Idioms seem to be especially challenging for deaf people to learn. Long ago, when I was a child, one day my mother handed me a book of idioms and told ... Read More

The deaf woman who was killed in New Zealand, Emma Agnew, may be resting more peacefully now that her killer, Liam James Reid, just got a life sentence. During the ... Read More

Like diapers, hearing aids have become disposable. I know of two companies making hearing aids that fit the disposable category. Their hearing aids can be worn for awhile, then discarded ... Read More

The book Deaf Like Me is probably the first deaf book I ever read in my life. Photo courtesy of Pricegrabber I strongly identified with the little deaf girl in this ... Read More

We certainly could use a dose of good news these days, and here is some. According to the Charleston Gazette, West Virginia University will start a sign language interpreter training ... Read More

"Bewildered Doctor" posted a thought-provoking response to the blog "Doctor: No Intepreter. Patient: I Will Sue!": I like to think I'm a liberal-minded cardiologist, but even I'm stunned to learn ... Read More

What I appreciated about this article on a school in southern Maryland embarking on a five-year plan to promote sign language, is that the school isn't waiting for deaf students ... Read More

One thing I enjoy about this time of year is the halloween-themed blog posts in the deaf blog/vlog community. For example, Mike signs a tale about a boy who liked ... Read More

Do you have a particular deaf-related topic of interest that you would like to read more about on the blog, which has been around since 2003? You can use Google ... Read More

That's what "Guest" on the forum wants to know. While this type of question may seem surprising, I am *not* surprised because I have seen even more ignorant comments on ... Read More

On Election Night, no need to park yourself in front of the television. You can sit at your computer and follow a live, captioned radio report! Both National Public Radio's ... Read More

It is hard to believe, but a college as old as Gallaudet University does not have a museum. Not yet, anyway. Today at Gallaudet University's homecoming football game, among the ... Read More

Scott on the forum, who has a cochlear implant, has started to hear noises in his head. Writes Scott, "I have been wearing cochlear implants for over 18 months. I ... Read More

Normally, I receive "I can't afford hearing aid" type emails on average, once every few months. Now just in the past week, I have already received two emails of this ... Read More

Many adults who are losing their hearing, will try to deny it. After awhile, they may come to accept it. Unfortunately for one United Kingdom woman, it was too much ... Read More

Here's a slice of my deaf life: Today at work I was in a session with a speaker. The speaker was so fast the interpreter was literally gasping for breath ... Read More

Ticklerkid has a legal question on the forum: "Does anyone know if TDD transcripts are admissible in court or where I can find this out?" Ticklerkid is asking because ... Read More

Last week, YouTube announced that it was going to take on Hulu.com, competing with Hulu as a source of full-length online television programming. While Hulu already has plenty of programming ... Read More

Q: What is the opposite of growing up deaf in a hearing family? A: Growing up hearing in a deaf family. "Jake" shared his personal story of growing up as a hearing ... Read More

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a technical college, is seeing an enrollment boom. I just received a press release from NTID stating that this year's enrollment hit a ... Read More

Jschwech on the forum has a problem. Their daughter, who is apparently hard of hearing, attends a private school. Her parents want to know how their daughter can get 504 ... Read More

The string of sex assaults at the Louisiana School for the Deaf finally got to be too much for the state superintendent of education in Louisiana. (The most recent case ... Read More

Kpsampson on the forum has a problem: neither a hearing aid is helping enough, nor a cochlear implant. In the message "hearing aid problems," kpsampson asks: "Are there others who ... Read More

It took me an hour to read through the entire Glenn's Story Book blog, but it was worth it to get the big picture. Glenn, a deaf college student at ... Read More

MSNBC.com has a long article, "Older ears hear again with cochlear implants," about the growing popularity of cochlear implants among older people. Older people who lose their hearing generally do ... Read More

Just before bedtime, I saw this: "Deaf fans get key ruling in FedEx Field case," from the Maryland Daily Record. A Federal judge has ruled in favor of deaf plaintiffs ... Read More