Glove That Translates Sign Language

Communication is a challenge that electrical engineers are now helping the hearing impaired overcome, with an electronic glove that turns American Sign Language gestures into text.

"What it does is detects the position of the fingers and the position of the hand so it translates positions of fingers into letters," says Josý Hernandez-Rebollar, an electrical engineer at George Washington University in Washington.

The glove, called Acceleglove, has sensors that send signals from movements of the hand and fingers to a computer. The computer finds the correct word or letter associated with the hand movement and displays the text on the screen. Vinopol says: "It's important to have technology because it's an equalizer. It allows deaf people to function as their maximum within society."

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3rd L.S.M (Mexican Sign Language) Course

I just finished the course given by Miss Josefina Carballo Burquez who lost her hearing when she was 2 years old due to meningitis and an overdose of the medication prescribed for it. She practically learned the language by herself and formed the first association in the state to help people with language disabilities. An awesome woman!

Language is defined as the use by human beings of voice sounds and often written symbols representing these sounds in organized combinations in order to express and communicate thoughts and feelings. I would add signs to this definition of language, it is also defined as a system of words formed from such combinations and patterns used by people of a particular country or by a group of people with a shared history or set of traditions.
Josefina Carballo learned most of the language in an autodidact manner, due to the lack of L.S.M teachers and programs for hearing disability in the state. She has contributed to educate hundreds of children, which reminds me of the effect of a teacher in one's life.