Long ago, when I was seven years old, I read in an Archie comic book an Archie Club News letter that mentioned a deaf child. I never forgot this letter, ... Read More

The last time I posted about fun and interesting deaf things found on Ebay, it generated quite a bit of interest. So tonight, another Ebay "deaf" search turned up the ... Read More

The National Association of the Deaf has objected to the inclusion of the term "deaf and dumb" in a letter to the editor in People magazine. However, as forum member ... Read More

I'm new to this forum. Just found out recently my wife is losing her hearing. She has been hiding this from friends/family since she was a child. ... Read More

"I have been involved in theatre all my life. A friend of mine who is deaf and has had her two daughters in a number of my productions recently ... Read More

In Part 2 of the "Tammy Gets an Implant" serial, Tammy goes to an implant center to be evaluated as an implant candidate. Everything went well..but... Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Efforts are under way by the deaf community in the state of Virginia to try to save the historic Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind campus in Staunton, Virginia. ... Read More

Mildew6 writes: There's a heated debate going in the UK regarding cultural deaf using the DDA (The UK equivelant of your ADA). Disabled groups complained, sign using members ... Read More

Common challenge faced by new college grads with hearing loss: when to tell the new employer about it? Janessa514 asks this question on the forum. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Sometimes deaf people don't face discrimination just in the job search process; some face discrimination on the job itself. Grant Laird has written a blog post that links to such ... Read More

All About Deafness newsletters published from Jan. 28 to May 13 have been posted to the forum, under About Deafness Newsletters. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, so it seemed like an appropriate time to publish this new FAQ page, on hearing tests online. I would like to be able ... Read More

Bama3 writes: I am the mother of a hearing impaired 17 year old. He is a Junior in high school and completely mainstreamed. He has done very ... Read More

As guest writer Nancy Cadjan points out, babies do not have to stop signing once they begin to talk; indeed, as she explains, sign language can be useful in helping ... Read More

The Bionic Ear Blog has reported on the theft of a deaf student's cochlear implant speech processor. Is there an underground market in speech processors I'm not aware of? Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

A young deaf person with what appears to be a unique reason for being glad to be deaf, wrote: I am glad that i am deaf because at night ... Read More

Should churches pay church interpreters? That was the topic of a brief but stimulating discussion on the forum, now an article. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

You always hear people telling you to interact when you are learning sign language and that does make sense.. but what about those who stick to learning from videotapes and ... Read More

After almost 15 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), job search discrimination against deaf people persists. The article on job search discrimination has just been updated with the ... Read More

First it was the movie theaters, now it is the relay services. Although a business that had been stung by the "Nigerian scam" involving use of the relay services to ... Read More