The Department of Deaf Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, in cooperation with European Deaf Research of Sign Language (EDRSL) is organizing an international symposium entitled "Deaf Studies: Strengthening Our Heritage." This will be held September 1st-3rd, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. [...] more »

The book describes the historical-cultural account of hearing people and their position on American Sign Language and deaf people during 1850 to the present ... [...] more »

The story's closely observed middle section, in which Dr. Jean-Marc Itard of the Institute for Deaf-Mutes in Paris tries to teach Victor speech and reason, ... [...] more »

When Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet met a 9-year-old deaf neighbor, he was determined to find a way to communicate with her. ... [...] more »

The action takes place in a small town in Georgia in the 1930's, and revolves around a central character, John Singer, who is deaf. ... [...] more »

NTID President Alan Hurwitz, retirees Paul and Sally Taylor and NTID's first deaf faculty member, Robert Panara, each participated with a 40-minute conversation with an interviewer. Some of the topics were about NTID, and some topics were about their experience growing up deaf. [...] more »

The eight short documentaries, compiled on a 220-minute DVD, are the work of two Austrian linguists and advocates for the deaf, Verena Krausneker and ... [...] more »

Meet Richard Norris, a shoemaker from 19th-century Virginia. He supported a family. He attended church. But unlike many other people in the 19th century, Richard Norris was a deaf man who used sign language. You may have come across a relative in your family history research identified as “deaf and dumb,” “deaf mute,” or, unfortunately, sometimes as “imbecile.” But if you failed to delve a little further into the life of that deaf relative, you may have made a huge mistake — the deaf world has rich genealogical collections that you may not know about. [...] more »

September is "Deaf History and Awareness Month", not simply "Deaf Awareness Month", explains Philadelphia native and founder ... [...] more »

Thomas H. Gallaudet, the teacher of the deaf and dumb. Because the deaf could not hear language sounds, he created a sight method whereby the deaf would ... [...] more »

The term "deaf and dumb" came from the Nazi regime. [...] more »

Now Keller, who went deaf and blind before the age of two, but was able to find her way out of here terrible fortress of darkness and silence to become of world-wide figure based on here tireless advocacy of progressive causes, will be honored in October with a larger-than life statue in the United States Capitol, along side "Fighting" Joe Wheeler, a celebrated Civil War and United States general. [...] more »

Several new "stumbling blockand" memorials throughout Berlin recall deaf Jews persecuted in the Holocaust. [...] more »

Helen Keller lost her vision and hearing before age 2. But with help from her tutor, Anne Sullivan, Keller learned how to speak, ... Karen's Korner: No Challenge Too Great ... [...] more »

Several new "stumbling block" memorials throughout Berlin recall deaf Jews persecuted in the Holocaust. Several members of this nearly forgotten sub-category of victims were remembered this week with the installation of the bronze ... [...] more »