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Hello everyone, My wife and I are working on raising money to purchase media access equipment (captioning) for movie theatres in Des Moines, Iowa. We've raised about $6000 so far, and we still need to raise around $9000 more to purchase the first system. If you live near Des Moines, and...

Has anyone been to a theatre with one of these MoPix systems? MoPix – Motion Picture Access I'm thinking about trying to organize an outreach program through my church to set up a fund to help pay to get one of these installed at our local theatre. I'm interested in finding out how well...

2-Year-Old Dies After Being Left In Car - News Story - KCCI Des Moines So sad... This seems to happen every year. It's usually not intentional either -- someone just forgets where the kid is. It's too bad there's no way to make cars smart enough that if they sense that someone is in the...

Whelp, I've been learning sign for about a year now, and I finally had an opportunity to sign with my sister and her husband (he's been nerve deaf for a number of years). I just thought I'd share that it feels so great to be able to have a conversation with him again. Wow, what a difference...

My wife and I are learning ASL. Sometimes she comes to visit me for lunch, and we go eat a food court near my office. From time to time we'll practice sign at lunch, and we've noticed something really creepy. People will steal little glances at you all the time when you're signing. They...

Hi everyone. I'm new to this site. My wife and I are learning ASL, and my brother-in-law is nerve deaf. He suffers from neurofibromatosis, and lost his hearing in both ears when a bilateral tumor was removed from his brain. He was in his 20s when this happened. We decided to start learning...