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Amarillo, TX
PRONEWS 7 INVESTIGATES: TEACHING THE DEAF IN AISD
Right now, the Deaf and American Sign Language (ASL) community is greatly concerned about the Amarillo Independent School District's (AISD) policy on not using ASL as the primary language of interaction for Deaf students in the classroom. AISD, instead of using ASL uses Morphemic Sign System (MSS) to instruct Deaf students. AISD says MSS is English and promotes reading and speech skills, but critics said it is isolating and limiting Deaf student's ability to thrive outside of the walls of their classroom. / ConnectAmarillo.com
See Also Flint, MI
MAN CHARGED WITH BREAKING INTO DEAF FLINT WOMAN'S HOME
Charges have been filed after police claim a deaf Flint woman was alerted to her home being broken into by her alarm's flashing lights. Flint District Judge M. Catherine Dowd authorized a warrant Thursday, Oct. 2, after Flint police allege the suspect broke into the woman's east side home Aug 25. The suspect has not yet been arraigned on the charges. / The Flint Journal
North Columbus, OH
DEAF KINDERGARTENER LEFT ON BUS AFTER PARENTS SAY DRIVER 'FORGOT' HER
Not once, but twice. That's the amount of times a North Columbus family says their 5-year-old deaf daughter was left on a Columbus City School Bus too long. Jessica and Carl Foster say when their daughter Kaleigh didn't get dropped off her bus route at her regular time Wednesday, they began calling her school and the bus garage. They say transportation officials blamed the error on a subsitute bus driver. / WTTE
Richmond, VA
FAKE LOTTERY EMAIL TARGETS HEARING IMPAIRED
Criminals are now targeting the hearing impaired. A viewer contacted 12 On Your Side after she was fooled into believing she'd hit the jackpot. You've probably never heard of the U.S.A. Deaf Lottery and it's for good reason: it doesn't exist. But that's not stopping cyber crooks. The viewer, who admittedly fell for this, was too embarrassed to talk on camera but didn't want anyone else to be fooled and called 12 On Your Side to spread the word. / NBC12
Somers, CT
HEARING IMPAIRED WOMAN FEELS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY MACYS
A woman from Somers, who is deaf, said she felt slighted by a major department store. Bernadette Balletti has been a loyal Macy's customer for decades, but said she was told that the only way she could get a replacement Macy's card was to talk with a representative on the phone. "It's wrong on so many levels," Balletti said. / WFSB 3
Albuquerque, NM
BALLOONISTS AT SCHOOL FOR DEAF
A hot air balloon crew gave some deaf pre-schoolers a lesson on ballooning this morning. It was also part of today's Albuquerque Aloft events happening at schools across the city. / KOAT
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Swift Current, SK, Canada
INQUEST INTO DEATH OF DEAF TEEN TOLD OF COMMUNICATIONS PROBLEMS AT YOUTH CENTER
An inquest has been told that staff at the Prince Albert Youth Residence had trouble communicating with a 16-year-old deaf boy who died after going into medical distress at the facility. Dylan LaChance was taken by police to the residence the day after a fight outside the high school on the Big River First Nation a year ago. Brad Impey, a case management worker, testified that early on, staff noticed LaChance had trouble communicating as they went over rules, policies and procedures. / Prince George Citizen
London, England
'MY PARTNER IS DEAF BUT WON'T ADMIT IT'
Dear Virginia: My partner is deaf but won’t admit it. The TV is on so loud that the neighbors complain, and no one can hear what she’s saying and she accuses them of being deaf. Doorbells are accused of being faulty, and she says that phones don’t ring for long enough. We don’t start conversations, because everything has to be repeated. Any suggestions? / The Independent
Dublin, Ireland
HOMELESS DEAF MUTE WHO KNOCKED A MAN UNDER A BUS TO BE ASSESSED IN THE UK
A deaf mute homeless man who killed another man by knocking him under a Dublin Bus may be sent to the UK for treatment as there are no appropriate services for him here. A jury found Edward Connors, 30, guilty last May following an eight-day manslaughter trial. He also admitted injuring, threatening or intimating two people with a syringe in separate incidents. Eoghan Dudley, 28, died almost instantly from “catastrophic and traumatic injuries” after going under the left rear wheel of the bus during rush hour traffic. / Sunday World
Sydney, Australia
THEATRE REVIEW: DEAF ACTOR'S ONE-WOMAN SHOW DIVES INTO OFFBEAT HUMOR
The one-woman show "The Sound of Waves" is inspired by the experiences of profoundly deaf actor Jodie Harris, who received a cochlear implant and had to learn to negotiate a whole new stage of sound. Playwright Gareth Ellis dives into Harris's emotional landscape -- or seascape, actually -- through whimsical submarine allegory. Harris adopts an alter-ego, a girl called Shelley whose primary school teacher, Mrs Black, has some sort of hideous personality disorder and is constantly threatening to kill off her students in gruesome ways. / Sydney Morning Herald
Canberra, Australia
DEAF CHILD CENTER TARGETED BY VANDALS
A center for deaf children and a primary school have been targeted by vandals in Canberra, with the damage bill estimated to be in the tens of thousands of dollars. Nearly 20 windows were broken by vandals at the Shepherd Centre in Rivett, which provides services for children with hearing loss, on Saturday night. Police called on the public to help identify the group of male youths behind the spree. / ABC News
Auckland, New Zealand
DEAF FOUNDATION CALLS FOR REVISION OF HEARING AID FUNDING
One in every six New Zealanders live with some type of hearing loss. Hearing aid technologies are significant key to many of them living a full life. The Ministry of Health's Hearing Aid Funding Scheme was established to cover the cost of hearing aids for adults with long-term hearing difficulties and dual disability or low income. Results from a recent survey indicate that the current hearing aid funding scheme does not meet the needs of many adults who fit the policy criteria. / Scoop News
Tokyo, Japan
EERILY REALISTIC TOSHIBA ANDROID PERFORMS SIGN LANGUAGE
Its hands are a tad too rubbery and you won’t mistake it for a human, but an android from Toshiba can effectively mimic a sign language interpreter. Shown off at the Ceatec 2014 tech fair outside Tokyo, the lifelike humanoid robot can do Japanese sign language while lip synching to a recorded message. The robot looks like a woman dressed in a pink blouse and white skirt. It was seated behind a desk and signing the words to a self-introduction heard over a speaker system. / PCWorld
Manila, Philippines
DEAF ATHLETE TEACHES WHEN NOT TO LISTEN
Athlete Lester Lagos said he is out of his element. An elite deaf swimmer, the only sound he can hear is his body, begging him to give up on his newly adopted sport—something he has learned to overcome and ignore. Last April, he found a new venue to display his talents. / Manila Standard Today
Manila, Philippines
2 DEAF MUTE GIRLS RESCUED BY MANILA POLICE
Police rescued two hearing-impaired young women who were allegedly abducted by their deaf mute friends. Policemen rescued Jay Ann Daniel 'Aya' Masangkay, 16, and Precious Mendoza Largo, 20, in a house in Manila Monday. A police investigator said the girls were found in the third floor of a small shanty. / Yahoo! News Philippines
Mumbai, India
A NAVRATIRI CELEBRATION FOR THE DEAF IN MUMBAI
At Borivali’s Mayfair Banquets, on Friday, more than 200 deaf people from around the country will gather to celebrate Dussehra with garba and dandiya. The Navratri Navyuvak Mandal will celebrate the 23rd year of the programme has dancing and a best dressed competition, as well. The idea to start a Navratri celebration for the deaf came to Rajesh Vora who is deaf too, in 1992. / Mid-Day
Darfur
SPECIALIZED SCHOOL EDUCATES THE DEAF IN DARFUR
The Centre for the Deaf in Central Darfur’s Zalingei town is the only facility of its kind providing formal education for deaf students in the area, with more than 60 students currently enrolled. The students are taught how to write and use sign language. They come from nearby camps for internally displaced persons as well as from Zalingei town and surrounding villages, according to a report by the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day. / Radio Tamazuj|
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Pataskala, OH
MEMBERS OF DEAF BLIND GROUP ENJOY DAY AT FRUIT FARM
Both deaf and blind, it's often hard for Bryan Grubb to know what to expect whenever he goes somewhere new. But he never lets his disability keep him from enjoying himself. Grubb is a member of the Central Ohio Deaf Blind Association. Donna Schultz, chairwoman of the association, brought the group to the Lynd Fruit Farm Saturday to give them an opportunity to experience something new and to have fun. / Newark Advocate
Atlanta, GA
GOOGLE GLASS LIVE CAPTIONING FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CAPTIONS NEARBY SPEAKERS
It’s not easy for deaf and hard of hearing people to communicate with others that don’t know sign language. Some have gotten pretty good at reading lips, but now a new app for Google Glass does the lip reading all on its own. Developed at Georgia Tech, the app works with a smartphone that runs voice recognition algorithms. / Medgadget.com
New York, NY
TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED VEST COULD HELP DEAF PEOPLE EXPERIENCE SOUND
Technology experts are tapping into sensory substitution for the Versatile Extra Sensory Transducer (VEST), a project now on Kickstarter that could soon be helping the deaf to experience sound in a new way. Developers break the technology down to three factors: All it takes is neurology, some motors and a smartphone, they say. In the scientific process of the VEST, the smartphone takes in sound, then processes and converts it in a high-wired vest worn by the user. / NY Daily News
Wichita, KS
SIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS GAIN EXPERIENCE IN DEAF COMMUNITY
It has been proven that the best way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in the culture and be left to your own devices. Wichita State American Sign Language students attempt to immerse themselves in the deaf culture every month. A group of sign language majors meets once a month at a west-side Arby’s with some of the area’s deaf population to hone their skill and mastery of the language. / The Sunflower
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Missoula, MT
FIRST DEAF ASUM SENATOR EXPECTED TO BE SWORN IN NEXT WEEK
It won’t be the first time he’s been the only deaf person in the room. Kirk Hash, a well-bearded 38-year-old post-baccalaureate Missoula College student, is used to it by now. Next week, he’s expected to be sworn in as the first deaf senator in the history of the Associated Students of the University of Montana. “It was kind of a gamble,” Hash said. / Montana Kaimin
Edwards Air Force Base, CA
412TH TW 'ANSWERS THE CALL' TO SUPPORT VIDEO PHONES FOR EDWARDS DEAF, HARD OF HEARING EMPLOYEES
With the increasing complexity of our .mil network, video phones that 412th Test Wing deaf and hard-of-hearing employees rely on to do their jobs had stopped working consistently. Between dropped calls, lost connections and choppy or missing video, the VPs had performance issues. Ultimately, technicians decided the only alternative left was to move the VPs off the base network on to commercial connections. While this solution was the one settled on, commercial service to Edwards is expensive. / Edwards AFB
La Vergne, TN
NWS TRAINS DEAF TO SPOT SEVERE WEATHER
Officials with the National Weather Service and Bridgestone Tires trained more than two dozen people who are deaf and hard of hearing to become official storm spotters at the tire company’s La Vergne plant Thursday evening. A NWS meteorologist and interpreter came to the event with a specific presentation for trainees and additional tools for a community officials said has been largely ignored by the weather community in the past. / The Tennessean
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Atlanta, GA
WOMAN SIGNS SONG TO DEAF FRIEND AT FESTIVAL
This concertgoer understands that the best way to enjoy music is by sharing it with your friends. A video uploaded to Instagram captures a sweet moment at TomorrowWorld 2014, an electronic dance festival near Atlanta, Georgia. In the clip, a young woman signs the song, "U" by Gareth Emery, to her friend who is deaf. / The Huffington Post
New York, NY
CBS INVESTIGATES CLOSED CAPTIONING HACKING INCIDENT
The closed captioning that we receive from CBS in New York for tonight's episode of Blue Bloods was hacked and unfortunately contained profanity and other statements that do not represent those of News 9 or CBS. We sincerely apologize for this and the lack of captioning for our hearing impaired viewers. / News9
Canton, OH
SIGNING THE SYMPHONY
Sunday night when the Canton Symphony Orchestra opens its season the audience will be able to “see” the music. An ASL interpreter will make songs by Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland accessible to all. WKSU’s Vivian Goodman reports the interpreted performance is part of a larger initiative to serve the deaf community. / WKSU
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Del Mar, CA
SOCCER TEAM HELPS DEAF PLAYERS IN ZIMBABWE
The students at the Emerald Hill School for the Deaf in Harare, Zimbabwe, have grown accustomed to getting by with what’s available, sometimes playing in conditions and with equipment that isn’t safe. Eli Colin collected uniforms and practice gear, knowing that it would live a new life at the school in Zimbabwe. He and his team collected the gear and sorted it, and Eli and his family hand-delivered it to the students this summer. Two full teams were provided with uniforms! / Del Mar Times
Colorado Springs, CO
GIRLS AT COLORADO SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND THE BLIND TRAIN FOR 5K
Girls at the Colorado School of the Deaf and the Blind prepared Monday for their upcoming 5k race. The elementary-age students are participating the Girls on The Run. The program teaches girls about healthy living and self esteem while they prepare to run a 5k. Every girl participating on the school's program is legally deaf. Coaches and athletes communicate using sign language. / KRDO