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Deaf Led AI Governance October 8, 2026

The Record Belongs to the Signer: A Reply to Jeff Panasuik

In brief Jeff Panasuik’s “The Second Language Condition” argues that Google DeepMind’s SL2T removed gloss but kept the organizing logic that gloss used to expose: a written-English output target that decides what counts as success and what becomes the authoritative…

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Deaf-Led AI Assurance October 8, 2026

Silence Speaks: Built for the Moment of Access, Not Yet for the Moment of Failure

7 October 2026 · Heather M. Grizzle, Novara Consulting Group · Working record, pending Silence Speaks’ response *A transport product built with real care for the moment a Deaf passenger needs it, and very little for the moment it gets…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 8, 2026

The Sign Said Something Else

At CVG, an AI signer told Deaf travelers the wrong time and the wrong train. Everyone else on the platform got the truth. Then the clip became an ad.

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Strategic Risk October 8, 2026

The Sky I Don’t See

The ceiling The cabinet door gets me every time. Someone in the kitchen leaves it open, I turn from the sink, and the corner of it finds my forehead before I know it exists. It is not clumsiness, and it…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 8, 2026

Who Will Publish the Numbers? Deaf Education Data After the Education Department’s Deal With HHS

*The agreement that moved special education’s daily work to HHS also covers Gallaudet, NTID and the Helen Keller National Center, and it never says who will keep publishing the numbers* Every state file in the National Deaf Education Data Index…

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Deaf-Led AI Assurance October 7, 2026

UMI’s /sign: The App Is Launching, the Evidence Is Not Yet

*A sign language app opens to testers next week, and its own code says the translation models are not live yet* “A Deaf patient arrives at the ER.” The sentence is not NCG’s. It is the opening of a scenario…

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Deaf-Led AI Assurance October 7, 2026

Signapse: A Stop Right, Stated for One Product

*An investor’s congratulations, three questions, and a line Signapse drew in its own words* Picture a Deaf passenger on a station platform. The screen above her shows a digital signer, fluent and unhurried, telling her that her train is running…

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Deaf Led AI Governance September 29, 2026

The Price of Admission

Some of the state offices that serve Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing residents operate with a handful of staff and little room in their budgets for outside expertise. When those offices go looking for help, the conversation can end…

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Deaf Led AI Governance September 27, 2026

The Corpus Question

The face is the data In spoken and written language technology, the training data and the person can usually be separated. A sentence can be stripped of its author. A voice can be transformed until the speaker is unrecognisable and…

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