For the blind and deaf, going to a movie -- and following the plot -- may seem like a near impossibility. A recent Massachusetts settlement, however, may make it easier for them. The three largest movie theater chains in Massachusetts will undergo renovations to make their movies more accessible to the disabled because of a settlement reached by Attorney General Martha Coakley. [...] more »

FLINT — A deaf woman who struggled for two weeks to communicate with doctors and nurses as she underwent tests and was diagnosed with kidney cancer now is ... [...] more »

Early in 2009, the Government publicly announced that deaf persons would soon be able to acquire a driver's licence legally. The deaf community was very ... [...] more »

She and Lilly Crisman, a teaching specialist at Pasadena City College who is deaf, are "sensory disabled," Griesmer said. For her, the issue isn't so much ... [...] more »

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If you were deaf and hospitalized, chances are you wouldn't have had a sign-language interpreter. [...] more »

So instead of being one large market share of 54 million, Strauss explained, they're divided into smaller individual markets of blind, deaf, deaf blind, ... Event in South Park to celebrate 20th anniversary of Americans with ... [...] more »

A DEAF, 80-year-old man charged with the attempted murder of his son-in-law was ordered to remain in custody yesterday. [...] more »

The barriers should not be seen as linked to their 'deafness' but the failure of society to accommodate their differences. [...] more »

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

A federal judge in Los Angeles approved a consent decree Friday resolving a lawsuit alleging Ventura County violated the Americans with ... Justice Department Resolves Lawsuit Alleging Disability Discrimination by ...PR Newswire (press release) all 11 news articles » [...] more »

A deaf woman who took a legal challenge after she was disqualified from serving on a jury has won part of her case in the High Court. [...] more »

Also, Brodie is deaf and doesn't speak clearly, but police didn't use an interpreter for about half of their interviews. "I want people to know that I'm not ... and more » [...] more »

According to the Washington Examiner, there was a distribution on Friday of "what could be described as homophobic and anti-deaf fliers at the department's major crash unit. The fliers--titled "Celebrating D.C.'s First Deaf Mute Gay Marriage"--were passed around the unit. A photo of two male employees throwing gang signs are described as newlyweds and goes on to describe how the couple will engage in "naked sweaty man love." An unidentified law enforcement source confirmed that the photo was taken by another officer on the force using a cell phone. [...] more »

Lawrence Murphy, who is believed to have assaulted more than 200 boys at a school for the deaf in St. Francis, Wis., between 1950 and 1974. [...] more »