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Anti-LGBT Rights Governor to Speak at Prominent Deaf Civil Rights Group's National Conference

Courtney O'Donnell | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Asl, Governor Dennis Daugaard, Equality, Gay Marriage, American Sign Language, Nad, National Association of the Deaf, Deaf, Lgbt, Transgender, NAD Conference, Gov. Daugaard, Gay Voices News

Gov. Daugaard is allowed his views and since he was duly elected by the people of South Dakota, I'm not going to second guess their decision. But it is fairly clear that Daugaard's view doesn't belong at the NAD conference. So why was he invited?

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Deaf Boy Struck By Cab Is Brain Dead

Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Nypd, Eva Keith, Ny News, Timothy Keith, Cobble Hill, New York News, Deaf, Long Island College Hospital, New York News

A 5-year-old deaf boy hit by a yellow cab this weekend is brain dead, The New York Daily News reports. Timothy Keith was struck after darting onto...

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New Technology Allows Deaf-Blind People To Send Texts

Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Sms, Czech Lorm Society, Mobile Lorm Glove, Remote, Science, Text, Text Message, Blind, Video, Cell Phone, Lorm, Deaf-Blindness, Message, Technology, University of Arts Berlin, Deaf, Touch, Science News

By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 04/07/2012 09:45 AM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily So far the products produced using remote-touch technolo...

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What Would You Listen To You Were Going To Lose Your Hearing?

Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Lost and Sound Documentary, Lost and Sound Film, Lost and Sound, Panic List, Video, Hearing, Deafness, Music, Film, Deaf, Lindsey Dryden, The Panic List, Culture News

Yesterday, we featured an interview with the filmmaker of "Lost and Sound," a new documentary that explores how deaf people experience music after los...

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Sounds Of Silence

HuffingtonPost.com | Gazelle Emami | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Lost and Sound, Lost and Sound Film, Lost and Sound Documentary, Lindsey Dryden Documentary, Lost and Sound Lindsey Dryden, Lindsey Dryden, Deaf, Culture News

If you only had a few minutes before you lost your hearing, what three songs would you listen to? British director Lindsey Dryden poses this question ...

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How Education Gave Me Self-Worth

Gina Anderson | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: University of Central Florida, Single Moms, Modern Psychology Studies Journal, Wisconsin, Marian University, Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, Psychology, Dr. Steven DiSalvo, Deaf, Working Families Grant, Spring-Into-Action, Impact News

My 14-year-old daughter Ally is aware of the importance of education because she sees how hard I work. I've shown her that it's possible to obtain a higher education regardless of the hand you were dealt. I became pregnant with Ally when I was just 19, and was a single parent before I even gave birth.

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Theater: Hear This Loud and Clear -- Tribes One of Year's Best

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Mare-Winningham, Deafness, Off-Broadway, Theater, Deaf, Hearing Impaired, Mare Winnigham, Entertainment News

Nina Raine's new drama Tribes is unquestionably one of the best plays of the year. Even its flaws feel like the flaws of an ambitious young playwright bursting with talent and something to say. It's the sort of talent that makes you listen very carefully.

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WATCH: Deaf ROTC Soldier Fights To Change Military Acceptance Rules

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Soldier, Keith Nolan, US Military, California State University, Tedx, California, Bravo Company, Henry Waxman, Navy, Deaf, Video, Impact News

Growing up, Cadet Private Keith Nolan knew he wanted to be in the military. After high school he went to enlist, but instead, got three words scribble...

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'NY Ink' Customer Opens Up About Hearing Implant

Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Esteem Hearing Implant, NY Ink, Tv Replay, Deaf, Hearing Impaired, TV News

Working in a tattoo parlor can be a lot like working as a bartender or a hair stylist. When people are in that chair, they tend to open up about their...

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WATCH: 'I Can Tell That We Are Gonna Be Friends': Deaf Children Perform White Stripes Cover

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Hearing Aid, Jack White, Video, D-Pan, We're Going to Be Friends, Music Video, Deaf Children, Deaf, Sign Language, American Sign Language, White Stripes, Impact News

The White Stripes may have disbanded last February, but their music is still making an impact. The band's early-2000s ballad "We're Going To Be Fr...

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Mother Goes Deaf After Giving Birth

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Hearing Loss, Giving Birth, Pregnancy, Deafness, Otosclerosis, Causes of Hearling Loss, Deaf, Going Deaf, Women and Childbirth, Childbirth, Healthy Living News

What was supposed to be a joyous day for Heather Simonsen turned terrifying when, according to a report from Utah's KSL, she lost her sense of hearing...

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Astoria Characters: The Woman Clothed in History

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Astoria, Sign Language, Cat, Pearl Gould, Broadway Silk Store, English, Columbia University, German, Lexington School for the Deaf, Fabric, Deaf, New York University, Great Depression, Yiddish, Buttons, Patterns, New York News

Pearl Gould's Uncle Elie and Aunt Esther started the Broadway Silk Store during the Great Depression, and it looks much as it did when Hoover was president. Like Pearl, it's stitched together by time.

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Think Your Phone Bill Is High? Fla. Woman Owed Outrageous Sum

AP | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: 201000, Cell Phones, 201000 Cellphone Bill, $201000, 201000 Cell Phone Bill, Weird Florida, Video, Mute, Cellphone, Cellphone Bill, Cell Phone Bill, 201000 Phone Bill, Florida, Deaf, Celina Aarons, Business News

MIAMI (Associated Press / The Huffington Post) -- A South Florida woman got a shock when she opened a recent cell phone bill: she owed $201,000. It...

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Deaf Man Battles To Join U.S. Army

AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Disabilities in the Army, Keith Nolan Deaf, Keith Nolan, Keith Nolan Army, Keith Nolan Rotc, Deafness, Army Recruitment, Deaf, Los Angeles News

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — Keith Nolan spent a decade applying repeatedly to the Army's Reserve Officers Training Corps' program before the deaf man's...

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Meet Jack Jason: The Most Famous Interpreter in the World

Nataly Kelly | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Star Jones, LaToya Jackson, Donald Trump, NeNe Leakes, Celebrity Apprentice, Ivanka Trump, Interpreters, Dancing With the Stars, Meatloaf, Translation, Deaf, Marlee Matlin, Celebrities, Culture News

What does it feel like for 8.4 million viewers to hang onto your every word as you make your case to Donald Trump? While Marlee Matlin's words are hers and hers alone, the voice that renders them into English belongs to a man by the name of Jack Jason.

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Kids, Animals and Charities -- Who Knew?

Brian Buck | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Art, Cats, Friendly Neighborhood Helpers, Pet Adoption, Animal Charities, Charity, Kids, Spay Neuter, Horses, Disability, Animals, Search and Rescue, Deaf, Dogs, Impact News

It's probably not surprising that some of the most popular charities among kids are those that assist animals. Here are five such organizations.

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My Father's Chutzpah

Marlee Matlin | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Stand Up to Cancer, Deadness, Marlee Matlin Academy Award, Marlee Matlin Deaf, Cancer, Cancer Awareness, Father's Day, Deaf, Father's Day 2011, Marlee Matlin, Impact News

It was the Matlin chutzpah, particularly my dad's, which got me through the hard times. When kids made fun of my hearing aids, he would tell me to tell them they were just big globs of bubble gum -- want some?

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Obstacle Illusions: A Conversation with Author Stephen J. Hopson

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Wall Street, Wade Travis Koch, The Trump Tower, Deaf, Norman Vincent Peale, Hearing Impaired, Stephen J. Hopson, Books News

Born profoundly deaf, and a risk-taker, Stephen J. Hopson has managed to accomplish a lot in his life so far, including publishing a new book, Obstacle Illusions: Transforming Adversity Into Success. How did he do it?

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Love Brings Healing For Girl Hit By Semi Truck

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alan Lundgard, Emilie-Gossiaux, Deaf, Blindness, Video, Impact News

When 21-year-old art student Emilie Gossiaux set out on her bike one fall morning in Brooklyn, she expected to arrive at her internship -- not a hospi...

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Open Letter to Hospital Compliance Officers: Questions to Ask as Standards Enter Pilot Phase

Louis Provenzano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Language Access, Interpretation, Medical Interpreter, Interpreter Training, Politics News, Asl, Limited English Proficiency, Hard-of-Hearing, Patient Care, Health, Joint Commission, Patients, Contractor, Hospitals, American Sign Language, Government, Language Barrier, Language, Patient-Centered Communication, Healthcare Provider, Dialect, Translation, Deaf, Healthcare, Sign Language, Spanish, Home News

New and revised Joint Commission requirements for language and interpretation standards took effect this month on a year-long pilot basis for healthca...

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Breaking Through the Silence: HIV and the Deaf

Shantha Rau Barriga | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, Disability, Uganda, Human Rights, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights Watch, Deaf, Africa, World Aids Day 2010, Disability Rights, World AIDS Day, .Sex, HIV Cure, Lord's Resistance Army, World News

Imagine the experience of Erica, an HIV-positive deaf woman in Uganda. Erica's children are beaten by her neighbors. When they played with local children, they were told to go away. They were told, "You'll spread deafness to my family."

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Fatima, 4-Year-Old Deaf Iraqi Girl, Given The Ability To Hear In India (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deaf Children, Deaf Girl, Deaf, Hearing, Iraq Deaf Girl, Hearing Impaired, Iraqi Deaf Girl, Medical Tourism, Neuro, World News

Though her parents had initially lost all hope, a deaf Iraqi girl has been granted the ability to hear thanks to a team of tireless Indian doctors, th...

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A Place for Youth who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing to Connect

Arielle Schacter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hearing Aids, Deaf, Hearing Loss, Impact News

My website, bf4life-hearing, is a social community for teens and tweens who are deaf/hard of hearing, where users can discuss their hearing loss.

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Pope Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Sex Abuse Case

Huffington Post / AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Molester, Wisconsin, Children, Pope Benedict, St. Johns School for the Deaf, Lawrence Murphy, Bishops, Pope Benedict XVI, Child Molestation, Catholics, Germany, Milwaukee, Sex Abuse, Vatican, Catholocism, Deaf Boys, Joseph Ratzinger, Deaf, Religion News

As a cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI and other Vatican officials did not punish or even hold a trial within the Catholic church for a Wisconsin priest who...

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From Disbelief and Ignorance to Anger and Action

Katharine Quarmby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Hate Crime, Hate Crimes, Social Networking, England, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Disability, Deaf, World News

Police and prosecutors are only too keen to investigate and prosecute disability hate crime. And disabled people want action. Most of the pieces of the jigsaw are there -- but it's still often too difficult to put it all together.

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