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An oboe for the brain
What do U-M profs, technology start - ups, and brain probes have in common?
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Photo highlights from the 2012 Sugar Bowl.
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A U-M study shows that kids + TV - supervision = unhealthy snacking.
'Hugo' and the history of movies
More than a fine family film, 'Hugo' is Martin Scorsese's homage to early movies -- and part of a tradition of films about film.
Surprise reunion
From Ghana to Michigan, a teacher and student meet again.
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(May 2nd, 2011)
It was less than a year before the "1988 DPN Movement" (Deaf President Now" at Gallaudet University in D.C.); There would elapse more than 4 years until the signing of the "Americans With Disabilities Act" in 1992.
A professor felt he had the choice to refuse to clip a lapel microphone with a transmitter so that I could more clearly hear his lecture. "Oh I have a loud voice. You will hear me without this microphone."
There were no laws backing up my request, at least none about which I was aware--nothing compared to the Americans With Disabilities Act, and an empowered deaf community, which also positively spilled over to hard of hearing self-advocates like myself.
Now 2011?
If I were a student now, I would request realtime captioning as well as a wireless *hearing clearly* device for all my graduate classes.
This is an enormous and welcome shift with University of Michigan: a model for access. Every yard of progress takes nine yards of blood, sweat and tears. We've come a long way and still have a long long way to go re: communication / human rights.
Cindy Shapiro
M.S. Neuroscience
1989
Rackham
Ann Arbor,