Sept. 21: New Location for Long Island Chapter Meeting (Time TBD)
HLAA – North Shore Long Island has been the sole chapter on Long Island for over 10 years and includes members from Queens to Montauk Point. The chapter has been holding meetings in Eastern Queens for a long time due to the majority of members attending who live in that area. However, we now have an…
Video Captions Benefit Everyone
New York Times, April 3, 2020 To the Editor: In 2015, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, published an article in the journal Policy Insights From the Behavioral and Brain Sciences entitled, “Video Captions Benefit Everyone.” She reviewed more than 100 studies on the benefits of video captioning and found that captioning “improves…
Westchester County News
March 31, 2020. Jimmy Fallon, in a special Tonight Show broadcast from his home where he is self-quarantined, started the show by saying “Welcome to Quarantine Day 86.” His wife immediately corrected him by saying “It’s only Day 6,” to which Jimmy responded, “Yeah, but it feels like 86 days.” As we’ve all been forced…