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Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Educators increasing use of video streaming for the deaf - Ohio News Network
Pastor Fred Adams is relying on video-streamed classes to expand enrollment at Sword Deaf College, a suburban Cincinnati religious college he founded to train people to minister to the deaf. "Students who cannot attend classes at deaf colleges or universities can take courses online this way," said Adams, who lost his hearing at the age of 8 months. While videotaped instruction has been available to the deaf and hard of hearing for years, tapes _ and later CDs and DVDs _ had to be kept and stored and required students to have the equipment to view them. Video streaming allows easy viewing of large video files that can be offered live or pre-recorded. Now it also allows the quality of transmission needed to view sign language. In the last couple of years, more communities have gained access to affordable high-speed connections with broadband, cable and DSL (digital subscriber line) and that has allowed more deaf people to benefit from video streaming," said Stephen Campbell, manager of technology support services at National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y.
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