I have a 2 1/2 yr old hearing son. I am hearing as well. My husband is deaf. We speak fluent signlanguage in our home. My son knows about 15 ... Read More

JudicialLaw writes: Im a deaf Criminal Justice student looking to obtain information on the Justice system in the deaf community. Such as crime report on deafs, report on how ... Read More

According to the article "Seen and not heard" in the Weekend Standard (Feb. 26-27, 2005), China's Business Newspaper, Tianjin is home to a bilingual-bicultural school for the deaf, a deaf ... Read More

Having fun poking around Ebay for the more unusual deaf items...today's finds: An 1904 plate from Britain featuring two cats playing jump rope while surrounded by the British sign language alphabet. Whoever ... Read More

Seems like we have all heard of someone like this: a signing deaf child with a hearing parent who will not learn sign language. There have been times that I ... Read More

Spotted on Ebay today: a handcrafted batik with the ASL alphabet Posted with permission of Ebay seller made by deaf students at the Korforidua School for the Deaf in Ghana. An organization, ... Read More

Alabama's House Education Committee has approved a bill to make ASL a foreign language in Alabama's schools, as reported by The Decatur Daily and other news sources. Sign language is ... Read More

The snow may still be on the ground, but already thoughts are turning to summer plans for teenagers and college students with just a few months left in the school ... Read More

Below is an actual relayed ten-minute call between a deaf jobseeker and a prospective employer on Monday, 2/14/05. Note the insensitivity of the prospective employer's representative. And this is just ... Read More

I am thinking of becoming a certified yoga instructor. Due to my own hearing problems (I am hoh and wear hearing aids) and personal interest, I am thinking of also ... Read More

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) has established The Center of Excellence for the Study of Sign Language Interpreting. This Center could make a serious contribution towards improvement ... Read More

When MCI Ip-Relay set up the My IP Relay Number service, they accomplished something that may not have been the original intention: They have given deaf job-seekers an invaluable tool! ... Read More

When you are out in public in Washington, DC and see a group of deaf people signing, don't assume they are all deaf...one of them might be a Hearing Undergraduate ... Read More

Regardless of what your child's class may be studying at the moment, the Described and Captioned Media Program probably has something that will help to bring the topic to life ... Read More

Can an interpreter have a freudian slip? The other day at a meeting, the speaker said he was going to explain something. I saw the interpreter begin to sign, "go ... Read More

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