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UPS (begun in 1999) was the first equal opportunity employment class action brought on behalf of deaf and hard of hearing workers throughout America concerning workplace discrimination. It established legal precedence for deaf and hard of hearing employees and customers to be fully covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Key findings ...
The Association was originally created as the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (AAPTSD). In 1908 it merged with Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Bureau (founded in 1887 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge relating to the deaf"), and was renamed as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf in 1956 at the suggestion of Mrs. Frances Toms, the ...
1. The convention, considering the incontestable superiority of articulation over signs in restoring the deaf-mute to society and giving him a fuller knowledge of language, declares that the oral method should be preferred to that of signs in education and the instruction of deaf-mutes. Passed 160 to 4. 2.
Dragon launches Dragon Dictate, the first speech recognition product for consumers. [1] 1993: Invention: Speakable items, the first built-in speech recognition and voice enabled control software for Apple computers. 1993: Invention: Sphinx-II, the first large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition system, is invented by Xuedong Huang. [6 ...
Phonak's latest technology focuses on clarity of conversation to better understand speech in noisy environments. Hearing aid models like Phonak's Lumity line distinguish between speech and ...
The American Speech–Language–Hearing Association (ASHA) is a professional association for speech–language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally. The association reported over 234,000 members and affiliates in its 2023 report.
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The Volta Laboratory which Bell used from 1885 to 1922 Side of the Volta Bureau in 2022. From about 1879 Bell's earliest physics research in Washington, D.C., was conducted at his first laboratory, a rented house, at 1325 L Street NW, [8] and then from the autumn of 1880 at 1221 Connecticut Avenue NW.