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July 6, 2006
Explaining tinnitus
Tinnitus is characterized by a persistent sound in one ear or both ears. It's usually a ringing sound, although many people hear a hissing, roaring or clicking. Symptoms can range from severe to only mildly distracting. The sound may be constant or it may come and go, and may vary from quiet to very loud.
Posted @ 12:45 AM
Healthy hearing under assault from the sounds of summer
"It's summertime," goes the old song, "and the livin' is easy." It's also noisy, according to Brad Buchholtz, an audiologist at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch. The list of things he reels off that can damage hearing and cause tinnitus is positively deafening: Parades. Lawn mowers. Power boats. Power tools. Rock concerts.
Posted @ 12:43 AM
Deafness can't keep Sloat off the field
Isaac Sloat recently completed his senior season with the Green Bay Southwest High School lacrosse team. He was a two-year starter and was a team captain, a do-anything type of player coaches love.
Ask those who know him, and they'll tell you how intelligent he is. About how he was accepted to Boston University but couldn't go because it was too expensive.
Posted @ 12:41 AM
Hearing aid advances
Hearing is one of the most relied-upon of the five senses. But when it starts to fade, life can go on normally thanks to sophisticated new hearing aids and surgical procedures that can restore much -- if not all -- of what was lost.
Posted @ 12:40 AM
Advocates for Deaf Education raise $20K in charity golf
Advocates for Deaf Education, made up of parents of hearing-impaired children, raised $20,000 in the organization's third annual charity golf event June 9 at Hamilton Elks Golf Club.
Founders of the group - Steve Burns, Tom Garriga, Mike Gartner and Bob Murphy - helped get 160 golfers for the event.
Posted @ 12:39 AM
Team learns sign language to communicate with deaf player
Baseball players at Fermi High School have found a new way to boost team spirit. To communicate better with Douglas Giaccone, the Enfield school's only deaf student who joined the baseball team this past spring, the team's practice has included one hour each week learning sign language.
Posted @ 12:38 AM
Frontier division offering new technology, sign classes to aid deaf, hard of hearing
Remember the old days when The Jetsons popped into your living room on Saturday mornings? George Jetson always used his futuristic technology to call his wife Jane, who could see her husband’s face on a television screen and communicate with him that way.
Posted @ 12:36 AM
Gallaudet president should remember the culturally deaf
They won't listen. You know why — it is just because I am deaf." "I have no time to advocate for our rights." "I don't want to lose my job." "They didn't understand me because I didn't use my voice." Sadly, I am an authority on this topic. Having been profoundly deaf since birth as well as a parent of a deaf child, I am familiar with issues of unintentional and intentional discrimination that are unique to a group of Americans and international citizens who are deaf. My peers and I are used to being treated a little bit differently.
Posted @ 12:35 AM
School for Deaf to go up near Davies
An agreement to build a $31.3-million Rhode Island School for the Deaf behind Davies Career and Technical School, in Lincoln, has been reached by state and school officials, who have spent months wrangling over a location.
Posted @ 12:34 AM
Sonic boom damages deaf children society's facilities
Israeli Occupation Forces damaged the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children's facilities in Gaza City during IOF's implementation of "Operation Summer Rain."
When Israeli warplanes caused massive sonic booms and nearby explosions in air strikes, the Palestinian NGO's building windows shattered. As a result, several deaf vocational trainees were injured from the shattered glass.
Posted @ 12:33 AM
Deaf Pilots Association comes to Martin Field
A unique and dedicated group of pilots will hold their annual fly-in at Martin Field in South Sioux City, Monday through Friday. The Deaf Pilots Association (DPA) based in Knoxville, Tenn. will gather for their 13th annual fly-in.
DPA members come from all over the United States, some European countries and Australia. Some members use American Sign Language while others employ lip reading. Many members are hard of hearing, while others have become deaf later in life.
Posted @ 12:32 AM
Deaf community bonds at festival
Keg throwing. Mud wrestling. Pole climbing. Flying axes. No, not spring break. Those are all featured activities this weekend at the Eastern Deaf Timberfest at Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts in Natural Bridge. The biannual event drew about 500 adults and about 200 to 300 children from as far away as Poland and Japan, according to event organizers.
Posted @ 12:31 AM
Parents, employees not represented in talks on deaf, blind schools
The Oregon School for the Blind has been in existence since 1873 and under the supervision of the state. Now, a task force has recommended that the school for the blind be combined with the school for the deaf and the jobs of the staff be contracted to a different organization other than the Oregon Department of Education.
Posted @ 12:30 AM
Gory gangland murder left my life in tatters
A deaf and mute man who was wrongly charged with the murder of one of Wales' most dangerous gangsters was "fitted up", his solicitor claimed last night. Malcolm Martin always denied killing Cardiff career criminal Courtney Davies, whose badly burned body - stabbed 72 times in a frenzied attack - was found hidden in undergrowth in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire in December 2004.
Posted @ 12:27 AM
Deaf services agency celebrates 10 years in San Marcos
The banner above the door at Signs of Silence says "Welcome Home," and it's a fitting slogan for a celebrated nonprofit organization that has provided a community for North County's deaf population in the last decade. The service, run by Roy Hensley, has operated in a small office on Commerce Street in San Marcos since 1996.
Posted @ 12:26 AM
Earlier cochlear implant, better language
The earlier a deaf infant or toddler receives a cochlear implant, the better his or her spoken language skills at age 3 and a half is, find U.S. researchers. Johanna Grant Nicholas of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Ann E. Geers of the Southwestern Medical School at the University of Texas at Dallas tested the spoken language skills of 76 children, all 3 and a half years old, who had cochlear implants and compared those results to the length of time each child had his or her implant.
Posted @ 12:24 AM
Deaf teen overwhelmed with offers of help
A day after she was close to giving up hope of attending a prestigious summer camp for the deaf, 16-year-old Violet Blake has a new problem on her hands. She has too many offers for help. A Connecticut Post article about her plight generated an overwhelming response from individuals and businesses from Milford to Westport.
Posted @ 12:23 AM
Teen's charges bound over in deaf man's shooting
A teenager accused of robbing and shooting a deaf man June 21 at Guardian Courts Apartments is now serving out a sentence for violating probation.
Dana Tyrone Hardin, 18, was sentenced Thursday in Jackson City Court to 11 months and 29 days in jail on a violation of probation charge, according to the court clerk's office.
Posted @ 12:22 AM
SFCC graduate takes stock in future as deaf educator
Looking into the future, Michelle Kirkland sees herself teaching deaf children how to communicate in American Sign Language.
Looking back seven years, Kirkland remembers when her dream of attending college became a reality. Back then, Kirkland, a sixth-grader, heard about the Take Stock in Children scholarship program sponsored by the South Florida Community College Foundation and she applied to it.
Posted @ 12:20 AM