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People sit at Nelly Kate’s multisensory art installation ‘Into the Body, Into the Ground.’ Kate based the interactive art installation on her personal experience as a person who is late-deaf. COURTESY OF DIANA MCCLOY

‘Into the Ground, Into the Body’: Nelly Kate decenters sound in new public art installation

Camille Bugayong September 15, 2024
A multisensory public art installation that is accessible to people with disabilities debuted at a library in Roxbury on Thursday evening.
The annual ASL Ball. The Deaf Studies Club organized the ball to promote a positive space for the Deaf community and people learning American Sign Language. DIEGO CAZORLA-GARCIA/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

ASL Ball highlights unity between Deaf Studies faculty, students

Diego Cazorla-Garcia November 6, 2023
Students and faculty gathered together for the Deaf Studies Club's ASL ball, an annual event in which almost everyone speaks exclusively American Sign Language.
picture of discussion on zoom

BU Diversity, Inclusion hosts special education professor for discussion on history of disability movement

Kendall Richards October 14, 2021
Michael Wehmeyer presented the disability movement as three parts — professionals, parents and self-advocates.
WLL office

Intro level language classes to be held online for first weeks of semester, ASL for entire semester

Tanisha Bhat September 8, 2021
Difficulty of teaching and learning a language while wearing a mask resulted in the decision.
empty classroom in the college of arts and sciences

Online learning poses new challenges, advantages for faculty with disabilities, those in the Deaf community

Emily Stevenson March 22, 2021
Those with disabilities and in the Deaf community had more flexibility, restraints with pandemic.
A student in professor Andrew Bottom’s American Sign Language 5 class practices signing. Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences will count ASL as any other second language for its foreign language requirement. SOFIA KOYAMA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

CAS changes requirements for ASL as second language

Damian Walsh October 25, 2018
Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences has enacted a new policy updating the conditions for American Sign Language to fulfill CAS’s second language requirement.
Noah Jupe, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt and Millicent Simmonds plays in “A Quiet Place.” The film comes out on Friday. PHOTO COURTESY JONNY COURNOYER/PARAMOUNT PICTURES

INTERVIEW: ‘A Quiet Place’ is John Krasinski’s love letter to his daughters

Jenni Todd April 4, 2018

In “A Quiet Place,” silence equals survival. John Krasinski’s newest film, which follows a family hiding from monsters that hunt by sound, will premier in theaters nationwide Friday. A self-described...

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