Murdered Deaf Girl Emma Agnew had text messages from alleged Killer at the time of her death

touring exhibit of Deaf artists.

Marlee matlin dances with the stars

Deaf schools across Canada are facing a class action suit alleging abuse at 8 out of 12 provincial schools

Deaf parents say that the state school for the Deaf and Blind (ASDB) failed to provide an adequate education for their child.

The Holocaust of WW 11 as retold by Deaf survivors

FDA sues Advanced Bionics Cochlear Implant maker for 2.2 million in fines for manufacturing violations

40 years of silence broken after lawsuit alleging abuse and molestation at Boston School for Deaf

A Deaf-Blind woman was starved to Death by family members in what police call the worst they have ever seen.

New web site for Deaf job seekers

Deaf Man serving an 11 year sentence appeals his sentence because the Wisconson courts denied the man interpreters in his case.

Deaf parents are fighting the courts in Milwaukee Wisconson for the right to have an interpreter.

Dog saves Deaf woman from fast moving apt fire in Phoenix.

VPAD appears at Deafnation expos throughout the country with a special price for registered visitors.

Deaf Attorneys prove themselves in court

Four Deaf Australians are suing an airline for discrimination.

UK publishing company prints books for the Deaf

Pepsi Co sponsors a one minute video with Deaf actors using ASL as part of the Super Bowls pre game ad lineup

VRS companies have been complaining about the high volume of Prank calls clogging their call centers

Marlee Matlin and Jeff Daniels appear on the HallMark Hall of Fame theater as a married couple struggling with the issue of Cochlear Implants for their son

Deafness may not fall into the category of serious medical conditions when it comes to embryo-screening procedures in Britan.

Captioning mistakes at Movie premiere of the "Queen" leave Aussie Deaf wondering what happened?

CNET adds captioning to it programs for Deaf viewers.

Colorado Springs woman latest victim of an internet scam targeting the Deaf community, promising big rewards while working from home.

The Associated Press reports: Glenny Lee Buquet, the head of the board overseeing the Louisiana School for the Deaf says she will call for a report today due to a series of recent sex-related arrests involving individuals connected with the school.

Tiger Airways denies having a policy that insists that deaf people travel with a carer, but Tiger flight attendants say they've been told otherwise

A new hybrid hearing aid/cochlear implant device designed for patients who can benefit from both is being evaluated by UT Southwestern Medical Center as part of a multi-site, national study.

A new billboard is up in Omaha promoting the Omaha Hearing School but some Deaf and hearing impaired people in Omaha say the billboard is offensive.

Rochester Institute of Technology President William W. Destler and RIT's Board of Trustees have named the first president of RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

Las Vegas Charter School of the Deaf is set to open as Nevada’s first ever deaf school.

A recent U.S. study published in Ergonomic reports that sign language interpreters are at risk for carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis.

AT and T has announced they will offer a data-only plan for deaf, hearing-impaired and speech-impaired customers.

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is looking for deaf talent for the 49th Biennial NAD Conference in New Orleans on Tuesday, July 8, 2008!

Snap!VRS, the video relay services provider that distributes the Ojo video phone, has announced the launch of its new VRS speed dial feature.

On Friday afternoon, authorities arrested the man they say attacked a 16-year-old deaf girl in a California parking lot last month.

It’s Deaf Awareness Week in the UK and celebrities are showing support.

140 deaf and hard of hearing elementary –aged children in Tacoma Washington were recently put in charge of a city!

For ages, the deaf have been targeted by predators and abusers, leaving the abused isolated, and emotionally injured.

The new text number will enable those who cannot use a voice telephone to access the emergency services.

Utah-based Sorenson Communications has set up a VRS call center in Burnaby Canada, but it will only serve deaf Americans.

A dorm supervisor at the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin has been charged with having an improper relationship with a student.

Canadian Howard Weinstein, age 57, set out on a mission to make affordable hearing aids available to people in developing nations.

During his time at a Houston church for the deaf, Flournoy allegedly molested hearing-impaired students and paid them to participate in sex acts.

The Fresno Bee reports that two deaf students, Trisha Houston and Diane Dorais, will be honored at Fresno City College’s graduation tonight.

A deaf teen from New York is a regional finalist in the Doodle 4 Google contest to reinvent Google's home page logo for a day.

Deaf, ASL, News, Video, Police in UK Learn Sign Language

CNN reports Boston University has been awarded a 3-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an interactive video that uses a camera to interpret signs, then explains its use and meaning.

A new film about William Ellsworth Hoy is making its Boston debut as part of the Brookline theater’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing film series.

The Washington Post reports, in the last two weeks, 8 homes near Gallaudet University have been burglarized.

What does a city need to accommodate Deaf residents?

Recently, Australia awarded the 2008 Premier’s Award for health and medical research to Dr Wei.

Inside Gallaudet reports the Peace Corp, a US federal agency now in its 47th year of promoting world peace, may be giving the deaf more opportunities to travel around the world.

Recently, Verizon announced that customers in three Northeast states who are deaf or hearing impaired can use videophones to communicate directly with the company about service-related issues.

Recognizing that more than 3 million children in the US are deaf, Lockhart Entertainment has developed an animated television series that features sign language in a fun, entertaining format for all preschool age children.

The trial against the South Dakota School for the Deaf began Wednesday. SDSD faces serious allegations that the administration knowingly ignored sexual abuse that took place in 2002.

The Associated Press reports Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin is now working on a memoir titled “I’ll Scream Later”.

Now Deaf Americans only need one telephone number, a breakthrough for the deaf who previously had to provide two numbers to receive telephone calls via a sign language interpreter

Sheriff’s deputies and park rangers have rescued a 28-year-old deaf hiker who was lost in 112 degree heat in San Diego’s Anza Borrego State Park.

NTID News reports, next week, hundreds of educators from around the world will attend a tech symposium in Rochester.

The Arizona Daily Star reports Marcus Titus isn't like any of the other 39 University of Arizona swimmers preparing for next week's Olympic Trials. He has an interpreter but he doesn't see himself as a deaf swimmer, just a passionate man with goals like every other elite swimmer in the world.

The Jamaican Cleaner Newspaper reports the Jamaican government may soon amend the law to allow deaf persons to obtain driver's licenses.

Schwarz Financial Services celebrates 25 years of providing specialized financial and investment services for the Deaf with a fund raiser for the Deaf Abused Women’s Network (DAWN)

The worlds first portable TDD, the “MCM”, was introduced in 1973. Now, 35 years later the FCC issued an historic ruling and handed to the deaf community a civil rights victory by requiring relay providers to provide real, 10-digit phone numbers to their customers.

Proposed changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act may lead to more lawsuits as business owners struggle to comply. The Justice Department says costs affected businesses and government agencies could total $23 billion over 40 years.

A deaf couple in Xiamen, CHINA have been crowned "e-Business champions," with a total of 2.1 million yuan, or more than 300 thousand US dollars in annual turnover from their online business.

TechGirlz Camp, which is sponsored by the Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf. The week-long residential program is open to seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders and has attracted participants who are hearing-impaired from around the country.

Ivanhoe Newswire reports elderly deaf adults may score lower on mental health tests because of a language translation issue, new research shows.

Maria Belen Dutto fulfilled her dream of competing at the Olympic Games.

Deaf children have been testing software that enables them to see a visual representation of sound waves.

Deaf people could one day have their hearing restored through a groundbreaking gene therapy technique, a new study suggests.

A church in FORT SMITH, Ark. is making a difficult situation much easier for some Hurricane Gustav evacuees with special needs.

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) filed a complaint on August 14, 2008 with the United States Department of Justice. The complaint alleges that, on two separate occasions, Clinical Radiologists, located in Maryland, refused to provide qualified sign language interpreter services to communicate with a patient who is deaf-blind.

In a move to make videos easier to understand without volume or for the hard of hearing, YouTube has given users the option of embedding closed captions that show up as semitransparent overlays

It's opera but not as many people know it. The stars of this performance of 'The Hunt of King Charles' opera are all deaf.

An extraordinary evening on Saturday, October 4, 2008, Bernard Bragg’s 80th Birthday Bash, at Gallaudet University’s Kellogg Conference Center! This unique celebration and fundraiser is being organized by and will benefit the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and the National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD). A similar event will be held in Los Angeles that will benefit the NAD and Deaf West Theatre.

In order to make video games more accessible to those with hearing impairment, Ubisoft Wednesday announced plans to include subtitles in all internally-developed titles.

Infants with permanent hearing loss benefit in terms of language development from being enrolled very early -- before 3 months of age -- in intervention programs, according to a new study.

For generations, Deaf artists and poets relied on personal connections to tell their stories. But advancement in technology through blogs or video "vlogs" has changed the way their message can now be spread.

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and a private law firm represented a deaf man in an employment discrimination case on appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. In an opinion issued on September 12, 2008, the Court of Appeals reversed the district court’s decision to dismiss the case and returned the case to the district court for further proceedings.

FARGO, N.D. - A deaf man scribbled notes to help police here identify and arrest a suspect who allegedly robbed the man and broke into a downtown liquor store.

In a display of bipartisan support and by a unanimous voice vote on September 11, 2008, the U.S. Senate passed the “ADA Amendments Act of 2008” (formerly called the “ADA Restoration Act”). The House of Representatives passed a similar bill by an overwhelming vote of 402 to 17 on June 25, 2008.

Sorenson Communications, the nation's leading provider of Video Relay Services for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use American Sign Language to communicate, today announced that deaf and hard-of-hearing SIPRelay users can now receive calls from hearing associates on their computers or mobile devices while using AOL Instant Messenger.

Have you ever missed a flight because there was a gate change and no visual information was provided? Have you sat at a gate for hours wondering why your plane hasn’t boarded yet, because the only announcements made were over the loudspeaker? Have you landed in an unexpected location because your flight was diverted, and the announcement made was not accessible? Many deaf consumers have experienced these problems.

A Deaf woman was arrested after she was accused of pointing a knife at an acquaintance and forcing her way into the victim's home.

"Deaf Community” ignored ahead of National Fire Prevention Week. The Australian Federation of Deaf Societies identified a lack of programs to support people who are Deaf or hard of hearing in accessing smoke alarms.

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) encourages local communities throughout the USA to become part of its ASL is Awesome for All! campaign, which promotes the long-standing position of the NAD that American Sign Language (ASL) is a basic human right and the natural language of the American deaf community.

A federal district court in Maryland held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires the Washington Redskins “to provide deaf and hard of hearing fans equal access to the aural information broadcast over the stadium bowl public address system at FedExField, which includes music with lyrics, play information, advertisements, referee calls, safety/emergency information, and other announcements.”

Two Gallaudet alumni, John T.C. Yeh and son, Jason T. Yeh, have recently garnered considerable recognition for their work and the accomplishments of their company, Viable, Inc.

Munir Muwwakkil is a relatively unknown defensive tackle for Edward Waters College, in Jacksonville, FL, but like most football players, he'd like to make it to the NFL. But should he fulfill that dream and be introduced before a game, Muwwakkil will never hear the crowd's response to his introduction.

What do Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low, former Miss America Heather Whitestone and former Major League Baseball outfielder Curtis Pride have in common? All three were deaf. Learning about famous hearing-impaired Americans is one part of Deaf Awareness Week at Stanleytown Elementary School.

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. – Ashley Reuss can’t hear the director’s calls during productions of “The Firebird” because she is deaf. “So, I have to make sure that my lines and my timing are exact… I’m watching all the body language of all the people,” Reuss said through an interpreter. “I don’t want to miss something, I have to make sure I remember each line and remember each movement.”

Twenty-eight million Americans with severe hearing loss do not have full access to information about political candidates and election issues. This fact is what fueled WXXI's launch of an accessible election Web site for deaf and hard of hearing citizens.

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is partnering with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to make sure important information reaches the deaf community.

Keith Wann, one of only four Deaf comedians, barely uttered a word during his stand-up comedy routine in Streamwood this month, and afterward there was only applause.

LAWRENCE, MA. Sitting in the Lawrence High School cafeteria, an engineer at Raytheon and three students developed a quick friendship without speaking a word. The four communicated using sign language. They learned about each other's families, school, work, and the students' futures.

Students with the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind finally put their skills to the test by running their own town.

The movie "The Legend of the Mountain Man", is completely in ASL and DOES NOT have captioning/sound.

More than 300 people will make their way to Royal Canadian Legion Branch 99 for the Canadian Deaf Darts Championship Nov. 6 - 8.

In Halifax, Canada, teenager Jamie Routledge wanted to do a good deed at her school but was unexpectedly thwarted. The 12th grade student was prepared to give blood at a clinic at the J.L. Ilsley High School on Oct. 17, but a staff-person from the Canadian Blood Services event abruptly turned Jamie down because she is deaf.