Whether you are deaf and Asian yourself, a parent of a deaf Asian child seeking role models, or a researcher, this updated article on Deaf Asian Americans has something for ... Read More

For years, college students everywhere have relied on About.com and About Deafness as a research resource. When I received the following e-mail from one such college student, Jim Dakis, who ... Read More

Janeeta asks on the forum: There are some audios on the internet that I would like to be able to hear. I do not wish to nor have the money to ... Read More

If you receive the About Deafness newsletter, you know that I recently started spotlighting a blog or vlog each week at the top of the newsletter. My question to you ... Read More

Talladega, Alabama is home to one of the oldest schools for the deaf. Did you attend the Alabama school for the deaf? Do you have any memories to share with About ... Read More

When deaf people go to prison, they are not totally forgotten. There is a deaf prison ministry network that offers them and their families assistance. In addition, there have been ... Read More

The deaths at Virginia Tech this past week reminded me of what happened at Gallaudet University several years ago when two deaf students, Benjamin Varner and Eric Plunkett, were murdered ... Read More

Codaspouse asks on the forum: I am in the military stationed overseas for the next three years. I was wondering/hoping if someone could help me. My wife was a ... Read More

The jury has decided on the penalty in the trial of Daphne Wright. They chose life in prison. Don't know yet if she will be the only deaf person in her ... Read More

Here is a baseball double: First, a new profile on a deaf baseball player from long ago, Dummy Taylor. Next, the article on Dummy Hoy has been updated with new ... Read More

I just read an article in today's Washington Post magazine about a teenage hearing girl with dyslexia. The girl was helped by modern technology and I noticed that most of ... Read More

AbnormalDiversity writes on the forum: I am a hearing autistic. I'm trying to learn sign language. Right now I'm trying to decide how to sign the word 'autism'. My ASL dictionary gives ... Read More

About.com has a brand-new "Symptom Checker" website. I explored it to see if there was anything that could benefit the readers of this site. There is. When you first load the ... Read More

A milestone was passed sometime today: Dianrez was the 1,000th person to post a comment on the About Deafness blog. (Comments have been allowed only since April 2006). She was ... Read More

A verdict has been announced in the Daphne Wright trial. According to the Argus Leader blog, the verdict is guilty on all three:Guilty of first-degree murder, felony murder, AND kidnapping. The ... Read More

Today's deaf and hard of hearing kids can select glittery, glow in the dark, swirled, multiple-hued earmolds. Hearing aids also come in colors. Yet all the grownups with hearing aids ... Read More

There is a real hunger out there for good, reasonably reliable demographic statistics on the deaf and hard of hearing community. If only we had a website where people ... Read More

An About visitor made me aware that there is a deaf author in the United Kingdom who has written many children's books. Her name is Joyce Dunbar. She has done ... Read More

The About Deafness Classic, "Hearing Dogs," has been updated with new information. A link to the hearing dog photo gallery has also been added. Wanted: more pictures for the hearing dog ... Read More

StarFan asked a question on the forum that generated quite a bit of discussion about what defines acceptable competency in ASL: Right now I am studying ASL at a local community ... Read More

Caretakers for a pregnant deaf dolphin are working to find ways to help the hearing calf it is carrying, learn to hear and speak. More details are in this wire ... Read More

Computer Assisted Realtime Translation has been around for awhile, but now alternatives are emerging, such as Typewell. A small paper, The Leaf Chronicle, reported on the certification of a Typewell ... Read More

There are plenty of newspaper articles on the Wright trial, but the Argus Leader blog has details that have not appeared in newspaper articles. This blog is reporting the trial ... Read More

Annafreud2 writes on the forum: ...I am a doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at Fordham University in New York. I am currently recruiting participants for my dissertation research on Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing cultural and ... Read More

Just finished watching tonight's Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode, "Silencer," that had a deaf storyline. My personal opinion: weak plot line, tired theme of cochlear implant = cause of ... Read More

The trial of Daphne Wright has begun, and according to the report in the Argus Leader, they are bending over backwards to ensure a fair trial with complete accessibility for ... Read More

This article in the Kentucky Courier-Journal, "Can you fix my ears?" (Sunday, April 1, 2007) quotes an audiologist as saying that two (bilateral) cochlear implants have become a "gold standard." ... Read More