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Woman says she was refused service at fast food restaurant... Deaf News Today Rachel Hollis claims workers at a Burger King drive-thru in Oklahoma City refused to serve her because she is deaf. She explained what happened to KFOR-TV in a video report (or read the story here). Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Fri, Aug 23 2019 Deaf Coaches Teach Gymnastics Deaf News Today The head coaches at a gym in Utah are both deaf. KSL-TV has a video report about Champion Sports Center below or read the story here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Thu, Aug 22 2019 Burning Man sued over terps Deaf News Today Two deaf men are suing the California desert celebration known as Burning Man after the organizers refused to provide sign language interpreters. Read more from Bloomberg news here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Thu, Aug 22 2019 Cochlear implants for one-sided hearing loss Deaf News Today A research team looked at whether cochlear implants could help people with hearing loss in one ear. WRAL-TV has a video report. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Wed, Aug 21 2019 First Deaf Tennis Pro on Tour wins Match Deaf News Today The ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) has its first deaf player on the tour. South Korea's Duckhee Lee, who has been deaf since birth, won his first match yesterday in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He's only 21 years old and beat Switzerland's Henri Laaksonen 7-6 (4), 6-1 in the first round of the Winston-Salem Open. Next up: Hubert Hurkacz of Poland who is ... Tue, Aug 20 2019 Texas Senior Making his Mark on the Football field Deaf News Today Billy Haynes is not only a hard-of-hearing senior at a Texas high school, he's an important part of the school's football team. Haynes plays for Robert E. Lee High School in Baytown, Texas and has been hard of hearing since he was born. KTRK-TV has a video report (or read the story here). Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Thu, Aug 15 2019 Alabama man charged with kidnapping deaf child Deaf News Today An Alabama man is behind bars and facing kidnapping charges according to the Gadsden Times. Darrell Wade Watkins is accused of taking a deaf 4-year-old girl out of his family's year. Read about it here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Mon, Aug 12 2019 The deaf YouTuber campaigning over poor Captions Deaf News Today Rikki Poynter's #NoMoreCRAPtions campaign to get YouTubers to ditch the site's automatic captions "highlights how impressive advances in assistive technologies such as automatic captioning can obscure these technologies’ imperfections. The campaign is Poynter’s way of pushing back against any misguided notion that deaf people live in a technological future that ha... Sun, Aug 11 2019 Deaf customer discriminated against while trying to order... Deaf News Today In a recent episode of ABC's What Would You Do? a deaf actor was discriminated against while trying to order food in a restaurant. Nyle Dimarco, winner of Dancing With the Stars and America’s Next Top Model winner watched what happened behind-the-scenes. He said it resembled his own real-life experiences living as a deaf man and was overwhelmed by the passionate re... Sun, Aug 11 2019 Myths about making your website accessible Deaf News Today More than 2,250 federal lawsuits were filed against websites for ADA compliance issues in 2018, according to Amihai Miron, who heads User1st, a website accessibility firm. That's triple the number the year before. He says there are six myths related to the ADA issue including the idea that "No one’s complained, so there’s no problem" and "There’s no clear lega... Fri, Aug 09 2019 Theater loses appeal: Must provide terps Deaf News Today The Fox Theatre in St. Louis must provide interpreters for the deaf when asked —- not just once for the run of a show. That's the ruling of an appeals court panel. The 8th U.S. Court of Appeals voted two to one to uphold a lower court ruling. Tina Childress sued the theater when it refused to provide her captioning for a performance of Rent. She was told there was o... Thu, Aug 08 2019 Researchers say they're a step closer to new ways of... Deaf News Today Researchers say they have figured out which proteins control the formation of hair cells—a finding that could lead to new ways of restoring hearing by triggering hair cells to grow. The findings come out of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine based on the use of genetic tools. Read the details of the study here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Tue, Aug 06 2019 The Deaf Teen taking Esports by Storm Deaf News Today image from CNN video Soleil Wheeler was born deaf and now at 13 years old, she's an international star in the world of esports. Known as Ewok, she has 200,000 followers on Amazon's Twitch streaming service and is the first female to join Faze Clan, a famous esports organization that helps promote its 80-or-so players and train them for competitions. Wheeler attends t... Sat, Aug 03 2019 happy Birthday, Bob Hiltermann! Deaf News Today from BobHiltermann.com Deaf since the age of 4, Bob Hiltermann was born on this day (August 1, 1952) in Germany, the tenth of eleven children born. A bout with meningitis left him deaf but he wasn't diagnosed until the age of ten. Hiltermann learned ASL while attending Gallaudet University in Washington, DC and later formed MuSign (a Signing/Mime company). He acted w... Thu, Aug 01 2019 Delta will be first to offer sign language bar for uniforms Deaf News Today Delta Air Lines is now allowing in-flight crew members' to include a language bar option on their uniforms to indicate whether they know a signed language. The option is already available for spoken languages like Spanish and Russian. Delta will be the first U.S. airline to do this. Delta CEO Ed Bastian shared the news with a video on his LinkedIn page. Read More at ... Wed, Jul 31 2019 BBC Tests New Audio Mix Deaf News Today The BBC is testing new technology that allows hard-of-hearing viewers to adjust audio levels in new ways. They can reduce background noise and make the dialogue crisper. Find out more about the technology on the BBC’s Taster website here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Wed, Jul 31 2019 A "tireless champion and advocate for the Deaf... Deaf News Today Harlan LanePHOTO: Mary Knox Merrill/Northeastern University Harlan Lane died July 13 at the age of 82 from Parkinson’s disease. A psychologist and linguist, Lane helped to found the ASL program at Northeastern University. But he will mostly be remembered as a "tireless champion and advocate for the Deaf community." Among the books he authored was The People of the ... Mon, Jul 29 2019 How Rochester Became a Hub for the Deaf Deaf News Today Rochester is home to one of the largest deaf and hard-of-hearing populations in the U.S. Read about how that came about in an article from the Daily Beast here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Sun, Jul 28 2019 Sainsbury’s turns store into signing supermarket Deaf News Today Sainsbury’s, one of the UK's largest supermarkets, turned one of its stores into a signing supermarket. It was renamed “Signsbury’s” for the three-day project. Read more about it here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Thu, Jul 25 2019 On this date: The ADA was signed into law Deaf News Today It was on this day (July 25, 1990) that President George H.W. Bush signed the American Disablity Act into law. Senator Tom Harkin says the ADA law was inspired by his deaf brother. The Iowa Democrat says watching his brother, Frank, struggle against social barriers motivated him to push the ADA bill through the U.S. Congress. The law prohibits private employers, state... Thu, Jul 25 2019 Deaf man: Theater prevented him from seeing ‘Lion King’ Deaf News Today A Tampa Bay, Florida deaf man says he tried to see The Lion King at a local movie theater but they couldn't find captioning equipment for him that worked. WFLA-TV has a video report. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Wed, Jul 24 2019 Looking Back.. 16 years ago Deaf News Today On this date (July 23) in 2003, a revival of Big River opened on Broadway with a cast of hearing and deaf actors. Roger Miller's 1985 musical about Huck Finn was the first Broadway show to do so since the 1980's Children of a Lesser God. The show was a co-production of the Roundabout Theater Company and West Hollywood's Deaf West Theater. Read More at DeafNewsToday.co... Tue, Jul 23 2019 Inventing sign language for deaf scientists Deaf News Today The BBC has a video report on Liam Mcmulkin, a deaf student who was frustrated by the lack of sign language for scientific terms—so he invented his own. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Sun, Jul 21 2019 Keyless ignition leads to death of deaf woman Deaf News Today Connie Dotson died after accidentally leaving her car running in the garage while she slept inside her home. This is not the first time this has happened to someone who is deaf with keyless ignition systems. WKYT-TV has a video report from Kentucky (or you can read the story here). Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Thu, Jul 18 2019 Plan to prevent deafness in gene-edited babies Deaf News Today image by XhenetaM A Canadian bioethicist says a plan to edit human embryos to prevent deafness is "offensive." Françoise Baylis is criticizing the efforts of a Russian molecular biologist who told the New Scientist he "has recruited five couples with genetic deafness who wish to conceive a child who can hear." Denis Rebrikov says he will edit the GJB2 gene to elimi... Thu, Jul 11 2019 Deaf Printers at the WaPo Deaf News Today Many of the Washington Post's printers have been deaf and recently more than a dozen of them got together at Gallaudet University. The Post quotes history professor Brian Greenwald as telling the group, "If I’ve done my math correctly, you represent more than 350 years of experience." Read the full story here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Wed, Jul 10 2019 On this Date: Sentenced to Life in Prison Deaf News Today It was on this date (July 10) in 2002 that a District of Columbia judge sentenced Joseph Mesa, Jr. to six life terms without the possibility of parole for the murders of two Gallaudet classmates. The 22-year-old from Guam was convicted of first beating Eric Plunkett to death in September of 2000 and then stabbing Benjamin Varner to death in February of 2001. Both atta... Wed, Jul 10 2019 DC is getting a new deaf-owned Pizzeria Deaf News Today A San Francisco pizzeria owned by a deaf couple is expanding to Washington, D.C. Just like Mozzeria west and the second Mozzeria in Austin, the new restaurant will be staffed by deaf employees and located just down the street from Gallaudet University. The new Mozzeria will open next spring. Read more about Russ and Melody Stein's new venture here or watch the announc... Tue, Jul 09 2019 How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception & Meaning Deaf News Today Neuroscientists say gesture guides our perception of the world and how we assign meaning to what happens around us. Read more in Quanta magazine here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Mon, Jul 08 2019 Life and Deaf Deaf News Today image from MarleeMatlin.net Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin has developed a new comedy series that may be picked up by Disney. It's called Life and Deaf and is based on the life of Matlin's long-time interpreter, Jack Jason. The show is set in the 1970s and tells the story of a kid growing up with deaf parents. Read more about it at Deadline Hollywood. Read More at DeafNe... Thu, Jul 04 2019 Deaf Umpire Calls ‘Em Like He Sees ‘Em Deaf News Today Jon Breuer went from working on the New York Stock Exchange to a career as a deaf high school umpire in New Jersey. CBS New York has a video report (you can read the story here). Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Wed, Jul 03 2019 Getting to Know: Cochlear Limited Deaf News Today You could have bought stock in Cochlear Limited at the turn of the century for about $10. A few days ago the stock was worth more than $140 a share. Cochlear Limited is the biggest of the three companies that dominate the cochlear implant market with about two-thirds of the market. More than a quarter of a million people have a Cochlear implant. Based in Australia, ... Tue, Jul 02 2019 A Florida First Deaf News Today Bethany Baker is the "first deaf person admitted to the University of North Florida’s post-baccalaureate nursing program." Get to know her in an article from FristCoastNews here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Mon, Jul 01 2019 On this day in history: 26 year ago Deaf News Today It was 26 years ago today (July 1, 1993) that the FCC requires all U.S. analog television receivers with screens 13 inches or larger to include built-in decoder circuitry that could display closed captioning. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Mon, Jul 01 2019 This day in history: 115 years ago Deaf News Today Helen Keller graduated with honors from Radcliffe College on June 28, 1904, 114 years ago today, becoming the first deaf and blind person to graduate from college with a B.A. Radcliffe was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a part of Harvard University. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Fri, Jun 28 2019 On this date in 1889 Deaf News Today The statue of Thomas Gallaudet that greets visitors to the university in the nation's capital that bears his name was unveiled on June 26, 1889. The work of sculptor Daniel Chester French, the bronze statue shows Gallaudet teaching a little girl, Alice Cogswell. She holds a book to her heart, with the alphabet running across the page. They are practicing the letter ... Wed, Jun 26 2019 Happy Birthday, Signmark Deaf News Today Deaf Finnish rap artist Signmark (Marko Vuoriheimo) was born on this day (June 26) in Helsinki, Finland in 1978. The child of deaf parents, Signmark stumbled into Hip Hop music while translating songs into sign. He felt a connection between the rappers hand gestures and sign language. He now works with other artists who sing as he signs, becoming the first deaf rapper... Wed, Jun 26 2019 Getting to Know: The Father of the Internet Deaf News Today Vinton Cerf It was on this date (June 23) 1943 that Vinton Cerf was born in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. In 2004, the pair were given the ACM Alan M. Turing award, which is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Compute... Sun, Jun 23 2019 Deaf Republic Deaf News Today Hard-of-hearing poet Ilya Kaminsky has written a new book called Deaf Republic. Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Union and his new book, which is really a collection of poems, imagines deafness as a collective form of resistance against a military regime. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Fri, Jun 21 2019 Baseball ASL Culture Night in Oregon Deaf News Today A minor league baseball team in Oregon is holding the team's first-ever ASL Culture Night this evening. The Medford Rogues home game "will feature ASL translation for all of the PA announcements, as well as fun facts about deaf culture. Half of the proceeds raised through the game’s ticket raffle will be donated to Crater High School’s Deaf Academic Bowl team." He... Wed, Jun 19 2019 On this Day: First Deaf Computer PhD Deaf News Today image from Gallaudet.edu It was on this date, June 15, 2008, that Karen Alkoby became the first deaf woman in the U.S. to earn a PhD in computer science. She graduated from DePaul University in Chicago, helping to pioneer a computer-animated dictionary. Alkoby’s dissertation involved determining how the human brain interprets shapes like those made by hands in ASL.... Sat, Jun 15 2019 Deaf-owned Business Thriving Deaf News Today A deaf-owned Austin-based virtual mailbox service just scanned their millionth piece of mail this month after five years in business. KXAN-TV has a video report (or read the story here). Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Fri, Jun 14 2019 Deaf woman concerned over note from Portland drive-thru Deaf News Today A deaf Dunkin' Donuts customer in Maine says she was told not to use the drive-thru, even though she had done so many times. Read the story from WMTW-TV here. image from WMTW-TV video Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Tue, Jun 11 2019 Getting to know: Canada's first deaf Priest Deaf News Today Canada's first deaf Roman Catholic priest was ordained in 2012. Raised a Baptist in Michigan, Matthew Hysell lost his hearing after a bout with meningitis as a toddler. He made the decision to become a priest as a teenager after reading about the priesthood in school. He graduated from City University in New York, then earned a master's in theology from a California p... Fri, Jun 07 2019 a Video of Life in a 1950s Deaf School Deaf News Today Here is video filmed in 1954 at the UK's Royal School for Deaf Children in Margate. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Wed, Jun 05 2019 32 years ago: Implant history Deaf News Today image from Cochlear.com On June 4, 1987 Holly McDonell (now Holly Taylor) of Sydney became the first child to receive a commercial multi-channel cochlear implant system (Nucleus made by Cochlear, LTD). The four-year-old became profoundly deaf from bacterial meningitis. Holly still has her original implant and had several sounds processor upgrades. The Daily Telegra... Tue, Jun 04 2019 Tips on How to Speak to Deaf People Deaf News Today * Make sure you have eye contact with the person before speaking* If there is an interpreter, speak to and look at the deaf person not the interpreter* Face the person to whom you are speaking (that helps with lip-reading)* Stand in good lighting and avoid standing so that light is on the face of the deaf person* Avoid background noise whenever possible* Move your mou... Mon, Jun 03 2019 More than 100 years ago Deaf News Today Here is something from the June 1907 issue of Scientific American magazine, more than 100 years ago: The loss of the sense of hearing should not necessarily mean deprivation of the power of speech also. Is it only within recent years that we have come to realize this fact, and in up-to-date institutions the old –fashioned finger alphabet is now unknown. Every child ... Sun, Jun 02 2019 On this day: the 1st Deaf NFL Player was Born Deaf News Today Bonnie Sloan On this date (June 1) in 1948, Bonnie Sloan was born in Tennessee. At the age of 25, Bonnie would become the first deaf player in the NFL when he ran onto the field for the St. Louis Cardinals against the Philadelphia Eagles in 1973. His career only lasted one season, thanks to knee injuries, but he had made his mark. The 6-foot-5, 260-pounder came ou... Sat, Jun 01 2019 On this Date 50 Years ago
Deaf News Today Helen Keller died in Westport, Connecticut on June 1, 1968, 51years ago today. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Sat, Jun 01 2019 |
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