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Milan 1880 No Longer in Effect!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 »

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 »

A campaign against plans to cut a deaf studies programme at Bristol University is being stepped up. An emergency motion was introduced at the start of the ... and more » [...] 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 »

Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) is pushing new legislation that would require technology companies, phone manufacturers and Web vendors to adapt their products to deaf or blind customers. [...] more »

THE televised leaders' debates have shown just how desperate the parties and politicians are to get their message across. But in arguably the most important general election in decades, almost 100,000 people have neither been spoken to nor heard in their own language. That's the estimated number of deaf people in the UK who rely on British Sign Language (BSL). They are the most ignored and invisible community on the political spectrum. [...] more »

An estimated 90000 deaf people in the UK rely on British Sign Language (BSL) to communicate - but only one political party has ever used it in its election ... and more » [...] more »