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Some celebrities are at one of the largest live music festivals in the world to talk about hearing loss. Verne Troyer, better known as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies and Erik Estrada, known for his role as Ponch in the TV series CHIPs and Lou Ferrigno, known for his role as the Hulk have come to the South by Southwest conference in Austin on behalf of the Starkey Hearing Foundation , which hopes to give away one million hearing aids over the next decade. The foundation is co-sponsoring a SXSW event and handing out free earplugs to concert-goers

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Celebrities Pitch for Starkey

A Hazleton, Pennsylvania teacher faces charges for allegedly threateneing to shoot the principal of her school over an assignment involving a hearing impaired student. Cynthia Lou Deluzio has been suspended and will appear in court on April 27. Police say principal Lori Ann Herman wanted Deluzio to provide notes and lesson plans to the student

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Teacher Faces Charges

A new study finds children with cochlear implants feel about the same concerning their life as their hearing peers. Researchers at the Dallas Cochlear Implant program say the findings support their claim that implants have a positive impact on young children. In the past, research suggested that hearing-impaired children have a harder time in making friends and feeling socially accepted

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Implant Study: Positive Result

Misconception: Just a few sign languages are in use around the world Fact: Sign language developed differently in various countries Misconception: ASL is not a real language but just a system of symbols Fact: ASL is its own language with its own rules of grammar Misconception: ASL is English in sign form Fact: It is a language of its own. Like any language, ASL has its own vocabulary and grammar. Misconception: A deaf person as less intelligent if that person speaks or writes English with broken grammar Fact: People who are born deaf have no access to the primary form of English, which is the spoken word Misconception: ASL is easy to learn Fact: It can take years to gain fluency Read More at DeafNewsToday.com

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Someone is targeting the deaf persons with a scam where the victims are told they are on a special list to recieve government money. However, the caller or email writer claims personal information will be necessary before the money is sent. The scammers ask for the person’s address, occupation, date of birth, account numbers and passwords

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A committee in the South Dakota Senate has killed a bill that would have changed the state constitution and allowed closure of the South Dakota School for the Deaf. The governor tried to close the campus last year but the parents filed a federal class-action lawsuit saying state’s constitution prevented the move. The bill’s sponsor, Al Novstrup, says there is a new proposal that would make the bill unnecessary

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Plan to Close School Ends

Students trying to save the Deaf Education Program at Michigan State University are planning to launch an email campaign asking administrators to, “Please keep MSU’s Deaf Education Program for our deaf children who use ASL in Michigan.” Late last year, the school announced plans to close the program. It’s one of nearly two dozen that are set to shut down.

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Protest Over ASL Program Closing

A federal investigation of Florida’s Dept of Children and Families over its failure to provide services to deaf clients has been completed. The US Dept of Health & Human Services says the agency failed to provided sign language interpreters to deaf persons in critical situations related to child protective services investigations and state mental health facilities. In the settlement, the state agency agreed to: provide interpreters when needed hire an independent consultant to oversee implementation of the settlement’s terms convene an advisory committee in partnership with the Florida Coordinating Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing establish an interpreter quality assessment and certification program designate ADA coordinators and single points of contract in the more than 100 direct service facilities operated by DCF Read More at DeafNewsToday.com

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Florida Investigation

Disability Rights Fund seeks Spanish-Speaking Grants Consultant Application Deadline: February 15, 2010 About the consultancy This consultancy position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with a groundbreaking grantmaking initiative supporting the rights of persons with disabilities.

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JOB POST: Spanish-speaking Grants Consultant, Disability Rights Fund, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Disability Rights Fund seeks Russian- and Ukrainian-Speaking Grants Consultant Application Deadline: February 1, 2010 About the consultancy This consultancy position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with a groundbreaking grantmaking initiative supporting the rights of persons with disabilities. The Grants Consultant will help the Fund build relationships with its target grantee community in Ukraine. The main objectives of the position are to support DRF staff with grantee communications and oversight and to review and evaluate Russian- and Ukrainian-language grant applications

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JOB POST: Russian- and Ukrainian-Speaking Grants Consultant, Disability Rights Fund, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

• Deaf Link uses videoconferencing technology to provide interpreters • 2008 Computerworld Honors winner in the category of business and related services • 62 employees including 42 interpreters • National liaison Mike Houston is the only deaf member of the leadership team at the company • More than 80 clients (including hospitals and government agencies) • Equipment is from Norway-based Tandberg ASA • Developed a proprietary Internet-based program to transmit emergency announcements Read More at DeafNewsToday.com

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Gallaudet is riding its longest winning streak in 11 seasons thanks to Kevin Cook who became the coach of the Bison in 2007. The team is 7-3 so far this season (3-1 in the conference) with five wins in a row.

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Getting to Know.. Gallaudet’s Women’s Basketball Coach

Cochlear implants are likely to become a lucrative market in the future as baby boomers grow older and the number of people suffering from hearing loss increases. There are three main companies making implants. · Cochlear Ltd – Based on Sydney , Australia , this company dominates the market with 70% of the market share and $700 million in sales each year

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Houston Nutt’s Ole Miss football team plays tomorrow in the Cotton Bowl. Many watching the University of Mississippi Rebels may not know that Nutt grew up playing and communicating with deaf children. His parents taught at the Arkansas School for the Deaf

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College Football Coach has Deaf Roots

VRS provider Sorenson provided more than 200,000 continuing education units (CEUs) from January through October 2009 for interpreters. The company has sponsored more than 750 interpreter workshops during the past year. Sorenson is also making available to its interpreters an American Council on Education accredited, professional development program

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Hulu is adding a Captions Search feature to its site allowing users to search for keywords within the closed captions of TV shows. The new feature indicates which parts of the videos are matching results. If you just want a quick preview of the search result, hover your mouse cursor over the image and a short segment of video around the search term will play in the thumbnail

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New research shows spoken English has more redundancy than the signed equivalent, helping to explain why sentences can be signed by interpreters in about the same time it takes to speak them. Scientists at Princeton University compared the fundamental unit of data of ASL (the handshape) to the fundamental units for spoken languages (phonemes).

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Signing at the Speed of Speech

NTID Technical college for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York Founded: 1965 Enrollment: 1474 Faculty and staff: 594 Annual revenue: $85 million Gallaudet University Liberal arts institution for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Washington, D.C. Founded: 1864 Enrollment: 1870 Faculty and staff: 1086 Annual revenue: $178 million Read More at DeafNewsToday.com

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Comparing NTID & Gallaudet

Here’s some background on the new president of Gallaudet University, Alan Hurwitz: Family: Deaf since birth, he was raised by Harold and Juliette Hurwitz, both of whom were deaf, in Sioux City, Iowa. His father worked as an upholsterer for 20 years at Sioux City Furniture Company and then for Metz Baking . Juliette was a quality assurance assembler for 25 years.

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Getting to Know.. Alan Hurwitz

Born – Philadelphia on December 10, 1787 Family – Oldest of 12 children College – Attended Yale at age 14, graduating with highest honors at 17 Ministry – Ordained in 1814, sometimes preaching at church Deaf Interest – Became interested in deaf issues when he met a 9-year-old deaf neighbor School – Founded The American School for the Deaf during 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut Travels – Learned the manual form of sign language used in France when he visited Marriage – In 1821, he married a former student and had two sons Edward – Gallaudet’s son who founded Gallaudet University in Washington, DC Thomas – Ordained as an Episcopal priest, working to provide religious services for the deaf Read More at DeafNewsToday.com

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Thomas Gallaudet’s Birthday