Hands On Communication is the result of my years working as a hearing person working in the deaf community as an American Sign Language Interpreter. When one is employed in the non-profit sector as a service provider to people with disabilities and a professional in the media business, I have begun come to understand that despite the digital revolution, convergence and edutainment there is still a gap in the research and the commercial marketing and communications for the deaf world and people with disabilities in general.
I hope to increase the body of language in this field through the use of digital technology to create entertaining way to educate the hearing world, as well as the sighted and general populations about sign language and how important it is as a non-verbal communication tool that can aid the hearing world as a teaching tool. Even more importantly, I hope to encourage traditional marketing and advertising agencies to market their products and services to the deaf population, and the blind population as well, through the use of new media.
I am hoping to travel to Germany this summer to research this issue and examine American Sign Language, ASI , and compare it to its international counterpart. Moreover, I hope to create communications products that I normally reserve for the hearing public and adapt it for the deaf community and its hearing and deaf family members who live in the deaf world. The goal is to attempt to bridge the gulf in part between the deaf community and the general public by raising the sensitivity to this very independent group of individuals. It is hoped that some hearing individuals outside of the hearing community will learn American Sign Language and encourage their children to do the same.
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