The comment left by "Mike" last night on the recent blog post, "Proof of Damage by Inadequate Interpreters" was thought-provoking and I have reprinted his comment here: Based on RID info ... Read More

Most people already know this, but I am posting this for the benefit of those who don't know yet - Emma Agnew's body has been found, and an arrest has ... Read More

Who knows what reading level 14 year old Eddie Mead might have today if he had had decent interpreters? According to this article in the Reno Gazette-Journal (November 25, 2007): There ... Read More

India is definitely getting its own deaf college. Dnaindia.com reports that the Ishara Foundation is teaming up with the UK's University of Central Lancashire to launch the new college in ... Read More

One thing about About.com is that this site has a huge international readership. Therefore, from time to time I will use this site to try to help in certain situations, ... Read More

If you have struggled to get an interpreter at a doctor, dentist, or hospital, this article provides all the legal background, caveats, and resources. One thing I learned doing the ... Read More

Deaf college student Sheena McFeely wrote an opinion piece in the CSUN Daily Sundial about her experience being denied a position in her high school's student body as a spirit ... Read More

With many of us driving today to visit family and friends for the holiday, it seemed appropriate to put the spotlight on a blog post by The Deaf Sherlock: Caught ... Read More

A profile of the deaf man that made it possible for deaf people to communicate with each other (and hearing people) in the days before we had instant messaging and ... Read More

The New York Daily News (November 19, 2007) reports that a public secondary school in New York City, the American Sign Language and English Dual Language secondary school (formerly PS ... Read More

As we get ready to feast on the turkey, cranberry sauce, and other goodies, it is time to reflect on what we as deaf, hard of hearing, and people with ... Read More

An About.com visitor wrote: My grandmother is 76 and hard of hearing. She wears hearing aids and cannot hear a thing without them. However, she has been complaining about ... Read More

Swamimarti posted on the forum about a hard of hearing mother who is battling vertigo (dizziness). Her doctor insists that he can't drain the water with tubes or she will ... Read More

According to today's Washington Post (November 16, 2007), Gallaudet University is now off of probationary status. Kudos to Dr. Robert Davila, Gallaudet University president. Best of all, the dropping of ... Read More

Time flies. Already, the Unity for Gallaudet protest is part of deaf history. So, it was time to do a profile of Unity for Gallaudet for the deaf history section ... Read More

I don't know how I missed this in today's Washington Post paper edition - but a book has just been published about the life of Junius Wilson, a deaf African ... Read More

This seems to be a trend; oral deaf students insisting on Communication Access Realtime Translation ( CART) services in public school. Here is the latest article on such a battle, ... Read More

A few weeks ago at the Gallaudet University homecoming football game, I gave in to temptation and bought the Virginia Association of the Deaf's (VAD) Top Ten Reasons to Learn ... Read More

Deafmum04 asks on the forum whether it makes sense to have children of deaf adults in the same classes with deaf students, at both the primary and secondary level. What ... Read More

The Associated Press has an article, "New Devices Open Communications for Deaf," that mentions both the Interpretype and the UbiDuo. Both are devices that enable hearing and deaf people to ... Read More

How many times have you heard about a neat play being performed at your local high school, or local college and wished you could go? Unfortunately, the local high school ... Read More

Tonight I saw one of the most desperate messages ever on the forum. A 51 year old hard of hearing woman who says that despite her having a Bachelor's degree ... Read More

Jsavage123 writes on the forum about how she was suddenly hit with pain in the ear. After seeing the doctor, she was diagnosed with tinnitus and treated. But the pain ... Read More

Drew's mom writes in the Turn On My Ears blog about the battle they had to get insurance coverage for therapy sessions for their recently implanted son. Have you had ... Read More

Actually, the term "cochlear aids" does not exist yet. I invented it to categorize hybrid hearing aids-cochlear implants. The Deafness Research Foundation's Hearing Health magazine has an article online, "Hearing ... Read More

Tonight I got an e-mail question from an About.com visitor: "I work at a child care center where there is a hearing child of deaf parents. Is it typical for ... Read More

This week's big deaf news story? Someone's death. Not a human. A chimpanzee. One who used sign language - Washoe. Many media sources carried the report of her death. The ... Read More