AG Bell and YLN Facts
This AG Bell global initiative supports Deaf and hard-of-hearing young adults through leadership, professional growth, and community engagement opportunities.
What is the Young Leaders Network?
At Gallaudet University in the 1890s, football players developed this now-universal strategy to keep opposing teams from seeing the hand signals used to communicate plays.
What is the huddle?
This spiral-shaped structure of the inner ear contains thousands of tiny hair cells that convert vibrations into electrical signals the brain can interpret as sound.
What is the cochlea?
These adjustments or supports can help a student with hearing loss access instruction, participate in class, and demonstrate what they know without changing the learning objective.
What are accommodations?
This annual summer leadership program organized by AG Bell brings together high schoolers with hearing loss for self-advocacy training and connection?
What is LOFT (Leadership Opportunities for Teens)?
This film title describes a hearing child raised by Deaf parents, and the movie became the first film released by a streaming service to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is CODA?
This type of hearing loss involves damage to the tiny hair cells in the inner ear or to the auditory nerve that sends signals to the brain
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
This accessibility service provides real-time transcription of spoken words, either by a person present in the room or by someone providing the service remotely.
What is CART?
The words spoken by its inventor to his assistant on March 10, 1876—after an accidental spill of battery acid—became the first intelligible sentence transmitted using this newly patented technology.
What is the telephone?
The international competition now known by its current name began in Paris in 1924 as the “International Silent Games".
What is the Deaflympics?
This describes the time between hearing a sound and the brain recognizing, interpreting, or making sense of it.
What is auditory processing delay?
This assistive listening technology uses a microphone near the speaker and a receiver worn or used by the listener to transmit speech more directly across a room.
What is an FM system?
Founded by Alexander Graham Bell in 1887 using prize money from France, this famous Washington, D.C. institution later merged into the association that bears his name today.
What is the Volta Bureau?
This television drama became one of the first mainstream American series to feature substantial dialogue entirely in American Sign Language, including an episode that received widespread attention for having almost no spoken English.
What is Switched at Birth?
In 1978, this Australian otolaryngologist made medical history by successfully implanting the world's first multi-channel cochlear implant.
Who is Graeme Clark?
This company has developed technology to integrate closed captioning on phone calls and video conferencing.
What is Innocaption?
Considered a "father of the Internet" for co-designing the TCP/Ip protocol, this prominent AG Bell donor has progressive hearing loss and recently provided funding for the LOFT program.
Who is Vint Cerf?
Famous for playing a role that morphs into a green monster in the late 70's to 90's, this bodybuilder and actor lost 80% of his hearing as a toddler.
Who is Lou Ferrigno?
This neurological term describes the brain's ability to reorganize itself and interpret artificial electrical signals from a new cochlear implant as meaningful speech over time?
What is Neuroplasticity? (or Auditory Plasticity)
Built into the Bluetooth LE Audio standard, this public broadcasting technology allows a single transmitter in a theater, airport, or conference room to stream direct audio to an unlimited number of nearby compatible hearing devices.
What is Auracast?