Today's deaf and hard of hearing kids have it SO good. Now they can choose earmolds with SpongeBob, Dora the Explorer, or other characters. Starkey Laboratories just signed a deal with Nickelodeon/Viacom to feature these figments of the imagination on co-branded earmolds. This may make kids more accepting of their earmolds. I have to admit, if Batman and Robin had been available on my earmolds when I was a kid, I might have looked forward to getting new earmolds instead of dreading it! [...] more »

Playing at London's Royal Festival Hall in the presence of Prince Edward might seem intimidating but Lloyd is used to big challenges, having been born deaf and visually impaired. Lloyd says he finds it easier to hear music than speech. Matthew Richards reports. [...] more »

A final act features Lelani and her deaf friend Mandy. Lelani stops to pick up Mandy and take her to a mutual friend’s birthday party, but when she arrives, she finds that Mandy is not quite ready because she has been busy making peanut butter cookies The pair uses the opportunity to share a number of signs with the audience regarding the ingredients in the cookies. [...] more »

The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) has demanded better protection for deaf children after research suggested they are being failed by social care services. Deaf children are more than three times as likely to suffer abuse as hearing children and two in five (40%) will experience mental health problems. Yet a survey for NDCS found three out of five authorities providing social care did not regard a deaf child as a "child in need", although the Children Act 1989 includes them in that definition. [...] more »

Deboo said that a proposal to select street children and upgrade their dancing skills is under active consideration. The choreographer, who is noted for his contemporary and modern Indian classical dance styles, said his priority is to select deaf and dumb children so that he could also work with them. [...] more »

A dare-devil deaf and blind Redruth teenager will reaching new heights to help her school. Susie-Jo, aged 16 plans to abseil 140ft down the front of the old ... and more » [...] more »

A comedy film written and directed by 13 deaf teenagers from Northern Ireland, including one from Holywood, has been nominated in the ... [...] more »

New York Sea Grant and the Boating Industry Association of Upstate New York are partnering with AURORA OF CNY to offer deaf youth boater safety training in ... and more » [...] more »

At an age when most children are struggling with their first words, Mia Jones was already chattering away in sign language. The six-year-old girl has been using the language of gestures and expressions since she was eight months old and was as fluent as an adult by the age of three. Though she has perfect hearing, her parents Craig and Jacqueline are both deaf. [...] more »

'We think of deaf children as being part of a linguistic minority group. We don't think of deafness as a "disability or impairment", but as a positive ... and more » [...] more »

* [thumbnail] Young people from Nepal and the UK, who have been taking part in a deaf-exchange volunteering scheme in Preston, will this week stage theatre shows in two North-west cities. Some 18 young people with hearing impairment from the UK and Nepal will take to the stage to perform two free shows, to celebrate the culmination of the first leg of the Deaf Xchange volunteering programme. [...] more »

DEAF schoolboy Jason Warman has the perfect way to communicate with mum Michelle - sending her letters via his DOG. And her favourite message ... [...] more »

At the height of public-service broadcasting in Britain, Pat Keysell introduced a generation of deaf and hard-of-hearing children to television in Vision On, the first programme successfully to bridge the gap between those groups and hearing viewers. The innovative presenter, who had studied mime at drama school, combined sign language and speech in a show that originally featured magicians ... [...] more »

A NORTH East-based website which reads stories to deaf children using sign language and animation has won a top human rights award. Signed Stories, run by Gateshead's ITV SignPost, won the Doing IT Differently title at the Human Rights People of the Year awards hosted by disability network RADAR. [...] more »

HONOLULU — Some 112 public school children who are deaf or hard of hearing got to tell "Deaf Santa" what they want for Christmas yesterday at Pearlridge Center. But absent were about 20 of their Neighbor Island buddies, whose school districts couldn't afford the flights to Oahu this year. [...] more »