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• Sprint Relay Blogs and Vlogs - Blackberry Curve 8330 NOW available at www.sprintrelays...

  PAH! IT?S OFFICIAL BlackBerry Curve 8330 IS NOW available online at www.sprintrelaystore.com. BUY YOUR BLACKBERRY CURVE 8330 FROM SPRINT RELAY STORE  $279.99 Blackberry Curve Original Price -$100.00 mail-in rebate from Sprint -$ 79.99 mail-in rebate from Reseller  $100.00 final cost Remember, this offer is ONLY available online at www.sprintrelaystore.com.  ...

• Fookem and Bug - 8 Year old Deaf Storyteller in Video

  Written by Bug Should Deaf children be taught American Sign Language? Would you like to communicate with your child before they can talk? Do you want to increase your child?s reading and language abilities? Learning to read and write English takes years, much patience and practice for young children. But they effortlessly use their hands [...]

• Sprint Relay Blogs and Vlogs - Sprint Relay Store now offers voice plan for customers ...

  Sprint Relay Store is excited to announce new wireless voice plan offering for customers who experience hearing loss. These phones are great for Sprint WebCapTel users as well. To view the hearing aid compatible wireless phones and different voice plan, go to www.sprintrelaystore.com/voice. For more information about Sprint WebCapTel service, please visit www.sprintca...

• deafmac.org - EyeTV 3.0.2 update brings CC Export to iPhone, iPod Tou...

  Yesterday ElGato updated their fantastic EyeTV software to version 3.0.2, and one of the new features will preserve closed captions of EyeTV recordings (CC) in the QuickTime (QT) CC track that Apple released in QuickTime 7.1.6. Anything that can play QT movies can now playback recorded movies with CC?s, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, [...]

• Amy Cohen Efron - BREAKING NEWS: Gallaudet cancels HAMILL (movie) auditio...

  BREAKING NEWS! Gallaudet University decided not to host auditions with K?Dee Miller Productions, LLC for HAMILL:The Movie on May 12, 2008. Matt Hamill is known as the “The Hammer”, The Ultimate Fighter. He is Deaf American wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter. I just got off the phone this morning with the Theater [...]

• submit by: Roger Vass - USADB

  USADB Tournament Highlights. CSD-TV was there for the USADB Championship and we carried the action LIVE during the Tournament. If you missed the big game, or want to relive the magic moments of the tournament, you can see 45 minutes of the best highlights.

• All The Young Dudes - SATIRE: Don?t Cry For Me Deaf Society

  Here?s just one more for the road. You all know the musical EVITA, and the song Don?t Cry For Me Argentina. I give you, Don?t Cry For Me Deaf Society. This is really easy, you?ll think it?s not Let me try to explain how I feel That I still need your love After all that I?ve embezzled You won?t believe [...]

• Grumpy Old Deafies - BSL Recognition: Tender to Improve Access & Demand for ...

  Following the meeting with the Prime Minister in February, the Department for Children Schools and Families are planning to announce the publication of a tender for a project to improve access to and demand for BSL. The relevant DCSF page by Lord Adonis can be found here, and the direct link to the document is here [Word] (the link on their website does not work). B...

• At The Rim - Deafness awards at Houses of Parliament

  The award ceremony for ‘It?s my future: Being Deaf in 2018?, a competition run by UCL?s Deafness, Cognition and Language Centre (DCAL), was held at a ceremony at the Houses of Parliament earlier this month. The competition invited deaf people aged 15–19 to write 1,000 words on how new ideas and research into deafness might have changed their lives by 2018 or even la...

• Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 - R.I.P Sten Harris

  Sten Harris died yesterday, after a long time of illness. Sten worked at Rikshospitalet for many years, operating most of the CI-operations up until now. He was a true CI-pioneer in Norway. His illness and following death is probably one of the reasons that Rikshospitalet has problems with the capacity of performing CI-operations these days. [...]

About Deafness

• Odyssey on Deaf Children with Autism

  Tonight I came across the new Spring/Summer 2008 issue of Odyssey, published by the Clerc Center. The cover story is on autism in deaf children. There are six articles on...

• Solar-Powered Hearing Aids

  Newsweek reports that a solar-powered hearing aid has been developed. The batteries it uses are rechargeable solar batteries. I have not finished reading the article yet so I can't...

• Bangladesh Deaf High School Struggling

  The Daily Star, a Bangladesh newspaper, reports that the only deaf high school in the country, Dhaka Bodhir High School, is struggling to survive. Not only is the school in...

• Trix Bruce at NVCC

  Here is another glimpse into my deaf life: tonight we went to a show by Trix Bruce at Northern Virginia Community College. She told a series of vignettes (short stories)...

• Is the Phrase "Falls On Deaf Ears" Respectful or Disrespectful of Deafness?

  Everyone knows that journalists should avoid the term "deaf and dumb" as much as possible. What about the phrase "falls on deaf ears?" Does it convey a positive or negative...

• Farewell to InSight Cinema

  Today, InSight Cinema, the nonprofit organization that had worked to promote open captioned films and carried listings of open captioned film showings around the country, said goodbye. In a letter...

• Hard of Hearing Stepdaughter

  An About.com visitor wrote: "My stepdaughter has been in the US for the past two years. She has an 85% hearing impairment. Basically, she relies on reading lips. The...

• Have You Seen "Wrong Game?"

  Only a couple of weeks ago, we had gone to an ASL film festival. Saturday afternoon found us back at Gallaudet University, this time to see the ASL film "Wrong...

• Website with Printable Signs?

  Lettitia asks on the forum if there is any website that she can print the signs for words off of. She needs this to help her communicate with a deaf...

• Welcome, Las Vegas Charter School of the Deaf

  This fall, a new charter school for the deaf opens in Las Vegas, according to the Las Vegas Sun. It is a bilingual school, as reported: The new school for...