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Deaf inmates denied equal access: Lawsuit Deaf News Today The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against Georgia. The complaint accuses the state failing to provide deaf and hard-of-hearing inmates access to interpreters and other tools to communicate effectively in violation of ADA law. As a result, “deaf and hard of hearing people are incarcerated more frequently, suffer harsher prison conditions, remain in prison longer, and retu... Thu, Jun 21 2018 · 21 hours ago On this Day: The First 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 US 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. T... Fri, Jun 15 2018 NYPD issuing visor cards to deaf drivers Deaf News Today New York police are mailing out visor cards to 11,000 deaf or hard of hearing drivers. The goal is better communication with law enforcement. As the image on the left shows, one side of the card indicates how a driver prefers to communicate and the other side shows symbols that an officer can point to in order to indicate what caused a traffic stop. The card is intend... Thu, Jun 14 2018 Deaf Jazz Singer Hits All the Right Notes Deaf News Today "Despite not being able to hear for nearly a decade, a jazz musician still commands the stage," reports NBC News. Below is a link to a video about Mandy Harvey. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Mon, Jun 11 2018 Life in 1950s Deaf School: Part 2 Deaf News Today Here is a second video filmed in 1954 at the UK's Royal School for Deaf Children for a documentary. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Fri, Jun 08 2018 Study: Smoking exposure increases risk of deafness twofold Deaf News Today A Japanese study finds children are more than twice as likely to be born deaf if their mother smoked Even exposure to second-hand smoke increased the likelihood of hearing issues. Read more details in the Daily Mail here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Thu, Jun 07 2018 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 Thu, Jun 07 2018 Suit: Denver Cops Failed to Provide Terp Deaf News Today Two deaf Colorado women are suing Denver law enforcement for failing to provide them with qualified sign language interpreters. According to the Denver Post, "The suit claims the agencies ignored repeated requests for qualified sign language interpreters, failed to follow their own policies and broke state and federal anti-discrimination laws in the process." Read the... Tue, Jun 05 2018 31 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 commerical multi-channel cochlear implant system (Nucleus made by Cochlear, LTD). The four year old had became profoundly deaf from bacterial meningitis. Holly still has her original implant and had several sounds processor upgrades. The Daily Tel... Mon, Jun 04 2018 Report: Integrating deaf in the workplace is easier than... Deaf News Today Employers sometimes "have trouble imagining how a deaf person would function on the job," the CBC reports. The network spoke with the head of the Canadian Association of the Deaf to find out what really happens when a business hires a deaf worker. Here is a link to the audio. Unfortunately, the website doesn't offer a text version of the interview. Read More at DeafN... Sun, Jun 03 2018 Deaf couple: We were mistreated at KFC Deaf News Today A deaf couple say employees at a KFC near Jackson, Mississippi laughed at them for not being able to communicate their food order verbally. According to WLBT-TV,"Bobbie and Mike Cole wanted a chicken dinner at KFC in Byram Wednesday, but what they said they got was disrespect and humiliation from employees." Here's a video report. You can read a text version here. FO... Sun, Jun 03 2018 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... Sun, Jun 03 2018 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 ... Sat, Jun 02 2018 Deaf Workers Sue Walmart Deaf News Today Two deaf employees are suing Walmart for what they claim is discrimination. Troy Miles and Tonya Bland needed interpreters at meetings held at the Washington, DC store where they worked. But they say Walmart managers ignored their requests. Walmart has denied those allegations. Read the suit here and there is more information on the case from the National Law Journal ... Sat, Jun 02 2018 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... Fri, Jun 01 2018 On this Date 50 Years ago Deaf News Today Helen Keller died in Westport, Connecticut June 1, 1968, 50years ago today. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Fri, Jun 01 2018 Report: Parents are leading a "revolt" at a Deaf... Deaf News Today Some parents at L.A.’s only school for the deaf think the school is in crisis and say they are considering withdrawing their children. The Los Angeles Times reports: Anger over the school's administration has sparked a revolt led by parents, alumni and advocacy groups who believe the school is in crisis. They point to high turnover, cuts to extracurricular program... Wed, May 30 2018 Terp in China Becomes Social Media Star Deaf News Today A CODA from southwest China has become a "social media star" after posting a video on WeChat. The sign language lawyer who became wanted to tell people about the danger of Ponzi schemes. The BBC reports: "Despite a significant expansion in access to education, some deaf Chinese are still targeted by financial scam organisers. Stories of deaf people who lost fortunes i... Wed, May 30 2018 Opinion: Hollywood keeps 'cripping up' Deaf News Today Sara Novic, a Deaf writer and assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton University, says, "Hollywood has a representation problem" where it is "casting abled actors in the role of disabled characters, a phenomenon the disabled community calls 'cripping up.' When disabled people do raise the issue, they are quickly silenced, accused of overreacting. Despite t... Sun, May 27 2018 Linguistics Meet to Discuss Deaf Communities Deaf News Today Linguistics met Thursday at UCLA to discuss the differences between the hearing and deaf communities, as well as how deaf communities vary between countries. The school's student newspaper quotes lecturer Benjamin Lewis as saying,"Oftentimes we meet people who take pity on us. So I want to plant a new seed that being deaf is great. It’s nothing to feel sad about.”... Fri, May 25 2018 What Makes a Website "Accessible"? Deaf News Today U.S. courts have issued conflicting rulings about ADA law and the internet. "As a result, businesses, litigants and the courts have had no governmental rules or guidance to look to for what must be done to a website to make it compliant with the ADA," Charles Marion writes on Law.com. He says one case was dismissed for the lack of government rules on the matter. Read ... Thu, May 24 2018 "Sign Language Isn’t Just for Babies" Deaf News Today Rachel Kolb is glad that hearing parents are teaching their babies some sign language but the doctoral student, who is also deaf, says, "They are missing an opportunity to take advantage of the contributions that deaf people — the primary users (and originators) of signed languages — can offer to the world." Read more in this New York Times opinion piece here. ... Wed, May 23 2018 Another video of the Airport Confrontation Deaf News Today Here is another video showing the confrontation that started when a passenger alledgedly hit a service dog during a flight to Orlando. The man says he didn't punch the dog but swatted at it. There an ABC News report here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Tue, May 22 2018 New App for Deaf Parents Deaf News Today UCLA researchers say they've come up with an app that helps deaf parents know when and why their baby is crying. It's called Chatterbaby and "uses artificial intelligence to help determine if baby is hungry, fussy or in pain." Watch the video below for more or read the information here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Tue, May 22 2018 New Video of Airport Confrontation Over Service Dog Deaf News Today A video shows a confrontation between a deaf pregnant woman and a man who she accused of punching her service dog. It happened as their Frontier flight was taxiing to a gate at Orlando International Airport. WFTV-TV has a video report. The captions don't seem to be working but you can read it here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Sun, May 20 2018 More on the man accused of punching a deaf pregnant woman Deaf News Today Hazel Ramirez says a man punched her and her service dog during a trip from Colorado Springs to Orlando Thursday. WKMG-TV has a video report. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Sat, May 19 2018 Before video chat Deaf News Today "Talking to my parents on the phone in the days before Skype and FaceTime was a strange experience," Lauren Fitzpatrick writes. She says that while her relay service "seemed like cutting-edge technology in 2004, it was always awkward to end a conversation by saying 'I love you' to a stranger." Read the full story in the Boston Globe here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.c... Fri, May 18 2018 Man hits pregnant deaf woman and her service dog Deaf News Today A man on a Frontier Airlines flight from Colorado Springs to Orlando hit a deaf woman's service dog and then the woman who was pregnant. She was traveling with her boyfriend, who is also deaf. WESH-TV has more including a short video of part of the altercation here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Fri, May 18 2018 Everyone Can Code Deaf News Today from Apple.comStudents from the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired take part in a Swift Playgrounds session. Apple says it will bring its "Everyone Can Code" curricula for the Swift programming language to schools serving the deaf and blind. Here is a list of some of the schools involved: • California School for the Deaf (Fremont, Calif.) • Florida ... Thu, May 17 2018 Nyle DiMarco Calls Out Marvel Deaf News Today Nyle DiMarco has tweeted about his displeasure over Marval's decision to portray one of its superheros as hearing when he was originally deaf. The model and actor told Mic: Hawkeye in the Avengers — he's boring. I'm sorry. I'm a big fan of his work, but let's have a deaf actor in there instead... I think it would have made a better movie and better TV if they'd ac... Thu, May 17 2018 Deaf Candidates are Stepping Up to Run for Polical Offices Deaf News Today Portland has its first deaf city council candidate. Philip Wolfe is "part of a new wave of people who are deaf or hard of hearing and are fighting for a seat at the table in politics." Wolfe tells Oregon Public Radio: I’m hoping to shift minds, and shift paradigms, [so] that deaf people can run and they can be involved, and as people are curious as to what that lo... Wed, May 16 2018 Inside the life of a deaf firefighter Deaf News Today Eric Nusbaum is a deaf firefighter with Elsmere Fire Department near Albany, New York. WTEN-TV has a video report about Nusbaum below. You can read the story here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Tue, May 15 2018 A "legend in show business" Deaf News Today CNN sat down with deaf comedian CJ Jones. The News Network calls him a "legend in show business." Watch the interview here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Tue, May 15 2018 Deaf actress dies on this date Deaf News Today from CBS Photo Archive One of the first deaf actresses to have a major role on a TV series died on this day one year ago (May 13, 2015) in Fremont, California. Audree Norton was 88 years old.A founding member of The National Theatre of the Deaf, Norton appeared on the CBS show Mannix in 1968 and later on The Streets of San Francisco and Family Affair. When she was cu... Sun, May 13 2018 Service Dog Laws Deaf News Today Nearly two dozen states now have laws against claiming a dog is a service animal when it is not. The latest state to pass such a law is Minnesota, where the governor signed a bill into law Thursday. The goal is to prevent "untrained animals into stores, restaurants, libraries and other public places where their behavior can be bothersome," The Washington Post reports.... Sat, May 12 2018 New Zealanders''sign name' for Trump Deaf News Today Deaf people around the world have given Donald Trump his own sign name. In New Zealand it's made by "placing a hand over the head and letting the fingers wave in the breeze, mimicking his at times erratic haircut." See a video here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Wed, May 09 2018 Deaf Ohio man sues county for lack of terp Deaf News Today A Springfield, Ohio deaf man is suing Clark County because Sheriff’s deputies did not provide him with a sign language interpreter when he was arrested—or later when he was booked into jail. His attorney tells the Dayton Daily News: It’s all too common. Whether it’s in hospitals, jails, schools, so many entities don’t know what is required under the ADA an... Sat, May 05 2018 On this date in history..Frederick Barnard dies Deaf News Today Frederick Barnard It was on this date in 1889 that Frederick Barnard died at the age of 80 (May 5). His full name was Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard. The deaf American educator was quite the renaissance man. Besides teaching college students, he was a scientist, writer and mathematician. Barnard served as president of the University of Mississippi, then took the s... Sat, May 05 2018 The decades-long battle over deaf communication in Nicaragua Deaf News Today The world’s only living natural experiment in the creation of language has happened among the deaf in Nicaragua when oralism was replaced by what is now known as Nicaraguan Sign Language—and at the same time ASL was rejected. As Dan Rosenheck discovered, it has fundamentally changed how linguists think about one of civilisation’s greatest mysteries. Read more in... Fri, May 04 2018 Ice Cream & ASL Deaf News Today A new ice cream shop in Indiana is training everyone on staff to use American Sign Language. RTV6 explains why in a video report. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Fri, May 04 2018 Driver Pretends to be Deaf Deaf News Today A Jacksonville, Florida man pretended to be deaf when he was stopped for speeding, according to police. WOKV reports the man is facing charges of "knowingly driving with a license that's either suspended or revoked and with giving a false ID to law enforcement." Read more details here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Thu, May 03 2018 ASL program dropped with no warning Deaf News Today A Tampa, Florida County has cut its American Sign Language program with students only days from taking final exams. School administrators tossed the teacher out of the building in the middle of class. They didn't even let her say goodbye to her students. WFTS-TV has a video report. No captions but you can read the story here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Thu, May 03 2018 Getting to know the Gally Baseball Coach Deaf News Today image of Curtis Pride from MLB.com Former major league outfielder Curtis Pride has been the head coach of Gallaudet University's baseball team for a decade. He tells the Washington Times, "“The biggest challenge is recruiting. I probably have the most difficult job of college coaches for recruiting. I recruit deaf or hard-of-hearing players. There are not that many... Wed, May 02 2018 Identification Cards in Oregon Deaf News Today The Oregon Association for the Deaf is partnering with other advocacy groups to give out visor and wallet cards, which will "serve as a tool to assist with communications between individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and law enforcement officers." Read more from KTVZ-TV here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Wed, May 02 2018 College graduates its first deaf commercial truck driver Deaf News Today A Washington State Community College has graduated its first deaf commercial truck driver. Justin Brooks "became the first deaf student to graduate from Spokane Community College’s commercial driving program, and he departed on Friday to Kansas City, Missouri, where he has secured a job with a major trucking company," The Spokesman-Review reports. One of the driver ... Sun, Apr 29 2018 Gally Alums Launch reFort Deaf News Today Some graduates of Gallaudet University have launched a company called reFort that "refurbishes departing students’ unwanted appliances and electronics over the summer and sells them to returning students by the fall," the Washington Business Journal reports. "There are a lot of customers who really don’t understand that these goods are turning into things in a lan... Sat, Apr 28 2018 He Wants To See More Deaf Firefighters Like Himself Deaf News Today Austin Freidt is a firefighter in North Carolina—with cochlear implants. "He wants other people like him in other cities and counties to be able to follow their dreams of becoming a firefighter too," WFMY-TV reports. Read more about Freidt's effort here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Sat, Apr 28 2018 Utah Republican Party accused ADA violations Deaf News Today Aaron Heineman is suing the Utah Republican Party for failing to provide him a sign language interpreter as promised. He's being joined by Eliza McIntosh Stauffer, "who is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair. She says the state party didn’t accommodate her during the GOP state convention in 2016," The Salt Lake Tribune reports. Read the details here.... Sat, Apr 28 2018 Lawsuit: 'The kids don’t want you on the team' Deaf News Today image from the Framingham State Universitywebsite where Kayla now plays softball Kayla Finacchiaro is suing Newbury College, saying she was kicked off the women’s softball team because she is deaf. Finacchiaro told The Boston Globe her coach said, “You are no longer welcome here” and “The kids don’t want you on the team.” Newbury College denies she was di... Thu, Apr 26 2018 Deaf worker punched by customer because she couldn't hear...
Deaf News Today Liberty Gratz was working at a Virginia grocery store when she says she felt someone hit her on back. She couldn't hear the woman wanting help finding an item—so the woman hit her. WRIC-TV has a video report below. You can read more here. Read More at DeafNewsToday.com Thu, Apr 26 2018 |
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