Michael posted a comment on the blog post "Is That Baby Retarded?" The comment claims that when people wear hearing aids, they are seen as "mentally inferior." He says he ... Read More

Deaf-blind children need the special help of interveners. But interveners are not recognized as a profession in the United States, and they are expensive for families of deaf-blind children. How ... Read More

This Thursday morning I will be on Capitol Hill for the legislative event on HR 3101, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009, the bill that will ... Read More

Ilalynch is a parent of a high school senior with unilateral deafness. Her daughter is totally deaf in one ear, but the other ear hears perfectly. At the same time, ... Read More

South Dakota's School for the Deaf is being reduced to the point where it will barely exist. According to the Argus Leader, five families have filed a class-action lawsuit to ... Read More

What is ear candling and have you ever tried it to remove unwanted ear wax? No matter what you may have heard about it, it is actually dangerous! For example, ... Read More

A convicted killer's convictions were overturned because of a deaf juror. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, a deaf juror was honest during the jury picking process, about her hearing ... Read More

Belliosto on the forum is asking about something that many deaf and hard of hearing people can identify with: the frustration of interacting with hearing family members and often being ... Read More

Someone who read the blog post "Wanting to Be Deaf," wrote to me, admitting to having made herself deaf, and now she regrets it big time. She asked that I ... Read More

I learned today that the UK deaf are apparently at risk for losing their subtitling service, via the At the Rim blog. I read the linked article "Deaf hit ... Read More

Joyce on the forum is seeking a fitting diagram for a specific brand and make of hearing aid. She is frustrated because she is on her second brand of open ... Read More

I never had to worry about this when I went to day camp as a kid. A nine-year-old girl's hearing aids were stolen when she went swimming with her day ... Read More

There are so many companies that manufacture hearing aids, that I have only been able to profile a handful so far. The newest one profiled is Starkey. Starkey is a ... Read More

Picture this: You are deaf and naked, having just stepped out of the bathtub. All you are wearing is a towel. Suddenly, police appear in front of you, pointing guns ... Read More

Early in the morning of June 25, frustrated by the lack of captions on the Internet, I started the Facebook grassroots cause Caption Action 2. Coincidentally, the next day, on ... Read More

Ed Bosson has done it again. This week he called our attention to fraud committed by VRS agencies. On his blog, Bosson provided copies of publicly available documents from the ... Read More

Ticklerkid on the forum is frustrated by the inaccessibility of podcasts, and wants to know if there is any software that can convert podcast speech to text. One respondent mentioned ... Read More

I should have known. Observing hearing people with their iPods, I couldn't help comparing them to the hearing aid users of yore. Now comes the news that there is an ... Read More

In the too cute not to blog category: A deaf woman's cats (Gwinnett Daily Post, July 5, 2009) perform some of the same functions as a hearing dog. Among other ... Read More

Nobody likes to see deaf people lose jobs, particularly teachers. However, in Massachusetts, deaf teachers [update: in this case, a sign language teacher] who can not pass the state's English ... Read More

Rebecca on the forum describes how she nearly died, and was diagnosed with an autoimmune hearing loss. Her story, which she posted in hopes of helping someone else, is ... Read More