From The BBC: The 17-year-old making films fun for deaf children

[abqtommy]

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-58972808

(...)"Seeing my son be able to sit and understand the movie and see things he's not seen before in eight years, it's amazing."

For eight-year-old Toby, who is deaf, watching films or TV on streaming platforms can sometimes be a bit pointless - because so many of them don't have sign language versions.

"We have captions but they don't really do anything for him because it goes quite fast. He would just watch and not get much from it," his dad Jarod Mills tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.

But now, Toby has some help thanks to an app developed by a 17-year-old A-level student.(...)

It's encouraging for me/us to see what good/productive things can be accomplished
by one person. Much more text and photos at the link.

[malaise]

1. You post some amazing stuff

[marble falls]

3. My, my, my!

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Wonderful! Deaf people have a hard time understanding movies, the plots, etc. because ...

there are no aids, closed caption does help sometimes, but like they said, it goes too fast to adequately capture, understand. I use closed caption 100% of the time, thank god that they do have this feature but not all shows have the closed caption option available.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Why is signing better when the speed of reading is faster than the speed of signing? n/t

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Not everyone knows how to sign...a lot of older people didn't take up signing, so they do read,

it's a mix of what works best for each person.

[abqtommy]

7. According to the original op, some young children know how to make and read

signs but haven't learned to read text yet. Whatever works is good.

[Polybius]

8. I completely misread this post

I thought it said "From The BBC: The 17-year-old making fun of deaf children." I came in here expecting to be furious.

[abqtommy]

9. I'm sure you can find a suitable outlet for your fury. I'm glad you didn't use it

here!

[Hekate]

10. Just sent this off to my high school grandson who started learning ASL before the shutdown...

Hope he finds it as interesting as I do!