Deaf Village

• Summertime, and the livin? is easy?

  The funny thing about blogging is that sometimes the best days seem really boring to write about. Haven't posted much this week... and it's all been good :0) This week has been sunny, about 75-80F, and breezy. Which, from my perspective, is just abo...

• More on SayWhatClub: by Jan Christensen

  More than 36 million people in America alone have a hearing loss, with an estimated 278 million worldwide according to a World Health Organization (WHO) survey in 2005, ranging from moderate to profound. Hearing loss is the third most common health problem in America, behind only arthritis and heart disease. A small group of people [...]

• Twilight Lecture by Bencie Woll, Monday 13 July

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  The next Twilight Lecture will be given by Bencie Woll. The free event, "Language and the Deaf Brain" will take place on Monday 13th July at 5.30pm at The Ear Foundation.

  Bencie Woll is professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies in the Department of Cognitive Perceptual and Brain Sciences at University College London and also the Director of the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre ? the largest centre of its kind in the world.

  Before coming to London, she was at Bristol, where she first worked on language...

• Military Eligibity, Disability, and Social Programs

  Before I begin this post, I apologize sincerely for opening up such a can of worms. I am not sure about what kind of role SSDI plays in the life of people with disabilities outside the deaf community but I will write based on my knowledge of the issue ...

• New communications service for deaf people

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  Deaf and foreign language patients at the Royal United Hospital will be helped by a pioneering new communications service.

  The RUH, Bath, is working with Sign Health, a national charity for deaf people, to offer a service called Sign Translate to patients.

• Cheerios to the rescue!

  As I was putting Lucas to bed last night, I heard it pounding like mad against the window. The rain, that is. Perfect timing too, when Nate wasn't home, and I couldn't save our porch from the torrential downpour. It made it 6 feet horizontally, the who...

• day 4 and getting bored now.

  I must be feeling better, I'm getting bored. Not quite with it enough to do anything energetic, but bored with the house. I'm glad that we have below average temperatures, I wouldn't want to have to deal with high temps and humidity, plus I don't have to worry about watering the veggies.I feel a little giddy if I turn my head to the right plus it's stiff and sore. My right ear feels as if it has

• Deaf Teachers Losing Jobs Because of English

  Nobody likes to see deaf people lose jobs, particularly teachers. However, in Massachusetts, deaf teachers who can not pass the state's English competency test for teachers are at risk of...

• Change of Plans

  Sickness abounds in our home right now. Seems it usually hits with holiday fun! Elly has been sick since Tuesday, William since yesterday, and Wallace since last night. We chose not to drive for speech therapy today, but we did Skype (teletherapy) instead.

• Second CI for Amanda??

  Today we had an appointment with Amanda's CI surgeon to discuss the possibility for a second implant. It took us an hour to drive to LA and three hours to drive home and the bottom line is that today was a bit of a disappointment.Amanda has wanted a s...

About Deafness

• Deaf Teachers Losing Jobs Because of English

  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...

• After Nearly Dying, Autoimmune Hearing Loss

  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...

• Story of the First Caption Action

  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...

• Internet Captioning Bill Introduced on Hill

  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...

• Hearing Industries Association

  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...

• Does Your Baby Have a Hearing Loss?

  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...

• Cable Television Moves to the Internet. Any Captions?

  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...

• Purse With Hearing Aid Stolen

  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...

• Is The National Deaf Academy Under Control or Out of Control?

  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...

• Supreme Court Makes Important Special Education Ruling

  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...