I am currently attending college in Atlanta, GA and was wondering if anyone could inform me of a school, community, or anyplace to continue learning American Sign Language? Even ... Read More

Has anyone used the Sebotek aid? I talked to a dispenser and the claim to work as good as digital. It looks more comfortable but would like any feed back. ... Read More

My name is Bambi and I have a 6 year old child in Kindergarden. She is deaf in one ear and had 2 years of preschool at our near ... Read More

Do you need a way to make a meeting or class accessible? You can't afford or find a professional realtime captioner or CART reporter? Consider hiring a trained voicewriter. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Today's young deaf people have access to technology and everything, but job search discrimination continues! A blog post by deaf skribbler describes a company's refusal to provide him an interpreter ... Read More

What's going on in our society? This weekend I came across not one, but three, recent deaf peddling-related blog postings: Adam Stone's posting, "Falling Through the Cracks," about a deaf beggar ... Read More

When people are both blind and deaf, they need a special type of interpreter called a deafblind interpreter. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

As I get more familiar with the deaf community blogosphere, I am quickly developing rules for what I will link to. My number one rule is quality - the ... Read More

Tyrone Giordano is one of the newest faces in young deaf Hollywood. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

I am hearing and i have always been very interested in ASL and in the Deaf Culture. I am just wondering if anyone can just tell me the basics ... Read More

The National Association of the Deaf is calling attention to the fact that, although we have legislation requiring captioning on television, this legislation DOES NOT apply to the internet. BUT ... Read More

Today I came across two cute blog posts about baby signing in the blogosphere: 1. I Want Candy - A parent describes a baby's repeated use of the sign for candy ... Read More

If you don't mind exclamation marks, you may enjoy reading this blog post in the blog "Journey from Silence to Hearing," by a mother explaining why her little boy is ... Read More

One of the newer national organizations in the deaf and hard of hearing community is Hands & Voices, a parent-driven organization that supports communication choice. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

A few years ago there was a company, Songbird, that made disposable hearing aids. They no longer do. Are disposable hearing aids available today from any other company? Has the ... Read More

Kinainjungle asks on the forum: Hi my name is Gina. I am doing a research paper on deaf children and divorced hearing parents. 1. How does the birth of a deaf ... Read More

The Washington Post, in its article ,"Increasingly, Wired for Sound" reports that estimates of the potential number of cochlear implantees in the United States is as high as seven million. ... Read More

Sooner or later, all deaf and hard of hearing people face the challenge of dealing with a workplace that has people either new to, or uncomfortable with, deafness and hearing ... Read More

Pete Townshend of The Who has been in the news this week, warning iPod users that they could lose their hearing. (See related news articles). Townshend is not the first ... Read More

Recently there has been a hot topic in medical news: the re-use of disposable medical devices in surgery. The articles I have read have given examples of cases where people ... Read More

The Sign Language FAQ page has been updated with the addition of a new FAQ page on sign language discussion lists. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Guest article on how to begin using sign language with your baby. Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

Deaf immigrant students are frequently turning up in our deaf classrooms, arriving with so little language they may not even know their own names. Such is the case with one ... Read More