GULFPORT (WLOX) — “So y’all ready to go into the kitchen?” a volunteer asked a group of children. “Yeah!” they shouted with excitement. “Ready to cook?” he asked the youngsters. “Yeah!” they responded. This week, 20 enthusiastic children are carving up dough to make strawberry tarts.  They are also using their imagination to create works [...]

Pam Vetter Reading the honest Technicolor life shared by Karen Putz in her website www.deafmomworld.com often brings tears to readers’ eyes. The tears are from laughing, not crying. Many moms can identify with Karen and the trials she shares so openly in parenting. One of her blog entries discusses the search for a missing hearing [...]

By SETH STRATTON The Dispatch Tenth in a series of 14 profiles of high-school graduates in Davidson County. WALLBURG | He entered kindergarten with a hearing impairment and the knowledge of just a dozen words, but through hard work and the help of his family, friends, teachers and advisers, Daniel Spease will graduate Saturday. When [...]

Deaf Youth USA set to launch America’s deaf youth are “brilliant, technological savvy, and burning up with potential, ideas, and passion,” says Gallaudet graduate Melissa Malzkuhn. As of yet, however, this demographic has no national organization. That is why, this July, she will help launch Deaf Youth USA (DYUSA) with a gathering in Bayou Segnette [...]

The Yomiuri Shimbun A blind and deaf associate professor at Tokyo University Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology will be granted a doctoral degree, it has been learned. Satoshi Fukushima, 45, will become the first blind deaf person to receive a doctorate in Japan. An award ceremony will be held for him at Tokyo [...]

The South Dakota School for the Deaf faces serious allegations in a civil lawsuit Wednesday night. A Minnehaha County jury heard opening statements Wednesday afternoon in a lawsuit that accuses the administration at the school of ignoring reports of sexual abuse between students back in 2002. In the fall of 2002 a student at the [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Academy Award-winning actress and “Dancing With the Stars” sensation Marlee Matlin is working on a memoir, scheduled to come out in 2009 and tentatively titled “I’ll Scream Later.” “As a young girl, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady who just happened to be deaf, skating down the street saying hi to [...]

Australian Hearing Misconceptions about the image of hearing devices could lead to widespread social disadvantage in older Australians, according to a new report released on 10 June 2008. While the majority of Australians aged over 65 (73 per cent) were willing to consider wearing a hearing device, many associated hearing loss and hearing aids with [...]

by Melissa J. Brachfeld | Staff Writer Students at Lucy V. Barnsley Elementary School learned to appreciate the world using only their eyes and sense of touch last week. Barnsley students, some of whom are hard of hearing or deaf, served as docents for the exhibit titled ‘‘Language for the Eye” when it came to [...]

by Christian Kloc | Special to The Gazette At Frederick Memorial Hospital on Monday, a man standing in front of a video screen asked a question. Thirty seconds later, a hospital official responded to his query. Ordinarily, this event would be unremarkable, but the man who asked the question was deaf, and the hospital official [...]