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Deaf Led AI Governance November 13, 2026

Apple Could Have Bought the Avatar

The world’s most valuable consumer technology company put Deaf-directed human interpretation inside its streaming player and said plainly that AI-generated signing is not what the Deaf community asked for. Every institution buying sign language AI should read that as a…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 13, 2026

Present, or Included: AI, Placement and the Least Restrictive Environment for Deaf Children

The Placement Paragraph Every IEP ends, in practice, with a decision about where. Where will the child spend her school day, in which classroom, with which teachers and which other children, and how much of it outside a regular class?…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 12, 2026

Scores Without Footnotes: AI-Written Evaluation Reports and the Deaf Child

The Reevaluation Jordan, the fourteen-year-old from part seven who was born deaf and is losing her peripheral vision to Usher syndrome, was due for her three-year reevaluation in the winter. Federal rules require a district to reevaluate every child with…

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Deaf Led AI Governance November 11, 2026

The Screens Went Dark, the Standard Is Still Blank: CVG’s Final Answer on AI Sign Language

The platform, a month later The terminal train at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport runs the same loop it ran in October. It carries passengers between the main terminal and the concourses, and the platform screens still tell riders when the…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 11, 2026

The Screener Was Listening: AI, Child Find and the Children It Cannot Hear

A List in September Every September, Pine Lake’s kindergarten and first grade teachers sit each child down with a tablet and a headset for about fifteen minutes. The district adopted the screener three years ago from a list its state…

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Vendor Watch November 11, 2026

The Rate Came Out, the Contract Went In: GoSign’s Sign Language Factory Becomes a Research Study

A video and a link The video runs a few seconds. A man with a red beard and clear-framed glasses leans into his phone camera from a living room, ceiling fan turning behind him, signing with the energy of someone…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 10, 2026

Six Children, One Sentence: The Special Factors a Generator Cannot Write

Six Files After the Hearing The hearing officer’s decision in part six ordered Pine Lake to reconvene Nora’s IEP team and write her special factors from an evaluation in her own language.[^1] Dana did not wait to be ordered for…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI November 10, 2026

Counting Is Not Closing: Why We Built the National Deaf Education Data Index

When a letter from notice@ndedi.org arrives at a state school for the deaf, it lands on the desk of someone who has spent a career keeping a fragile institution open. They have watched enrollment numbers get waved around in budget…

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Deaf Led AI Governance November 9, 2026

The Interpreter Is Off-Brand: A Bad Employee Case Study for State and Local Government

The line In early October, a Justice Department lawyer stood before the federal appeals court in Washington and defended the White House’s refusal to put an American Sign Language interpreter beside the President at press briefings. Requiring a president to…

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