In 1988, deaf students at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, put their fight on the front pages when they blocked the school entranceways with signs, ... and more » [...] more »

In advance of next year's 150-year anniversary celebration at the Kansas School for the Deaf, Olathe's Deaf Cultural Center is busy filming “signed” oral ... [...] more »

Thunderous applause and tears greeted presenters at the 21st International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED 2010), which was held in Vancouver ... Historic Announcement Rejecting the Exclusion of Sign Language in Deaf EducationEarthtimes (press release) all 2 news articles » [...] more »

Helga Gross, a deaf child, was sterilized 1939 when she was 16. "They explained to the deaf children that they didn't want deaf children -- that they had to ... and more » [...] more »

Currently the International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED) is taking place in Vancouver. The conference website can be found here. A statement was put forward to the congress, on Milan 1880. [...] more »

Milan 1880 No Longer in Effect! About.com: Health On my way home today I saw on Twitter the news the deaf and hard of hearing community has been waiting for, for only over a hundred years: Today the ... [...] more »

Way back in 1880, deaf education suffered a major blow when the International Congress on Education of the Deaf voted to ban sign language from deaf ... [...] more »

Jewish tradition was not especially tolerant of subgroups. Deaf Jews, for example, were grouped together in the Talmud with the mentally retarded as exempted from religious obligations. In other words, they were not considered full Jews. [...] more »

He never heard the crack of the bat or the cheers from the crowd, but that didn’t stop him from earning a reputation as a strikeout pitcher. Esten “Dummy” Hanson, a deaf baseball player from western Minnesota in the early 1900s, was the focus of a presentation last week by author Jim Johnson at the Kandiyohi County Historical Society. [...] more »

I finally discovered it a few weeks ago while researching information on the history of East Knoxville. There it was in headlines in the Knoxville Daily Journal and Tribune of March 18, 1913: "Bloodthirsty attack upon occupants of a school for mutes. Negro Deaf and Dumb Institution scene of crime of appalling brutality." [...] more »

The American School for the Deaf and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art collaborated to create an installation celebrating Laurent Clerc titled “Connections Gallery: American School for the Deaf,” which will be on view through June 6. Clerc is a prominent figure in the history of deaf culture and Hartford. Clerc came to America from France in 1816 to help co-found the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, the oldest school for the deaf in the United States. [...] more »

An eighth grader on Long Island has launched a one-man campaign to try and save Helen Keller's summer cottage from demolition. Ian Toy, a student in Southold, will take his appeal to the Suffolk County legislator today to ask for $400,000 for restoration of the house, The Suffolk Times reported. [...] more »

In 1801, he admitted he was becoming deaf, a devastating blow because music was his world. Even with increasing deafness, Beethoven was able to compose the ... [...] more »

It was not until director Frank Steifel made "Ingelore" -- a 40-minute documentary about his mother's life as a deaf Jewish woman born in Kuppenheim, ... [...] more »

Moshe's deafness stems from the day an SS guard slammed a rifle butt into his head after the four-year-old failed to keep his hands above his head while ... The Difficulties Of Ageing Are Intensified For Holocaust SurvivorsGalus Australis all 518 news articles » [...] more »