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Modern Deaf
Communication, Inc.
Hosted by the
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Community Network
DACS
Danbury Area
Computer Society
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Morton Warnow, a long-time Danbury resident,
founder of Modern Deaf Communication, WW II veteran,
inventor, library patron, and friend to many,
passed away on Thursday, March 2, 2006.
Until further notice, the Modern Deaf Communication website will be suspended.
Any person interested in continuing this web site, please email the web master here.
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Obituary published 3/12/06 in the News Times, Danbury, CT:
Morton Charles Warnow
Morton Charles Warnow, 80, of Danbury, died Friday, March 3, 2006, after a brief illness. Morton was the son of the Lucky Strike Hit Parade bandleader Mark Warnow and his wife Sylvia Rappaport Warnow, and the nephew of jazz composer Raymond Scott.
Morton was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., grew up in Great Neck, Long Island, and received a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Hobart College. He served as an aerial gunner in World War II, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. Morton wrote a novel "Forced March" based upon his experiences as a Jewish POW after being shot down over Germany. He was a writer and inventor, most recently of devices to assist the deaf.
Morton is survived by two daughters, Tandy Warnow and Kimmen Sjolander; one son, Paul Warnow; and five grandchildren. He has one surviving sister, Sandra; two half-sisters, Josette and Suzanne; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.
He will be remembered for his brilliance, creativity and drive to make a difference in the world.
A private memorial service for family members will be held.
Morton's life was cut short by emphysema resulting from smoking cigarettes; donations in his memory can be made to the American Lung Association or to the Danbury Public Library which he visited regularly in the last years of his life. |
Modern Deaf Communication
A new deaf service organization providing needed educational, employment and communication services and products to deaf people in need need which no other deaf service agency, Federal or State Government Office, or school for the deaf is contributing.
Modern Deaf Communication, Inc. is a non-profit organization with IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status with a vision of promise and triumph over the problems of the deaf, but a vision based on hope and faith as much as on science and common sense. The worst problems of the deaf are terrible deaf illiteracy and unemployment which we believe can be wiped out in our time. We believe that the isolation and debilitating dependency on society suffered by the deaf can be vanquished and replaced with a new, strong sense of participation and belonging to the country and society of which they are citizens.
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Job Placement and Employment
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THE ENGLISH EDUCATION OF DEAF CHILDREN.
- NEW! THE WRITING COMMUNICATION METHOD OF READING-WRITING INSTRUCTION FOR DEAF CHILDREN.
Deaf children will learn English fast and well the way everybody learns English -- by communicating face-to-face in English with their teachers, parents and each other. They’ll use face-to-face keyboard communication equipment in the classroom and at home. Teachers and parents now have the tool they need to give deaf children the literacy skills they need for life. Teachers can now help create a thoroughly literate deaf society.
- NEW! THE ILLUSTRATED SIGN LANGUAGE-ENGLISH LANGUAGE DVD VIDEO DICTIONARY AND VIDEO STORYBOOKS OF WORDS & PHRASES FOR DEAF CHILDREN.
This new much needed teaching aid enables teachers to help deaf students learn English quickly. This DVD Video Dictionary enables deaf childen to immediately see the relationship between Sign Language and English. No other teaching aid does this. Teachers can now help deaf children acquire 25,000 word communicative vocabularies by the time they graduate from high school.
- TEACHING DEAF CHILDREN HOW TO TOUCH-TYPE.
Deaf children are taught to use their fingers to learn touch-typing as they are taught to use their fingers to learn sign language. The children learn that it is fun inventing their own keyboard exercises. They learn the keyboard in a week, achieve growing command in a month.
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COMMUNICATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
A FUTURE OF AFFLUENCE AND LIFE-FULFILLMENT.
Starting in this decade.
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A note to visitors to our website.
When used face-to-face, English is the “Money-Making Language of The Deaf.” Deaf people don’t need a college education to get a good job. If they have English skills, they can use face-to-face communication equipment to compete most effectively with hearing people for the same good jobs hearing people get. A money-making future for deaf job-seekers is out there waiting to be pursued and enjoyed.
Mark my words. Before this decade is up, we will see signs of new affluence achieved by members of the deaf community, but an affluence traced directly to the use of English face-to-face in the workplace. Deaf
people in English-dominant jobs with employers who never before hired deaf people for any jobs will become the norm. These will be jobs paying better money and offering greater job benefits and job security than the jobs deaf people have gotten in the past. This will happen because job-placement counselors will help make it happen.
Similarly, educators will be playing a new role in teaching deaf children how to read and write. They’ll be using the Writing Communication Method of English Instruction to give deaf children communicative English literacy by age 10. This method together with the new DVD Video Dictionary will enable teachers to produce deaf students graduating from high school with usable 25,000 word vocabularies. A very new and wonderful future awaits the deaf in the 21st Century. |
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