Working with a nonprofit that places workers with disabilities ended up being the perfect solution for a New York City cleaning company. [...] more »

A stroll around Harare’s central business district reveals that at several street corners, the deaf and dumb have joined the fray with other vendors, hustling for a dollar. Most of them sell an assortment of merchandise such as mobile phone recharge cards, sweets, wallets, Bibles and cigarettes. In order to have effective business transactions, one is called upon to learn sign language, for this is the only way through which a sale can be transacted. [...] more »

A group of deaf and dumb people who were tired of living from begging have come together to start income generating projects in Harare. ... [...] 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 »

Normally I am a firm believer in "deaf people can do anything except hear," but this story about a deaf man who wants to become a local police officer is ... [...] more »

The four-minute documentary is about the normal life of a deaf teacher. The film, which was also part of an online competition, received enough public votes ... [...] more »

A NEW restaurant opens in King Street, Blackburn, today. The Courthouse Restaurant is described as an innovative social enterprise project run by East Lancashire Deaf Society (ELDS). The aim is to create employment opportunities for deaf people, and to be a leading centre in catering and hospitality. [...] more »

Finland's first-ever deaf pastor was ordained on Sunday at Kuopio's Lutheran Cathedral. Master of Theology Janne Rissanen will begin work with the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission. [...] more »

"When I saw she was deaf and a pilot, I said, 'How can this be?' " Johnsson recently presented a paper on Willhite, who was born Nov. ... [...] more »

Monica Alfaro, who is deaf, will be graduating from SOU this June with a degree in criminal justice. The criminal justice program the reason she gives for picking the school School officials say Alfaro is the first deaf student to graduate from Southern Oregon University. [...] more »

Run by a 29-year-old Oxford MBA and staffed almost entirely by deaf people, Mumbai-based ‘Mirakle Couriers’ is a unique company whose internal operations we were long interested in. So we got PaGaLGuY’s Lajwanti D’souza to spend a day at Mirakle Couriers and accompany a hearing-impaired delivery boy through the concrete jungle of Mumbai’s commercial Fort area and witness for herself this miracle of social entrepreneurship. [...] more »

The health care industry offers few high-paying job opportunities for the deaf, but that could change in the next few years. ... and more » [...] more »

... students are deaf, but it illuminates a fact few in the public are aware of: Grasmick got a master's degree in deaf education in 1965 from Gallaudet. ... [...] more »

While technology continues to improve, security gets tighter. This has become a challenge for communication devices designed to give people who are deaf and hard of hearing a "voice" in the workplace. For the first time there is a video phone that is compatible for corporations and government agencies that have firewalls. This device is slowly making its way into the business world. [...] more »

Motorists heading into the YY Snow Wash and Polishing car wash area in Jalan Merbau here willd be greeted with utter silence except for exchanges of hand signals among the workers who are mostly speech-impaired and deaf. Yet, their apparent disability does not prevent them from operating the car wash competently. [...] more »