Francis was recently elected senator (College student president) at Ohlone College in Fremont California becoming the first ever black deaf student to achieve that feat. [...] more »

About 60 participants - some from as far away as Holland and Japan - are attending the annual Deaf-Blind Retreat this week at the Seabeck Conference Center. ... Seabeck deaf-blind retreat draws worldwide guestsSeattle Post Intelligencer all 11 news articles » [...] more »

The Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) has presented Derbyshire Constabulary - and Chief Constable Mick Creedon - with its Louder than Words charter mark for improvements in the way it communicates with deaf people. [...] more »

For 23 hearing-impaired Timorese students, having Mr Alvan Yap (picture) volunteer at their school means they can attend class five days a week, instead of only three days a week before he began teaching them in January. It also means that they can learn a standardised sign language, which will help them communicate better with fellow Timorese. [...] more »

A United Parcel Service of America Inc. unit may have unlawfully discriminated against a deaf worker by failing to provide American Sign ... [...] more »

A tradition of viewing deafness as a divine punishment is giving way in Nepal to greater ... [...] more »

Tara Thorn is packing her bags and leaving her home in Rochester to take on the daunting task of establishing a new school for the deaf in ... NTID Grad Offers Help to HaitiRIT News all 3 news articles » [...] more »

JEDDAH: Malls and other public places in Jeddah are hosting the first Saudi campaign that aims to teach members of the public the sign language. The main goal of the “Amongst Us A Deaf Person” initiative is to increase the awareness about how to interact with the deaf and hard of hearing. [...] more »

Question of the Week: Last week The Eye reported on Office of Personnel Management workers hoping to learn sign language to communicate with a deaf coworker ... and more » [...] more »

In the course of his travels, he meets a deaf 103-year-old war correspondent who hasn't left his apartment in 24 years, a dotty widow who lives on the ... and more » [...] more »

In a Dispatches documentary to be shown on Channel 4 tonight, a British-born Pakistani woman tells how childhood deaths and deafness plagued her family ... Great Ormond Street said it was preparing to treat more children born blind or deaf, and genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anaemia, conditions which seriously affect people all their lives. Doctors said growing numbers of people from Asian countries such as Pakistan, where marriages between first cousins are more common, were expected to settle here. [...] more »

He is deaf and dumb but that is not enough to prevent him from shining in the world of art. Born on August 18 in 1963, Pamuyu Green Mbale, originally from ... [...] more »

CommunityID, a partnership of deaf and hearing professionals, has received almost £500,000 from the Big Lottery Fund to provide free deaf and interpreting awareness training to 250 voluntary organisations and communities in London. [...] more »

Or is deafness not a disability or an illness, as the deaf community states? Hearing is good when someone is tailgating you on the sidewalk and you can't ... [...] more »

The deaf and hearing-impaired will get potentially life-saving advice from a DVD on emergency planning launched today, Civil Defence Minister John Carter ... [...] more »