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What to do with Used Hearing Aid Batteries
When hearing aid batteries wear out, they need to be disposed of - safely, and preferably, recycled.

Finding Sign Language Classes
How to find a sign language class in your area.

What to do with Used Hearing Aids
What to do with used or unwanted hearing aids. Information on recycling programs with domestic and international objectives.

Growing Up Deaf - Rude Awakening in a Deaf Childhood
A deaf childhood and discovering what it means to be deaf.

Growing Up Deaf - First Deaf Adult Role Model
First deaf adult role model.

Growing Up Deaf - When the Shoe's On the Other Foot
Meeting blind children for the first time was a revelation.

Growing Up Deaf - Teasing
Teasing, and how it makes a deaf person feel.

Growing Up Deaf - Summer Camp
Remembering a deaf summer camp experience.

Growing Up Deaf - Discovering Sign Language
How I discovered sign language.

Growing Up Deaf - Leaving High School
Why as a deaf teenager I left high school early.

Growing Up Deaf - Remembering HiYa
Deaf and hard of hearing teenagers need social organizations.

Growing Up Deaf - Television Before Closed Captions
Trying to watch television without captions.

Growing Up Deaf - The College Years
A deaf college experience at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and Gallaudet University.

Growing Up Deaf - Classroom Ghost
What it is like to not have an interpreter in class.

Kenny Walker
"A look at the career of a deaf professional football player named Kenny Walker.

Growing Up Deaf - Family Holidays
Family gatherings often meant loneliness for a deaf child.

Martha's Vineyard - Where It was Normal to be Deaf
Martha's Vineyard island was a place where it was normal to be deaf.

Profile of William Castle of NTID
William Castle was closely associated with the National Technical Institute for the Deaf since before its beginnings.

Curtis Pride
Curtis Pride, a professional and minor league baseball player, happens to be deaf.

Deanne Bray - Deaf Actress and Television Star
Deanne Bray, a deaf actress, stars in Sue Thomas, F.B.Eye, on the Pax channel.

Deaf Cinema
More and more deaf actors, writers, and directors are making films featuring deaf people and with deaf themes.

Lou Ferrigno - Hard of Hearing Actor
Lou Ferrigno, a hard of hearing actor and bodybuilder.

Spanish Sign Language
Spanish speaking countries such as Mexico have their own sign languages.

Sign Language Facts
Basic Facts on American Sign Language.

James "Deaf" Burke
A deaf british boxer, a champion who died penniless.

 
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