Staffers at the Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave Spring are waiting for final word before analyzing the impact of the Deaf Child’s Bill of Rights — but director Lee Shiver already is pleased. “When you consider its effect on raising awareness, that’s the part that’s the most meaningful,” he said. [...] more »

Advocates for blind and deaf students in Oregon say they're opposed to a recommendation that two state schools for them be merged in Salem. A study by the state Department of Education staff earlier this month cited costs and declining student enrollment as a reason to merge the School for the Deaf with the School for the Blind. [...] more »

A Nebraska firm specializing in telecommunications for the deaf said Friday it will establish a center in Frostburg to serve Maryland residents under a $32 million state contract. [...] more »

Rosaline Hayes-Crawford from the National Association for the Deaf says, "People who are deaf and hard of hearing have been left out of going to the movies, wonderful American cultural experience, because they don't have access to the sound track." [...] more »

The view that the entire population is quite aware of the dreaded disease, HIV/Aids may not be the case after all. Staring straight at a language interpreter, trying to help communicate to a group of deaf people makes one understand this. [...] more »

Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals can now use Sorenson VRS Espanol to place the equivalent of a phone call to any hearing individual who speaks Spanish. [...] more »

Born deaf in thinly populated farm country, Castle never learned to sign, speak or write anything more than his name. Yet he left a tremendous output of artwork, which began to receive national recognition during the late '60s. The Boise Art Museum owns a large cache of his work. [...] more »

At 19, this deaf and dumb girl already has two children not because she wants to be a mother, but because some unknown men had taken advantage of her. [...] more »

The 300,000 Americans who are profoundly deaf really do share a distinct experience, and Through Deaf Eyes makes it vivid for outsiders in a lively, succinct way. No handicaps here, just a "poetical" language, a tight sense of community, and a growing pride that what once was segregated came to develop its own set of discrete characteristics worth preserving and celebrating. [...] more »

Applications are invited for a visiting fellowship to the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre. [...] more »

The Organisers are pleased to invite you to participate in the 2nd International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity (LED 2007). The conference is to be held 21-24 November 2007 at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand [...] more »