers for Viable that generated and processed fraudulent VRS calls. DHIS co-owners Irma Azrelyant, 47, of Basking Ridge, N.J., and Joshua Finkle, 41, of New York; DHIS video interpreter Natan Zfati, 31, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; DHIS bookkeeper Oksana Strusa, 35, of Jersey City, N.J.; DHIS video interpreter Alfia Iskandarova, 29, of Brooklyn; and DHIS video interpreter Hennadii Holovkin, 36, of Philadelphia; have been charged in a six-count indictment with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and to submit false claims; submitting false claims; conspiracy to commit mail fraud; and mail fraud.

In the fourth indictment, ICSD owners and employees have been charged with generating and processing a large volume of fraudulent VRS calls. According to the indictment, ICSD operated VRS call centers for Viable that generated and processed a large number of fraudulent VRS calls. The indictment also alleges that ICSD owners and employees engaged in sham "marketing calls" for the stated purpose of marketing VRS services, but for the alleged true purpose of fraudulently generating additional VRS minutes. ICSD co-owners Yosbel Buscaron, 25, and Lazaro Fernandez, 35, both of Hialeah, Fla.; ICSD call center manager Wanda Hutchinson, 35, of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; ICSD call center manager Jessica Bacallo, 23, of Miami; and ICSD marketing manager Kathleen Valle, 23, of Miami; have been charged in a six-count indictment with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and to submit false claims; submitting false claims; conspiracy to commit mail fraud; and mail fraud.

In the fifth indictment, defendants Benjamin Pena, Robert Z. Rubeck and Tamara Frankel have been charged with generating fraudulent VRS calls. According to that indictment, Pena was allegedly paid by Viable owner and CEO John Yeh to generate fraudulent VRS minutes. Also according to the indictment, Pena allegedly paid Rubeck and Frankel to make VRS calls for the purpose of generating those fraudulent minutes. Pena, 34, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; Rubeck, 34, of Surprise, Ariz.; and Frankel, 28, also of Surprise; have been charged in the six-count indictment with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and to submit false claims; submitting false claims; conspiracy to commit mail fraud; and mail fraud.

Deaf Studio 29 owners and employees have been charged in a sixth indictment with generating fraudulent VRS calls. According to the indictment, Marc Velasquez Verson, Ellen Thompson and Doris Martinez allegedly organized and paid employees to use a particular VRS provider to make run calls. That provider would pay the defendants approximately 20 to 25 percent of the money the provider received from the FCC for the calls generated by the defendants. Velasquez, 56, of Oswego, Ore.; Ellen Thompson, 43, of Lake Oswego, Ore.; and Doris Martinez, 51, also of Oswego; were charged in the six-count indictment with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and to submit false claims; submitting false claims; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; and wire fraud.

All of the indictments seek criminal forfeiture from each of the charged defendants.

An indictment is merely an accusation, and defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

These cases are being prosecuted by Assistant Chief Hank Bond Walther and Trial Attorney Brigham Cannon of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section, with the investigative assistance of the FBI's Washington Field Office, USPIS and FCC-OIG.

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- Article 3: Words and Gestures Translated by Same Brain Regions
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Editor: This sure makes a lot of sense to me. I thought learning ASL was very much like learning a spoken language, so it sounds right that the same parts of the brain are doing the processing.

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Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the National Institutes of Health.

In a study published in this week's Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers have shown that the brain regions that have long been recognized as a center in which spoken or written words are decoded are also important in interpreting wordless gestures. The findings suggest that these brain regions may play a much broader role in the interpretation of symbols than researchers have thought and, for this reason, could be the evolutionary starting point from which language originated.

"In babies, the ability to communicate through gestures precedes spoken language, and you can predict a child's language skills based on the repertoire of his or her gestures during those early months," said James F. Battey, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., director of the NIDCD. "These findings not only provide compelling evidence regarding where language may have come from, they help explain the interplay that exists between language and gesture as children develop their language skills."

Scientists have known that sign language is largely processed in the same regions of the brain as spoken language. These regions include the inferior frontal gyrus, or Broca's area, in the front left side of the brain, and the posterior temporal region, commonly referred to as Wernicke's area, toward the back left side of the brain. It isn't surprising that signed and spoken language activate the same brain regions, because sign language operates in the same way as spoken language does - with its own vocabulary and rules of grammar.

In this study, NIDCD researchers, in collaboration with scientists from Hofstra University School of Medicine, Hempstead, N.Y., and San Diego State University, wanted to find out if non-language-related gestures - the hand and body movements we use that convey meaning on their own, without having to be translated into specific words or phrases - are processed in the same regions of the brain as language is. Two types of gestures were considered for the study: pantomimes, which mimic objects or actions, such as unscrewing a jar or juggling balls, and emblems, which are commonly used in social interactions and which signify abstract, usually more emotionally charged concepts than pantomimes. Examples include a hand sweeping across the forehead to indicate "it's hot in here!" or a finger to the lips to signify "be quiet."

While inside a functional MRI machine, 20 healthy, English-speaking volunteers - nine males and 11 females - watched video clips of a person either acting out one of the two gesture types or voicing the phrases that the gestures represent. As controls, volunteers also watched clips of the person using meaningless gestures or speaking pseudowords that had been chopped up and randomly reorganized so the brain would not interpret them as language. Volunteers watched 60 video clips for each of the six stimuli, with the clips presented in 45-second time blocks at a rate of 15 clips per block. A mirror attached to the head enabled the volunteer to watch the video projected on the scanner room wall. The scientists then measured brain activity for each of the stimuli and looked for similarities and differences as well as any communication occurring between individual parts of the brain.

The researchers found that for the gesture and spoken language stimuli, the brain was highly activated in the inferior frontal and posterior temporal areas, the long-recognized language regions of the brain.

"If gesture and language were not processed by the same system, you'd have spoken language activating the inferior frontal and posterior temporal areas, and gestures activating other parts of the brain," said Allen Braun, M.D., senior author on the paper, "But in fact we found virtual overlap."

Current thinking in the study of language is that, like a smart search engine that pops up the most suitable Web site at the top of its search results, the posterior temporal region serves as a storehouse of words from which the inferior frontal gyrus selects the most appropriate match. The researchers suggest that, rather than being limited to deciphering words alone, these regions may be able to apply meaning to any incoming symbols, be they words, gestures, images, sounds, or objects. According to Dr. Braun, these regions also may present a clue into how language evolved.

"Our results fit a longstanding theory which says that the common ancestor of humans and apes communicated through meaningful gestures and, over time, the brain regions that processed gestures became adapted for using words," he said. "If the theory is correct, our language areas may actually be the remnant of this ancient communication system, one that continues to process gesture as well as language in the human brain."

Dr. Braun adds that developing a better understanding of the brain systems that support gestures and words may help in the treatment of some patients with aphasia, a disorder that hinders a person's ability to produce or understand language.

NIDCD supports and conducts research and research training on the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language and provides health information, based upon scientific discovery, to the public. For more information about NIDCD programs, see the Web site at www.nidcd.nih.gov.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) - The Nation's Medical Research Agency - includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.

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- Article 4: Short Takes
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Editor: Here are our picks of some additional stories that you may find interesting. For more, please point your browser to: http://www.hearinglossweb.com/news/curr.htm

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Deanne Bray - A Hearing Loss Hero

Deanne Bray has hearing loss as do the characters she plays. She is most recently known for her starring role in the PAX-TV series, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. The show was loosely based on the true experiences of Sue Thomas, a woman with a profound hearing loss, who worked for the FBI in 1978 doing uncover surveillance by reading lips. Deanne played the character in the current time and her character worked with the FBI agents on the field more than the real Sue. The real Sue mostly watched videotapes transcribing suspects' statements by reading lips. [snip] Deanne's new series, Heroes, is a serial saga about people all over the world discovering that they have superpowers and trying to deal with how this change affects their lives. Deanne will play Emma, a woman with a hearing loss who will discover her power throughout the series. She has already appeared in the September 28, October 5, October 12, shows; her role as Emma will continue.

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"Keys to Successfully Living with Your Hearing Loss" Released

Neil Bauman has released his latest book, entitled "Keys to Successfully Living with Your Hearing Loss", which he describes as follows: "Hearing loss cuts you off from the hearing world in many ways, often leaving you depressed and with little self-esteem. The good news is you don't have to let things remain that way. When you put into practice the six keys explained in 'Keys to Successfully Living with Your Hearing Loss', a happier and more confident "you" will rejoin the hearing world-on your own terms." It's available at Neil's website

http://www.hearinglosshelp.com/products/books.htm#keys

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Hearing Loss and the Perception of Speech

A general strategy underlying hearing aid design is the selective amplification of portions of the input sound spectrum to compensate for a loss of hearing sensitivity. Major advances in engineering and fitting procedures have resulted in more successful hearing aid use in recent years (Kochkin, 2005). Nevertheless, the effortless understanding of speech enjoyed by people with normal hearing is not realized by many individuals with sensorineural hearing loss-even with amplification-because the effects of the loss are not limited to a reduction in sensitivity.

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This is a full-time 12-month position. At least a Master's Degree in Psychology or related field. Possess proficiency in sign language. Supervise a full array of clinical student/family support services. Collaborate with LEAs and families regarding enrolment and coordinate the PDE approval process. Coordinate the scheduling and completion of Biannual and Triennial multidisciplinary evaluations ERs, IEPs and standardized school-wide assessment services. Collaborate on the transition to school age process and the ESY/Summer Program.

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