Can the deaf and hard of hearing community and its hearing friends win against Netflix in the fight to get them to put captions on their streamed video? Yes, we ... Read More

To see an example of insensitivity to the needs of deaf and hard of hearing people, look no further than the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings. As seen in blog ... Read More

Another slice of my deaf life: today I found out that I was going to lose an interpreter at work. This interpreter and I had developed a good working relationship, ... Read More

Is there a deaf (or hearing person in the deaf community) person that you most admire? Do you admire a deaf person living today, or someone who had a role ... Read More

You may have seen the statistic in the news: Less than 20 percent of 2009 college graduates have found jobs, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. ... Read More

AllAfrica.com has a report that the Harare-based African Rehabilitation Institute (an African Union agency) is working to develop a single sign language for all of Africa. Not only that, the ... Read More

Just in time for beach season, a review of the book Deaf Daughter, Hearing Father. In many ways, it is similar to yet the opposite of the classic Deaf ... Read More

My class at work today was discussing communication skills, and it brought back a growing up deaf memory for me. When I was a young teen, I was weak in ... Read More

Although most news articles have said Wisconsin is the first to require insurance companies to cover both hearing aids and cochlear implants for children under 18, Kentucky was actually the ... Read More

The Orange County Register reports that a man with hearing loss who lost a job offer as a firefighter, is asking for $1 million or the job offer reinstated. What ... Read More

Heidi is the mother of a little girl with a cochlear implant that she got years ago. Now the implant's warranty has expired, and at the same time, the speech ... Read More

Every deaf person, even those opposed to cochlear implants, should be cheering for Wisconsin's 2009 Senate Bill 27 that requires insurance companies to cover both hearing aids and cochlear implants ... Read More

Any protective parent will identify strongly with baby Shiloh's mother who had to deal with a very painful situation recently. At the daycare center, someone noticed the hearing aids on ... Read More

Is your cochlea or your child's cochlea, ossified after surviving meningitis? Were you able to get a cochlear implant despite the ossification? Newsletter|Twitter|Forum

After six years I have finally had to take a step I hoped to avoid having to take. The number of inappropriate comments from several people increased to the point ... Read More

RadioIowa reports that deaf kids in a rural area in Iowa are at risk for losing their school interpreters. Their interpreters can not meet newer, tougher standards for educational interpreters ... Read More

Is Fido hard of hearing now? Next year at this time, Fido may have his own hearing aid if all goes well. A researcher at the University of Cincinnatti is ... Read More

How important is it for hearing parents to learn sign language to communicate with their deaf children? This is the question being asked by Luis68 on the forum, as he ... Read More

Many of us have known the pain of being picked last for teams in gym class. How many of us have known the pain of not being picked at all? ... Read More

Newsday has a follow-up article of sorts about Heather Artinian, now an active high school athlete. Heather was the little girl in "Sound and Fury" who wanted a cochlear implant, ... Read More

Many people don't get, or don't have access to, the print edition of The New York Times (disclaimer: The New York Times owns About.com). Last week, The New York Times ... Read More

Last week at the Celebrate Communication event in Fairfax, VA I got into an interesting conversation with an audiologist. I told the audiologist that my insurance did not cover listening ... Read More

Today it was reported that there is a proposal (it is not a done deal yet) to turn the Scranton State School for the Deaf in Pennsylvania over to the ... Read More

Remember Connie Briscoe? She is the deaf former Gallaudet University employee who became a nationally known best-selling author. A new book by Briscoe is coming out in early June, Sisters ... Read More

My only experience with hearing aids in my life prior to my cochlear implant has been with Oticon hearing aids, so I have never experienced a Miracle-Ear hearing aid, which ... Read More

Today after a class at work, I gave a classmate my About.com business card. It turned out she had a young deaf teenage relative. She expressed her concerns to me ... Read More

We know that the risks of not removing impacted ear wax include pain and hearing loss. However, this visitor has the opposite problem; removing ear wax hurts him. He asked: Throughout ... Read More

Many years ago, an old friend wrote an essay that was published on the early internet, a classic I have never forgotten titled "An Oral Failure from Oklahoma." Now she ... Read More

Another new Readers Respond page has been published, this one focused on parents of deaf and hard of hearing children. This Readers Respond page asks parents to share how they ... Read More

A deaf young teenager in New York City has been arrested for using a videophone as a tool of terror to contact a younger girl and threatening to kill her. ... Read More

A new Readers Respond page has been published: Why did you become an interpreter? Interpreters can share the reasons that they chose to become interpreters, on this page. This Readers ... Read More