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Federal Judge: OK to Sue CNN 29 Mar 2012 | 08:57 am
A Federal judge has ruled that it is okay for the Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness to continue with its lawsuit against CNN for its failure to closed caption online. The judge rejected CNN's a...
Just Replace "Black" With "Deaf" 23 Mar 2012 | 08:25 am
By now, almost everyone knows what happened to Trayvon Martin in Florida. I can easily imagine a similar situation happening with any deaf person in Florida. Picture someone like George Zimmerman cal...
Latino Moms and Deaf Babies 22 Mar 2012 | 09:26 am
Fox News Latino has a report about how a Latino mother threw herself into learning sign language and becoming part of the deaf community, when her three sons were born deaf. This mother holds weekly s...
Gallaudet University's New Master's Degree 19 Mar 2012 | 07:55 am
Last week Gallaudet University announced it was offering a new master's degree in Public Administration. The article quotes the Gallaudet president citing the need for such a degree to help deaf and h...
Will Rocky Mountain Deaf School Get New Home? 15 Mar 2012 | 09:53 pm
The Rocky Mountain Deaf School is trying to build a new home for itself. Its current home is to say the least, substandard. Would you want your child attending school next door to a bar? The neighbors...
Bullied Deaf Kids in Chicago Schools 11 Mar 2012 | 11:00 am
Are Chicago's public schools incapable of protecting deaf and hard of hearing children from being bullied? Maybe, if this story about a deaf nine year old boy with a cochlear implant is any indication...
Speech Getting Worse? Blame it on Losing Hearing 9 Mar 2012 | 10:26 am
Researchers have found that becoming deaf impacted the nerve cell connections in songbirds. This in turn affected the quality of the songbirds' songs. The researchers felt this has implications for ....
Katie LeClerc - Switched Star 7 Mar 2012 | 09:38 am
It didn't seem right to have a profile of Sean Berdy on this site without also having a profile of Katie LeClerc. So, for what may be my last article for About.com, I chose to profile Katie LeClerc, w...
Tough for Deaf Charter Schools to Survive 6 Mar 2012 | 09:49 am
After just three years, Las Vegas has lost its only charter school for the deaf (which was also the only school for the deaf in Nevada.) The school could not make it on limited funding, and with a sm...
Netflix Increases Captioning 2 Mar 2012 | 08:41 am
Almost a year ago, Netflix was sued for not captioning enough streamed content. Now, they have improved enough that they announced the improvement in a blog post. TechCrunch couldn't help pointing out...
