Austin Business Journal Deaf and hearing-impaired customers at Frost Bank in downtown Austin will have more help on their next visit. Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc. will have American Sign Language interpreters available through a video conference through a secure, encrypted Internet link. The initiative is only available at the bank’s downtown Austin location. The program began [...]

By: Associated Press – Texarkana Gazette Associated Press Hard-of-hearing teacher Clarissa Funk, center, holds the hand of five-year-old Nathan Tavarez to her throat to help him feel the vibrations as she roars like a dinosaur Thursday at Carver Early Education Center in Odessa, Texas. At left is three-year-old Lisette Garcia. Funk uses a combination of [...]

Students Overcome Challenges To Excel INDIANAPOLIS — A group of students at an Indianapolis schools captured the top award this past weekend at an academic bowl in the nation’s capitol. The 2008 National Academic Bowl winners at the Indiana School for the Deaf took home a coveted trophy, and they did it without the spoken [...]

By KEN ROSS kross@repub.com HOLYOKE – A center in the city that helps deaf people statewide communicate on the phone will close in June, resulting in the elimination of 62 jobs. “These kinds of things don’t help the local economy,” Mayor Michael J. Sullivan said yesterday. “It’s a sign of the times. The economy continues [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Gallaudet Athletics introduces a partnership with adidas, an international sports brand, for athletic apparel. Interim Athletic Director Mike Weinstock commented, “our student-athletes deserve an optimal brand of apparel while they represent our school in intercollegiate sporting events. I’m pleased to see us partake in this endeavor that will be mutually beneficial for Gallaudet and [...]

By Todd McElwee | Staff Writer The Maryland School for the Deaf’s baseball season didn’t end the way it would have preferred. California School for the Deaf-Freemont drubbed the Orioles 16-1 in the championship game of eighth annual Dummy Hoy Tournament Saturday. Regardless of the setback, the Orioles’ weekend and overall return to the diamond [...]

The Yomiuri Shimbun A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization will open a facility Friday in Yokohama to train abandoned dogs to become service dogs for the deaf, and use socially isolated young people cocooned at home to become hearing dog trainers. Service dogs for the deaf assist the daily lives of the hearing impaired by such actions [...]

THERE is no teenager and mother angst in Wanda Gower-James’ family . . . she wants to hear her daughter. The hearing-impaired woman hopes that this will happen shortly after she is treated in Christchurch at the Southern Hearing Charitable Trust cochlear implant programme on July 9. Wanda Gower-James describes herself as profoundly deaf. Her [...]

A new study is due to address the teaching of sex and relationship education (SRE) for deaf pupils. According to lead researcher Sarah Suter, those who have not been given suitable education on this topic could be more vulnerable to abuse “because they may not recognise inappropriate behaviour or that their boundaries are being crossed”. [...]

Parents are to be quizzed about their children’s sex education in a unique study that hopes to improve the way the subject is taught to deaf pupils. The University of Manchester’s Audiology and Deafness team is recruiting parents of both deaf and hearing primary school children for its research on children’s sex and relationship education [...]