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Inside this Issue

	Entire issue 6,824 kb
	Interview 94 kb A few years ago, Morgan Greene, the only deaf student at Bayshore High School in Sarasota, FL, told his mother he wanted to communicate directly with hearing people instead of having to use an interpreter. His mother and father explored some technology with iSolutions and came up with a solution of their own. It is called the iCommunicator™ system. The iCommunicator system changes typing to speech and has a sign language dictionary.
	Update 54 kb Stories Include: What Sites We Will See—It’s a Big Deaf Web; Sports—Deaf World Games; Humor—Received through E-mail; Deaf and Blind—Off and Winning
	Lobey: Life of a Hearing Aid 114 kb By Kelsey Brown
	A phone of our own 145 kb Today, thousands of calls are handled every day through TTY relay. Deaf people use this service to call various places and people, such as doctors’ offices, hearing friends and family members, and pizza parlors. Perhaps this technology would not be available if not for the ADA—and the work of three deaf men.
	The High Tech Voyage on Air Force One 205 kb When President Bill Clinton wanted to spotlight improvements in technology for disabled people, he summoned the man he calls “Mr. President.” In this case, “Mr. President” is Dr. I. King Jordan, president of Gallaudet University.
	Jolanta (Cover Story) 141kb Jolanta Lapiak is most famous as a founder of the Deaf World Web. When she posted the Web site in 1995, deaf people around the world could click in to a single informative Internet place to learn news about deaf people and deaf-related issues. With Deaf World Web, the deaf community became international.
	Biking Across a Continent 5127 kb Beverly Buchanan, dean of Student Services at the Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf, in Texas, is an avid cyclist. Below, Buchanan remembers a bike hike across North America that she did with three other deaf cyclists.
	The Internet as a Business 61 kb Deaf experts make an impact.
	Technology Activity 308 kb by Jean Andrews and Denise Hazelwood
	Students' Work 362 kb A selection of four poems by Deaf students.
	Teachers' Guide 45 kb Guide and activities designed to help teachers and students get more out of this issue.