Legislation under review in the U.S. Congress could lift the barriers deaf and blind people face when using the Internet and other online innovations like YouTube. The Equal Access to 21st Century Communications Act would give the Federal Trade Commission the power to set regulations for content providers and equipment involving the Internet. [...] more »

The California Deaf community believes that if this bill is passed in the Senate and eventually becomes law it will steer California toward eugenics again. ... [...] more »

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 »

Resolutions passed 130 years ago that banned the use of sign language in schools for the deaf have officially been rejected, and the signature of a South Surrey man is scrawled on the document that proves it. [...] more »

Last July 26, 2010, as the whole country prepared to witness history unfold as President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III delivered his first State of the Nation Address, educators and veteran interpreters from De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB), MCCID Institute of Technology, Philippine Deaf Resource Center, and the Philippine School for the Deaf together with Deaf leaders of the Philippine Federation for the Deaf (PFD) were making history as well by working together to make the first inset-interpreting of the SONA possible. [...] more »

Deaf and hearing impaired people will ask MPs to lend them an ear on a day in September they have dubbed "Be Heard Day". National Foundation for the Deaf ... Senior Power: “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. [...] 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Milan 1880 No Longer in Effect!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 »

Members of the country's deaf community are calling on South African lawmakers to include sign language among the official languages. ... [...] more »

Family and friends of Emomotimi Azorbo, a deaf protestor who was arrested Friday, waited at the west-end courthouse where all G20 bail hearings take place ... Deaf man charged with assaulting cops no protester, friends claimToronto Sun Deaf man arrested in G20 protest gets bailGlobe and Mail all 15 news articles » [...] more »

Recently the US Senate held a congressional hearing on legislation to improve access to the Internet and other technologies for blind and deaf individuals. [...] more »

A BUSINESSMAN is offering to pay the deposit for any independent deaf candidate to stand at the next Scottish Parliament elections. Writing in The Scotsman today, Jeff McWhinney said the barriers for a deaf candidate, such as the need for interpreters for British Sign Language (BSL), prevented proper representation of issues important to 100,000 Britons. And experts said Scotl ADVERTISEMENT and and its proportional representative list system would allow such a potential politician to break through for the first time. [...] more »

The internationally renowned Deaf Studies department at Bristol University faces closure within two years after a 75 per cent budget cut was ... [...] more »

Irish Deaf News 45 Irish Deaf News Brian Crean this week talks about: - Ryan Report - Thailand - Pfizer - Bristol University - Ronan Keating - Art theft in France - Weather. [...] more »

A report into a departmental review at Bristol University was "cherry-picked" to justify proposals to axe a degree in deaf studies, its author has claimed. ... TUC backs call to save Bristol deaf studies degreeBristol24-7 all 3 news articles » [...] more »

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will chair a hearing next week on legislation that would require technology companies, phone manufacturers and Web vendors to adapt their products for deaf or blind customers. [...] more »