A slice of my deaf life: Today at work where I am on a team working on a project, I saw the others talking with someone. I work nearby, yet ... Read More

If life is challenging for deaf people with no additional issues, imagine what it is like for a deaf person with developmental disability, autism, and mental illness. One such person ... Read More

Donating blood can be a way to earn money. However, when a deaf man who had been laid off and was in need of money went to donate blood, accompanied ... Read More

Competition is growing in the field of captioned voice communications. I already knew about CapTel, which is a telephone captioning service using a phone device. I just learned about the ... Read More

Now and then something I write for About.com has more personal meaning for me. In Signs of Arthritis, there is a list of sources for the signs for words commonly ... Read More

Not that many years from now, it may be routine for people with hearing loss to head to a surgeon for a minor procedure to have a hearing aid implanted. ... Read More

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About.com has something new, called Readers Respond. What it is, is a page where you submit your answers to a question that I ask. If I like your answer, I ... Read More

I loved the show Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye when it first aired, in part because of the performance of Deanne Bray. This show had a deaf woman as THE star. Oh, ... Read More

I thought that this article was just a routine cochlear kid story, until I read further and learned that the parents had written and published a book on cochlear implants ... Read More

One of my worst ear infections happened shortly after I had swum in a hotel pool. It could have been worse, if this news item in Medical News Today is ... Read More

Ljm225 was hit with a triple whammy a couple of years ago when she was diagnosed with sudden deafness, fibromyalgia, and a balance disorder. She applied for, but was denied, ... Read More

If you are a fan of NCAA basketball March Madness, you probably already know about the deaf player that is currently in the news: Michael Lizarraga. He is said to ... Read More

After a year with the cochlear implant, I have found that I like both sound and silence. The CI has helped me greatly on the job, particularly if an interpreter ... Read More

Who isn't ready for Winter to end? Here to welcome Spring is a new mini sign language guide, Signs of Spring. I tried, but was not able to find a ... Read More

How should a deaf job seeker answer the "telephone question" that comes up in job interviews? E.g., "How will you handle the telephone?" This question causes problems for deaf job ... Read More

Just read this article on CNN.com: Wife to employers: Hire my husband, please. This lady set up a website advertising her husband as a job candidate. Creative, and it got ... Read More

I never know what an appropriate response is when a hearing person I have just met, says to me, "You speak very well." It always annoys me even though I ... Read More

Lucky_Rita on the forum claims that she taught herself how to speak, outside of traditional speech therapy. I don't quite understand what she posted, but it looks interesting and worth ... Read More

I do not know the answer. How can a deafblind person who can not see well enough to use cooking equipment, cook safely and is that even possible? I recently ... Read More

Awhile ago I went to an ASL dinner where I met a student interpreter who told me about how she was learning ASL classifiers. I asked her to explain that ... Read More

The Deaf Animals blog brings us the story of Oliver, a deaf gorilla who has had to be separated from his hearing peers. Being able to "talk" is necessary for ... Read More

Sweet. That's what I thought as I read this story about a new scholarship for deaf college students. What made it sweet, as in "revenge is sweet?" The scholarship was ... Read More

Diabetes is scary enough without knowing the signs for the words to explain it to a deaf child or adult. Here is a mini-guide to sources of signs for the ... Read More

Chrissy posted a response to a previous blog posting, MRSA in the Ear?. She writes that her husband has MRSA in his ear and it is making him so miserable ... Read More