If you were born after 1975, you probably never heard of the first Caption Action. Caption Action was a national grassroots campaign to get closed captions on home video. And ... Read More

The 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act of 2009 has just been introduced in Congress by Representative Ed Markey (D-MA). This is the bill that if passed, would require ... Read More

Have you struggled to pay for hearing aids? The Hearing Industries Association is one of the organizations trying to get Congress to pass legislation to require insurance companies to at ... Read More

Newborn hearing screening is everywhere now -- in the United States and other advanced countries. However, there are countries where newborn hearing screening is not as available, and even in ... Read More

Both Time Warner and Comcast have announced that they are going to be making cable television content available on the Internet. Will this cable television content have captions online?? This ... Read More

Catherine is a hearing aid user in Ireland who lost her hearing aid when her purse (with the hearing aid) was stolen. Now she can not afford to get new ... Read More

The Orlando Sentinel reports that the National Deaf Academy in Mount Dora has made numerous calls to the local police for help. (The NDA is one of the few residential ... Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on one of the most important special education court cases ever. The rulemaking in a nutshell: if parents find that public schools can not ... Read More

Someone Twittered me a question: how do you handle staring and pointing when you have deaf kids? That is something I have not had to deal with, or do not ... Read More

Jimm at the Raging 8th Nerve has posted a blog post that will strike a chord with many of you: Fifth Wheel Sucks. In it, he describes how whenever his ... Read More

Oregon is joining the growing list of states requiring insurance coverage of hearing aids for children. House Bill 2589 mandates coverage of hearing aids for kids under 18, PLUS it ... Read More

Someone posted this cartoon on Facebook, and it was so funny that I requested they post it on the forum here too. In this cartoon, a woman tells a deaf ... Read More

Deaf people in Arizona who receive Medicaid, may soon not be able to have Medicaid pay for cochlear implants and Baha (bone anchored hearing aid) implants. Hi_Dan has posted a ... Read More

United Parcel Service (UPS) and deaf and hard of hearing drivers have finally settled an old lawsuit. Under the settlement (which settles a case that had been continuing since 1999!) ... Read More

Shelly on the forum needs help to come up with a creative name for the Walk4Hearing team she is on. (Walk4Hearing is a fundraising activity for Hearing Loss Association of ... Read More

We have heard the warnings about the dangers of hearing loss from overly loud iPod and cell phone use. The danger level for iPod use is 80 percent volume for ... Read More

We need to demonstrate to Netflix how much of a potential market they are missing out on.

An About.com visitor, Alex Johnson, gave me a picture of his hearing dog Snoopy. (No copyright laws were broken in the naming of this dog). Isn't that pink harness cute? Meet ... Read More

This past week these blog posts got at least one comment each: What About Mute People? Netflix Responds on Their Blog Need a Text Only Cell Phone Plan? Question on Sebotek Aid How to Handle ... Read More

Netflix has just responded to the deaf and hard of hearing community and its hearing friends about the captioning of streamed media issue.

Just reviewed, Moments of Truth: Robert R. Davila, The Story of a Deaf Leader. From the Foreword to the Afterword, this was an excellent book and I had a hard ... Read More

A mother in Virginia was able to get hearing aids for her daughter only after she lost her job. That qualified her for Medicaid. Before she lost her job, she ... Read More

The online video streaming market is about to gain a new competitor: Epix.

Phil Moos, whose name may seem familiar to you if you had subscribed to his USA-L News, has passed away. Details are in this page on DeafTimes.com. His picture can ... Read More

Consumer Reports has published in its July issue a comprehensive guide to buying hearing aids. As part of preparation for this guide, Consumer Reports followed a dozen people as they ... Read More

This morning I went to a social meeting for a local deaf/hard of hearing organization. This organization faces the same challenge that many if not most deaf/hoh organizations are facing: ... Read More

Sharon was challenged with answering the question, "Some interpreters prefer not to belong to local or national organizations" for interpreters. Why would this be, when belonging to local and national ... Read More

This week I have been taking a training course at work. It has been rather stressful, because the way it is taught is deaf-unfriendly. Speedy lecturing, flashing powerpoint slides so ... Read More

I'm always interested in anything that involves deaf role models, so when Purple contacted me today to let me know about the new Dream Bigger campaign that honors deaf role ... Read More

A new Readers Respond page has been published: Sign Language Learning Experience. On this page, readers can share their own experiences with learning sign language. I started the page off ... Read More

Today I found out the real reason why Hulu.com has closed captions, and it is NOT because Hulu.com planned to be accessible from the very start. Here is the true ... Read More