An About.com visitor wrote: My 3 year-old w/ Down Syndrome has unilateral hearing loss in the left ear. At his first appointment with the ENT, we were told that ... Read More

Imagine that you are a little deaf boy who needs to be around signing peers to have a better social life. The school for the deaf refuses to admit you ... Read More

Kimmiegia posted on the forum about a cousin who had had Traumatic Brain Injury from a car accident. Following the accident, the cousin was hard of hearing in one ear, ... Read More

Today (July 27) a small group of deaf protestors showed up at the site where the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing was holding its ... Read More

She may not be as prominent as Marlee Matlin, but Terrylene is building quite an acting resume. Have you seen Terrylene perform in any of her roles on stage or ... Read More

Earlier this week, the writer of the Many Choices, One Deaf World blog wrote in a posting about culturally deaf people who choose to get cochlear implants. One of the ... Read More

A young deaf and legally blind man is getting his Ph.D. in a chemistry field. Quite an accomplishment for anyone, hearing or deaf, sighted or unsighted. I wonder if the ... Read More

If anyone has any doubt that sign language is a language, they may want to check out an upcoming book, "Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind." The ... Read More

A press release brought to my attention the fact that an Americans with Disabilities (ADA) Restoration Act is going to be introduced in Congress on July 26. According to the ... Read More

Although this article in the Christian Science Monitor (July 19, 2007), "Braille Literacy Flags, Even as Technology Makes it More Urgent," is not about deafness, reading it I thought I ... Read More

Few causes of deafness are as devastating as Usher Syndrome. An About.com visitor wrote to ask if there are any car bumper stickers that support research into treatment of usher ... Read More

Forget road rage. Now we have sign language rage. In Anchorage, Alaska (Boston.com, July 17, 2007), a hearing man misinterpreted a deaf man's sign language in the truck next to ... Read More

As Michael Moore's "Sicko" documentary has shown, bilateral cochlear implants are gaining in popularity. If you have one implant, is one implant enough for you or do you want (or ... Read More

Just read this article about a deaf man in Wisconsin planning to open his own bank. The article says he is trying to become the first deaf bank president. Would ... Read More

On July 14, 2007 America's Most Wanted aired an episode that featured the death of a little girl who was killed in a hit and run just outside of Gallaudet ... Read More

Time magazine just posted its 50 Best Websites 2007, and one of them is a site called DonorsChoose.org. This site lets teachers in need of funding for specific projects post ... Read More

Today's (Thursday, July 12, 2007) New York Times has yet another of the "baby boomers are getting old and losing hearing" articles. What's different about this one ("The Day ... Read More

An About.com visitor wrote: "We are the parents of a developmentally delayed, hard-of-hearing boy. We are about to introduce a fost/adopt child into the family who is 00 months ... Read More

This article in today's Detroit News (Monday, July 9, 2007), "Deaf Woman's Confession Debated," reports that a deaf woman's attorney is claiming she did not understand her Miranda rights because ... Read More

The perfect thing to tell around a deaf summer camp fire: a sign language ghost story. Here is one from the About.com guide to Paranormal Phenomena. A handful of deaf ... Read More

Before deaf people move, they often check out the local deaf community. It can be difficult to do that from far away, so deaf people post questions on the forum ... Read More

I am currently working on a project for About.com, and in the process I have come across several deaf-related articles on other About.com guidesites that are too good not to ... Read More

This little item caught my attention: a family in India with nine deaf children. Nine in one family. I have never heard of a deaf family with that many in ... Read More

Just updated, the article on web video captioning. It is positively amazing, the fantastic growth in options for captioning web video. People now have a choice between using software themselves ... Read More