Nyle Dimarco | How Technology Can Enrich Deaf Lives | Talks at Google

Model, actor, and activist Nyle DiMarco has been breaking down barriers and winning over audiences since 2014. As a fan favorite on cycle 22 of America's Next Top Model, he became the second male winner and first deaf contestant on the hit CW series. The following year, partnered with Peta Murgatroyd, he took home the coveted mirror ball trophy on season 22 of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars. DiMarco has quickly become the face of not only the Deaf community but disabled people worldwide (1.4 billion people with disabilities worldwide and 466 million people with hearing loss). He founded The Nyle DiMarco Foundation, which focuses on bilingual education and aims to improve access to accurate information about early language acquisition. DiMarco is an inspiration to many and speaks all over the world, spreading the word of inclusion and acceptance. As a producer, Nyle is working on various scripted and non-scripted projects with the overall goal of telling new stories and empowering disabled people both in front and behind the camera.

This is a historical event for Talks at Google, because it is completely conducted through American Sign Language (ASL). DiMarco sits down with Google during our annual Accessibility Week to talk about Deaf culture, the mission and vision behind his foundation, and ways to reduce language deprivation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children through technological solutions. DiMarco discusses the need to include Deaf people in the process of new technological implementations and how important of an impact that will make on our world.

Moderated by Sam Sepah.

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