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 »

LINLITHGOW is set to become the most deaf-friendly town in the UK — after a new training initiative was launched this week by Donaldson's School. [...] more »

EVERY school in Wales will this week receive a special poster created by deaf children to raise awareness of the classroom difficulties they face. ... [...] 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 »

The “Friends of Montfort” are a group of Haitian/Americans who support a school in Haiti for deaf and deaf/blind children. One of the school's three ... [...] more »

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

... 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 »

The School of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences has suspended the American Sign Language / deaf studies concentration as of last fall semester after the College of Health and Human Services took a cut of $1.5 million last year, according to Beverly Wulfeck, director of the School of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. [...] more »

A UNIVERSITY centre that has played a "trailblazing role" in deaf studies could be forced to close its degree course amid money-saving cuts. Staff and students from the University of Bristol turned out in force yesterday to protest against the potential closure of the BSc Deaf Studies degree programme, something they allege would cause a critical shortage of sign language interpreters. [...] more »

ASL has been “a mecca for the deaf community”— deaf, hard of hearing and children with deaf siblings or parents — for 102 years. Patti Anderegg, who’s taught there for 33 years, notes these “are the only schools in the United States that educate deaf and hearing students together in general education classrooms with staff who are fluent in ASL.” [...] more »

"That is, develop new approaches to reaching out to people who are deaf ... finding innovative ways to meet their educational needs. ... [...] more »

The fact that Mark Marchant ’11 speaks Tanzanian Sign Language is not the only thing that sets him apart... Marchant, who is in the process of developing a multimedia Montessori curriculum for a school for deaf students in Bukoba, Tanzania, is a busy guy. [...] more »

Earlier this year, the 68-year-old Hurwitz, who is profoundly deaf, became the 10th — and first Jewish — president of Gallaudet University, the renowned ... [...] more »

At first glance, it's a religion class like any other. The teacher projects an electronic slide on the wall with an ... [...] more »