Just added, a new Deaf Leaders category that will have profiles of today's leaders in the deaf and hard of hearing community. Despite the title, hearing people will be included ... Read More

What dates are special in the deaf and hard of hearing community? You will find them on the deaf events page. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Just updated, the profile of Dr. William Castle, former director of NTID. Added comments from an About Deafness visitor, an NTID alumnus. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Believe it or not, in an era of using technology to battle hearing loss, there are actually people who *want* to be deaf. Yahoo has a group just for them: ... Read More

Deafblind people seem to have an especially difficult time finding employment, judging from what RockHelper2 posted on the forum. Does anyone have any suggestions for her? Related: Helen Keller Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Oticon's newest hearing aids, the Syncro, have artificial intelligence. That means they actually do the listening for hard of hearing wearers. How much do these wizards of technology cost? They ... Read More

Before the doctor prescribes a drug for you, you might want to double-check to make sure the drug is not ototoxic, in order to protect whatever hearing you have left. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Did you ever have to move so that your child could get the deaf education services he/she needed? —abdeafness Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Just published, a short profile of the deaf actress Shoshannah Stern. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Deaf people in my community are saying that open captioning seems to be dying out because of the spread of rear window captioning...and after what happened at the theater today ... Read More

I just got a rude taste of why open captioning has a major advantage over rear window captioning. We went far from home to Silver Spring, MD, to the Consolidated ... Read More

Today's New York Times reports in an article on genetic pre-natal testing, that there is a test for deafness BUT many parents are not being told about it. A ... Read More

I continue to get e-mails from people desperate to get hearing aids that they can not afford. An About visitor e-mailed me about his solution - buying hearing aids cheap ... Read More

If there is anything that earlier generations of deaf and hard of hearing people have in common with today's cochlear implant and early-aided generation, it is the speech therapy experience. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

4my2Kids on the forum posted a poll asking an interesting question - For C.I. users, what is your favorite sound to hear? The poll lists the following sounds as ... Read More

Are you planning to get a cochlear implant for yourself or your child? Do you know what the first hookup experience will be like? Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Is cochlear impant better than digital hearing aids? I have a nerve damage which makes me deaf. I dont know much about them and just wondered if they are any ... Read More

Making a call to hearing people has never been easier with the growing array of options for making relay calls via the internet. (Likewise, hearing people can use the relay ... Read More

Holleyabc on the forum has posted two interesting polls: What was your education? and What are your feelings about the best education for deaf children? Below are the contents of ... Read More

It probably was the popularity of the movie itself, but today's screening at the Regal Entertainment UA Bethesda 10 in Bethesda, Maryland of an open captioned version of the third ... Read More

New poll on the forum: Did you grow up oral but now use sign language? With so many of today's parents focusing on raising their deaf children to be "oral," ... Read More

Do you know the qualifications of your child or teenager's interpreter? Many parents don't, and that results in substandard education for the deaf mainstreamed student. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

For something that has been said to cost as much as $60,000, a cochlear implant surgery is a surprisingly simple process. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

My deaf son came within fifteen minutes of missing his flight at National Airport today. At check in we were told to go to gate X. When we got to ... Read More

Websites in the deaf community may never be the same again now that SignLinking has been invented. Wonderful, useful guest article by Jan Richards (Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of ... Read More

Today the Marvin comic strip features two mature people discussing hearing aids. One of them remarks that the hearing aid business has changed the way they market hearing aids to ... Read More

I don't normally reprint entire newsletters on About.com, but I just got this forwarded to me by a friend and need to do my part to spread the word: there ... Read More