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If it had not been for baseball's first deaf superstar, major league baseball might not have umpires' hand signals today. William Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy was a good enough player than many believe he should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
By Mike White | Published 3/25/2006 | Read more »
An explaination of the video phone and how it works and is changing the lives of Deaf people.
By Amy Gayle | Published 7/11/2007 | Read more »
This award winning group of actors is like many others in many ways. They perform in well known plays, such as Beauty and the Beast, The Miracle Worker, and Snow White. The Cleveland, Ohio, Signstage Theater uses both deaf and hearing actors, however.
By Mike White | Published 9/28/2007 | Read more »
Information on Hatha Yoga courses held in Austin for the Deaf. The classes are instructed by Lila Lolling, who signs in American Sign Language.
By Znuage | Published 11/25/2006 | Read more »
A overview of the importance of the community deaf club in the role of dating in the deaf community.
By Kelly Morris | Published 1/25/2008 | Read more »
A guide for hearing people to know how to effectively communicate with a person who is deaf or hard of hearing.
By Amy Huang | Published 2/7/2008 | Read more »
Even if you're tone deaf, you CAN learn to play guitar. This article discusses the details of how to overcome this seemingly-impossible hurdle.
By Conquer Apathy | Published 12/21/2007 | Read more »
If you think that buying gifts for able-bodied people is difficult, you may think buying for the deaf and hard of hearing is even more difficult! But it isn't. You just need to know where to look.
By Paul Bright | Published 11/9/2007 | Read more »
Caught between two communities - the deaf community and the hearing community. Not fitting into either one. what do you do?
By Candace Ball | Published 9/28/2007 | Read more »
Caring for a deaf pet can be a challenging but rewarding experience.
By Darlene Zagata | Published 10/21/2007 | Read more »
Are you blind or deaf? If you aren't, would you be able to cope in this world if you were?
By Evette | Published 3/1/2008 | Read more »
Royal Caribbean hosts a historical, accessible cruise for deaf and hard of hearing passengers.
By Deaf Mom | Published 12/5/2007 | Read more »
There are many forms of non-mainstream theatrical arts that are specialized. Theater for the deaf is one of these. It uses many imaginative techniques to entertain both hearing and deaf audiences.
By Melissa Harber | Published 9/17/2008 | Read more »
Here are tips for living with a deaf dog.
By sheryl cousar | Published 1/22/2009 | Read more »
A brief description of a Miracle that Jesus performed. This one is Mark 7:33, found in the bible. The miracle is of Jesus performing a miracle on a deaf/mute man. He gives the man the ability to hear and speak.
By Janae Garcia | Published 2/6/2009 | Read more »
This is a memoir of Myron Uhlberg, a popular children's writer, and his life growing up with two deaf parents.
By JRS | Published 2/25/2009 | Read more »
Henry Kisor has written several mysteries, a children's book and his memoir, "What's That Pig Outdoors."
By Deaf Mom | Published 6/18/2007 | Read more »
This article reviews communication methods available for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children that include sound.
By Anita Grace Simpson | Published 11/21/2008 | Read more »
A lot of deaf people have contributed to society? Don't think so? Read this article.
By william yap | Published 10/28/2008 | Read more »
A debate between two organizations for those with hearing loss. Pepsi's deaf super bowl commercial created controversy, generating positive and negative responses from the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and the National Association of the Deaf.
By Trina Council | Published 4/1/2008 | Read more »
The family and educational situations of social maturation in deaf children can easily be compartmentalized into several overlapping categories...
By Jacob Mascitto | Published 7/31/2007 | Read more »
What are you going to do when you meet someone who is deaf? To know more, read this article.
By william yap | Published 10/28/2008 | Read more »
You don't have to be a speech pathologist or a specialist in hearing habilitation to help your deaf child learn language!
By Anita Grace Simpson | Published 3/9/2008 | Read more »
Should deaf parents have the right to use genetic screening to select deafness for their children?
By Steve Shives | Published 12/27/2007 | Read more »
The article talks about the challenges a deaf couple can face when planning their wedding day. Wedding vows are spoken orally, but in the case of a deaf couple how will they communicate their wedding vows to all their guests.
By Avis Yarbrough | Published 9/29/2006 | Read more »
A deaf woman writes about her feelings on what is more important to hear. Music or spoken conversations?
By Znuage | Published 10/6/2006 | Read more »
This article discusses what a deaf woman's "inner voice" is like and how a deaf person communicates while dreaming.
By Znuage | Published 10/19/2006 | Read more »
This shows how a deaf person can make a difference
By Melody Baker | Published 11/29/2006 | Read more »
Gallaudet University's Lauret Clerc National Deaf Education Center is a wonderful resource for teachers who teach deaf and hearing-impaired students.
By Celin Childs | Published 8/17/2006 | Read more »
Is it Deaf or deaf? Can a capital letter make a difference? Apparently it can, and it's a difference that those with D/deaf friends or co-workers might want to watch out for.
By Chitrani | Published 6/22/2006 | Read more »
Determining how to best educate a Deaf child is a difficult decision. This article examines the pros and cons of integrating the Deaf child with hearing peers or placing them in a school for the Deaf.
By David Bareford | Published 8/17/2005 | Read more »
Here's a peek into my world--and what it is like to be deaf.
By Deaf Mom | Published 7/9/2007 | Read more »
Did you make a new friend who is deaf or hard of hearing? Have an old friend who for some reason is losing theirs? It happens, and dealing with the communication issues can be frustrating at the very least. Here are three simple tips ...
By Chitrani | Published 4/23/2006 | Read more »
For the profoundly deaf, a device called the cochlear implant that has been around since the late 1980s may, in some cases, be the difference between hearing sounds and not hearing sounds.
By Mark Whittington | Published 11/19/2005 | Read more »
For the first time in history, a woman may face the death penalty in South Dakota for the kidnapping, murder, and dismemberment of another deaf woman.
By Rachel Krech | Published 4/12/2007 | Read more »
In the space of 200 years, deaf education has progressed from manualism to oralism to a bilingual-bicultural model.
By Meredith Peruzzi | Published 1/11/2007 | Read more »
Through extensive research, I realized how closed-minded people could be about deaf people.
By Jessa Holbrook | Published 5/11/2007 | Read more »
A review on 'Through Deaf Eyes' which overs the past 200 years of Deaf life in America.
By Znuage | Published 5/1/2007 | Read more »
My 16 year old son who is deaf stumbled onto this game on the pc a couple of years ago and it has really changed his life!!
By ANGELA PALAZZOLO | Published 4/4/2007 | Read more »
If you've ever felt out of place around the hearing Deafsingles.com offers a place to meet other deaf singles.
By Kessa Baylor | Published 1/31/2007 | Read more »
To enrich the life of your deaf pet, take the time to learn how to better relate with it through its other senses. Doing this will allow the two of you to have a deeper, more satisfying level of communication.
By Carolyn McFann | Published 3/20/2007 | Read more »
Curtis Pride did not make national headlines when he signed with the Los Angeles Angels last week. Although most people have never heard of the 38 year old journeyman outfielder, Curtis Pride has plenty of fans across America. Most of this fans are deaf.
By Ryan Powell | Published 1/17/2007 | Read more »
You call your cat and she won't come. Well, maybe she's just being her old stubborn self. It may take a while to realize that your cat's uncharacteristic behavior may not be a result of a quirky personality but actually deafness.
By Ilene Springer | Published 12/15/2007 | Read more »
It is not the end of the world if you suffer from permanent hearing loss. Why? Because you can hear just as good with the help of cochlear implants.
By william yap | Published 10/28/2008 | Read more »
Imagine that you have lived your whole life feeling frustrated and angry. For as long as you can remember, you have been the victim of constant oppression, being labeled as mentally retarded, misunderstood, underestimated and mistreated.
By silly rabbit | Published 6/28/2007 | Read more »
I have always been a huge American Idol fan but this year I am losing my passion for the show.
By WD | Published 3/23/2007 | Read more »
The war in Iraq is adding an estimated 27,000 individiuals to the disabled population, so NEADS is training more service dogs, which fit the active lifestyles of young disabled veterans.
By Steven Bryan | Published 6/27/2007 | Read more »
My son is the most wonderful blessing and has taught me more about life in his short time here than I will ever learn anywhere else.
By ANGELA PALAZZOLO | Published 3/10/2007 | Read more »
This article will discuss sign language used with infants and toddlers, and sign used for all individuals with special needs.
By Alicia Bodine | Published 1/10/2007 | Read more »
Growing up, my mother did not hear very well, she never saw anything unless she was staring directly at it either. For a child, this had its advantages and disadvantages.
By lalaghost | Published 3/21/2007 | Read more »
What is unusual about the village is that up until now, it has been majorly isolated from the outside world. Not only that, but in Al-Sayyid, a form of inherited deafness has been passed down from one generation to the next for the last 70 years.
By kHong | Published 6/19/2007 | Read more »
If you have never been in an environment with a Deaf person and their interpreter or need some basic information about the process, here's an outline of what to do in the situation.
By Erik Jutila | Published 2/18/2008 | Read more »
A five-men team (Four Males and One Female) high school seniors from the Atlanta Area School For the Deaf for the first time will compete at a Robotics Lego League
By Amy Bakari | Published 12/4/2008 | Read more »
This research focuses on the question of whether there exists a bona fide "Deaf Culture" as opposed to simply a "deaf" disability group with no cultural identity. Controversy still exists regarding this topic and is still up for debate.
By Trina Council | Published 4/15/2008 | Read more »
According to U.S. census reports one out of every 6,000 people was deaf during the 19th Century? In recent years American Sign Language has been added to college curriculum's as a designated "second" language.
By reasonfaith | Published 7/31/2007 | Read more »
A pregnant dolphin is deaf and experts are attempting to teach her unborn calf to speak.
By BuntingResources.com | Published 4/9/2007 | Read more »
A deaf woman expresses her thoughts on a documentary about families who choose to or choose not to help their deaf child hear with a cochlear implant.
By Znuage | Published 10/5/2006 | Read more »
A review and personal thoughts on Evelyn Glennie who is one of the world's ofremost musicians, a Grammy-winning classicial percussionist whose solo work is unrivaled, who happens to be deaf.
By Znuage | Published 10/19/2006 | Read more »
Three years ago, I lost my job due to severe headache, which left me deaf and caused me to lose nostril sensory receptors, thus I can't hear or smell anything.
By Simon Kapenda | Published 1/4/2008 | Read more »
It turns out mom was right when she told us over and over again to "Turn that down or you're going to go deaf!" In this new age of technology, children have more things at their fingertips then ever that will promote early hearing loss...
By Jennine Thompson | Published 12/20/2007 | Read more »
It was only a few years ago that communication between people who were deaf, blind, mute or hard of hearing was restricted to a TTY device installed with their home telephone.
By Lisa Stevens | Published 1/14/2008 | Read more »
Sudden Sensorineural Hearing loss (SSHL) is an abrupt deafness that lasts over a period of three days or less; mostly with and idiopathic cause that may appear unexpectedly -- with an individual going to bed hearing and waking up deaf.
By W.Garner | Published 2/28/2008 | Read more »
The breakout commercial of this years Superbowl was Pepsi's Silent Commercial. The commercial is a take off of a popular joke in the deaf community.
By Wendy King | Published 2/7/2008 | Read more »
Great poets have been revered and heralded for centuries, but Deaf poets, no matter how talented, receive little or no attention.
By Adam Michael Luebke | Published 1/22/2008 | Read more »
On the edge of Tuscumbia, Alabama, lies Ivy Green, the homestead of the Keller family plantation, and the location where a blind and deaf child had a miraculous breakthrough that changed the world around her.
By Jerry Garner | Published 10/5/2007 | Read more »
On the surface, Gallaudet University may appear to be very similar to other colleges and universities. And it is, until you discover that every student here is deaf or hard of hearing .
By Lima | Published 9/9/2007 | Read more »
I felt bad enough when I first learned I was going deaf. Then I found that my health insurance wouldn't help me with hearing aids and I felt much worse. I was forced to live with the oncoming silence for many years afterward.
By Jay Dee | Published 8/27/2007 | Read more »
The rampant violence among the youth in America today and what we're not doing to tackle the problem and allowing things to fall on deaf ears.
By Nafeesah Abdullah | Published 9/7/2007 | Read more »
After the date I thought I made it clear that I didn't want to see them again but most of them seem deaf because they wouldn't give up. They would still call me wanting to make a second date.
By Zo siadat | Published 9/7/2007 | Read more »
I sit here writing music for the deaf
the kind that throbs through lung and bone
the kind not heard by ears alone.
Bass and drums pulse with life
and beat like blood beneath my hands
filling silence with wildness
and quiet with voice.
By Kylyssa Shay | Published 3/2/2008 | Read more »
Kindness is a language all can understand. The blind can see it, the deaf can hear it.
By Alban Mehling | Published 10/16/2007 | Read more »
My mother has Alzheimer's. My father has a brain tumor and is nearly deaf. Their communications (or lack of) create a type of humor that makes being their caretaker an enjoyable experience.
By srhgompf | Published 4/14/2008 | Read more »
Assistance dogs are not common house pets; they participate in specialized training programs and work hard to help the elderly, blind, deaf or physically disabled.
By Barbara Wright | Published 10/23/2008 | Read more »
Some of the best known musicians are deaf. To know who, read this article.
By william yap | Published 10/28/2008 | Read more »
We've failed to learn from history; we've been deaf, dumb and blind to the two witnesses of raped Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ruins) and besieged South Africa (that testify against our madness); and we've rejected common sense.
By David Ben-Ariel | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
In the movie, "The Miracle Worker," teacher Annie Sullivan faced insurmountable odds in educating her deaf & blind student, Helen Keller. Barack Obama will require a similar effort in trying to resurrect his nation's economy.
By Jeffry Greenberg | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
Dog ear infection is common in our beloved pets. Knowing the prevention measures can help avoid treatment for this painful condition that could leave your dog deaf.
By Big Momma | Published 9/23/2008 | Read more »
Maybe the weather was too nice. Tuesday's rains had pushed out Minnesota's typical oppressive late-summer humidity.
By Chris Dilks | Published 9/4/2008 | Read more »
Reality is, I am Homeless still on this Sunday, May 18, 2008. I choked and spat out a swig of my two liter diet Pepsi. Because of a sonnet of an old wife's love of words she said she whispered into her husband's deaf ear.
By Freddie Versch | Published 5/21/2008 | Read more »
I've been researching the possible reasons why my cat Maya has lost her hearing.
By Ardeth Baxter | Published 7/30/2007 | Read more »
NBC's Tim Russert died of a heart attack on Friday. Only the deaf, dumb and blind can be unaware of this fact.
By Nancy Morgan | Published 6/15/2008 | Read more »
...a blind man understands that what he cannot see does not necessarily deny its existence...a deaf man understands that sounds can be heard even when he cannot hear them himself...Is it possible that something we cannot see, hear, taste, touch, or smell exists?
By Theresa Wiza | Published 7/30/2008 | Read more »
This world is dominated by music, TV, and sounds of nature, but there are souls that go through life without being able to hear these wonderful vibes; the deaf.
By Tess Evans | Published 8/27/2008 | Read more »
An editorial regarding the Hearing world's view of cochlear implants in people with profound hearing loss. The TV show, CSI is used to illustrate typical societal attitudes towards the Deaf, specifically, and also the Hard-of-Hearing.
By Trina Council | Published 4/3/2008 | Read more »
Becoming deaf turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
By Deaf Mom | Published 8/20/2007 | Read more »
Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language, written by Douglas Baynton, writes about the history of ASL (America Sign Language) in USA, and the power that the hearing population welded over the education of the Deaf.
By Znuage | Published 11/12/2006 | Read more »
What is a cochlear implant and what kind of children are good candidates for them? There are many things to consider before implanting your deaf child, including which mode of communication would best benefit their education.
By Rachel Brown | Published 11/9/2006 | Read more »
Parents who want their babies to have the same disabilities they have(such as being a dwarf, deaf, etc.)can now do so with embryo screening. This procedure is immoral and does not truly benefit the child!
By Jonathon Walden | Published 1/6/2007 | Read more »
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