On July 19, 2010, the International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED) made important history by rejecting their resolutions from 1880 that banned ... [...] 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 »

What many people don't realize is that the deaf in nearly every culture, and most countries, have their own unique language of signing. ... [...] more »

Steps To Success enables deaf and hard-of-hearing African-American, Latino American and Native American students entering 7th, 8th or 9th grade to explore ... [...] more »

THE Jamaica Association for the Deaf (JAD) has started a programme aimed at improving the education of hearing-impaired children through language and ... [...] 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Milan 1880 No Longer in Effect!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 »

"[Deaf students] would get at me for being so oral, like, 'What's wrong with you, why do you speak sometimes?' It was tough, and I got in a few fights ... and more » [...] more »

A system that allows deaf students to fully take part in mainstream education is being trialled in a Sydney school. About 10,000 Australian children with hearing loss stand to benefit. Under the system, the teacher wears a lapel microphone that transmits the audio to a captioner who uses a voice-to-text program to send the words to the student's laptop in under seven seconds. [...] more »

The main market would be in education, where the software can be used by deaf and nearly deaf people to follow lectures and presentations. ... and more » [...] more »

These children have committed no crime, they have nothing to be ashamed of — they are deaf. The deaf community is treated much like the female community in ... [...] more »

A Colorado nonprofit is partnering with an Afghan organization to build a school in Kabul for deaf children, who often face a bleak future with no communication skills or education. [...] more »

Greg Reese sends a message to his students that can be read only by the expression on his face and a gesture of his hands: You can be successful, like me. [...] more »

The Orthodox Union has created a new program to introduce Israel to one of the smallest minorities that exists among the Jewish People – that of the deaf and hearing-impaired. [...] more »

AAMAL, a non-profit organisation that assists the disabled, launched a new deaf-support programme on May 2 and announced the placement of 25 hearing-impaired children into local schools. The announcement was part of a series of events organised by AAMAL to mark Arab Deaf Week which ran from April 26 to 30. [...] more »

I WISH to draw attention to the slow progress in the implementation of effective treatment for deaf children despite a solution being available for several years. [...] more »