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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 1, 2026

The Contract Never Asked for the Draft

The Renewal Pine Lake Public Schools serves about 5,400 students across seven buildings, 740 of them on an…

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Deaf Led AI Governance November 1, 2026

Compared to Nothing: The Baseline Swap in Sign Language AI Sales

Two sources, one platform Picture the platform before picturing the procurement. A Deaf traveller steps off a moving…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 1, 2026

Thirteen States Are Public. Sixty-Four Percent of Their School Units Say Nothing.

On 28 September 2026 the first five state files reached release form, and on 31 October the thirteenth…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 29, 2026

Who Pays the Deaf Checker?

On 26 October, Meleia Michels, the Title VI and ADA coordinator for the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, wrote…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 29, 2026

Not No, Not Yet: What the FAA Said About the AI Signer at CVG

Three days ago I wrote that one complaint got an airport to take its AI signer down. That…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 29, 2026

More Compute, Same Question: Rylo, NVIDIA, and Whose Signing Gets Scaled

The rule behind every relay call I have used relay services for years, and there is a promise…

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Lived Experience October 29, 2026

Three Conditions, No Clock: What Minnesota State Services for the Blind’s Self-Employment Rule Requires, and What Happens Instead

The quiz On October 23, 2026, I spent an hour on Zoom with my vocational rehabilitation counselor at…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 29, 2026

Twice the Risk: Tanzania’s Deaf Patients and the AI Pitch That Scarcity Invites

“As if I was not a human being” Marietha Jonas is 24 and runs her own business in…

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Deaf Led AI Governance October 28, 2026

The Rules Came First: New Zealand’s Sign Language Board Tells AI Who Decides

A warning on Sunday The story ran on Te Ao Māori News, the news service of Whakaata Māori,…

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