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March 27, 2007
Cochlear implants: miracle or an attack on "deaf culture"?
With a miniature computer behind her ear broadcasting signals to an electrode in her ear, Lisa Oliveri felt like there were golf balls bouncing around in her head.
It was an unpleasant feeling and a moment of despair.
A surgeon at Yale-New Haven Hospital had cut a small window in the mastoid bone, behind her ear, and inserted a tiny implant into a snail-shaped structure that translates vibrating air into sound.
Posted @ 7:26 AM
How to Feel Confident When Buying Hearing Aids Online
Buying hearing aids online can be a great way to get a quality product at a reasonable price while also saving you a significant amount of time. While it may at first seem unusual to buy your hearing aid online, you will quickly find that it isn't that much different from going into a physical store - and often it can be much easier.
Posted @ 7:25 AM
Chapman's challenge
An ear infection took Will Chapman's hearing when he was a year old, but Calabasas' senior center fielder never let the disability limit his play on the baseball diamond.
Will Chapman has played on the Calabasas High varsity baseball team for four years, but his favorite memory as a Coyote didn't come until two weeks ago.
On March 5, Calabasas upset nationally ranked Chatsworth High 12-8, and Chapman was a big part of the win, going 2-for-3 with a double while also getting hit by a pitch. The Coyotes' enthusiastic home crowd cheered Chapman and his team after the final out was recorded, but Chapman didn't hear them. In fact, he never has.
Posted @ 7:24 AM
Deaf man arrested for Internet luring of child
A Colorado Springs man was arrested Monday after allegedly trying to meet with what he believed to be an underage female who he met on the internet.
Carmen Mascitelli III, 25, was arrested by the High Tech Crime Unit and transported to the Douglas County Detentions Facility where he was booked on three felony charges including internet luring of a child.
Posted @ 7:24 AM
Deaf robber jailed for targeting shops
A deaf man who robbed shops at knifepoint has been jailed for seven years.
The tough sentence comes just days after thousands of pounds was stolen from a building society by knife robbers.
Cash was scattered across the street as raiders fled from the Nationwide Building Society on Tuesday.
Posted @ 7:23 AM
School for the Deaf stages 'Arsenic and Old Lace'
Two spinster sisters have poisoned a dozen lonely men and are working on lucky number 13.
Will they succeed?
The answer to this question can be answered at the black comedy play "Arsenic and Old Lace," the spring production from the Maryland School for the Deaf performing arts club.
Posted @ 7:22 AM
Deaf volunteers find new ways to communicate
When volunteers from the American Red Cross respond to a disaster, timing is critical. Communicating becomes the most important factor during the crisis and the biggest challenge for deaf or hard-of-hearing volunteers.
Posted @ 7:21 AM
Too deaf to face justice
An ailing 86-year-old charged with abducting a young girl will not face a trial - because he cannot hear the evidence.
Benjamin Fisher, who is profoundly deaf in one ear and has limited hearing in the other, also has little sight.
Now a Newcastle Crown Court judge has stopped the case as Fisher cannot give instructions to his defence team.
Posted @ 7:21 AM
Woman commits suicide with her deaf and dumb daughter in garden
A young woman set herself and her seven year old daughter afire in public garden in the Vastrapur area. She has left a long suicide note alleging harassment from her husband and in-laws.
The woman Praveena lived in Abhinandan apartment of Vadaj area. She went all the way to Vastrapur area late last night and committed suicide by pouring petrol over her body. She had her seven year old daughter Dhvani in her arms. Both died.
Posted @ 7:20 AM
Fair aims to make deaf community visible
With a smile spread across her face, Donna Leff jumped up and down with her arms flailing above her head in an effort to catch the attention of passing students.
But Leff wasn't part of a club campaigning outside the Memorial Union Tuesday - she was trying to raise awareness for deaf people.
Posted @ 7:19 AM
Area deaf group fights to be heard
Daniel Hanrion, a retired teacher of deaf students, plans to visit a Springfield School Board meeting to share his concerns with individual educational plans for deaf and hard-of-hearing students here.
Tim Lewsader, a deaf sign language teacher, hopes to create a network of resources and services for hearing-impaired people in southwest Missouri — with an emphasis in helping them use their legal rights according to the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Posted @ 7:19 AM
Outsourcing's Next "Victims": Deaf People
Somebody has to write those subtitles that allow the hearing impaired to watch movies. Increasingly, that work is being outsourced to India--with some unintentionally hilarious consequences.
According to UPI, professional subtitlers in the UK are up in arms over the outsourcing of their jobs to low paid workers in India. They're also complaining that the trend is resulting in substandard work.
Posted @ 7:18 AM
Web initiative tells deaf people about emergency planning
Signs for Emergency Planning
Gloucestershire web initiative tells deaf people about emergency planning through sign language video produced by EqualSign
EqualSign, a new low-cost, sign language translation service from EyeGaze, is enabling Gloucestershire County Council to prepare its deaf residents for major emergencies.
Posted @ 7:17 AM
Bank donates to homes for the deaf
The Heritage Salem Five Charitable Foundation has donated $10,500 to the New England Homes for the Deaf.
The donation will help to defray costs from the Nov. 22 Danversport explosion, which temporarily displaced nearly 60 deaf and deaf-blind residents from the Homes for the Deaf and damaged the facilities.
Posted @ 7:17 AM
Warren center for deaf offers life lessons to its members
Meet Jason Harritos. He's 27 years old, smart, funny, independent, a phenomenal cook, and deaf. As a baby he contracted meningitis ultimately causing his hearing loss. To him his hearing loss is not a disability ... he's like anyone else. He has a job, a safe and comfortable place to live and he spends a lot of his time helping fellow members at Warren's Corliss Center, Inc. located on Main Street.
Posted @ 7:16 AM
Lewiston native experiencing a new world
Like most teenagers, Jake Leffler and his mother have different opinions on what makes good television.
“He watches C-SPAN like I watch American Idol,” his mother, Sheryl Leffler said.
While that may sound unusual for a 19-year-old, it’s all par for the course for a college freshman currently interning in U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton’s offices in Washington, D.C. Born without the ability to hear or speak, the internship is just one of the major obstacles the Lewiston native has accomplished in his young life so far.
Posted @ 7:15 AM
Deaf students learning science hands-on
Quinton Ferrell, 11, dipped a Q-tip into a cup of flavored water then pressed the cotton against the side of his tongue.
The Delaware School for the Deaf fifth-grader's face puckered as he pulled it out, laughing.
Yeah, he could taste the sour.
He could taste sweet, salty and bitter, too.
Posted @ 7:14 AM
With family support, Elmira teen carves path to success
Like the other workers at E.M. Pfaff & Son Inc. in Horseheads, August Spaziani III, 19, tackles his assigned task with diligence. His focus is on making each piece as perfect as possible.
On a recent day, a co-worker, T.J. Lagonegro, showed him how to sand the rounded end of a ladder part without burning the wood.
Posted @ 7:14 AM
NPO gives deaf chefs a hand
A nonprofit organization in Kagoshima has opened a workshop for people with hearing impairments so that they can produce and sell steamed buns and crepes.
"We hope to explore the untapped ability of each worker," said Rie Sawada, head of Deaf Net Kagoshima. "We also hope our customers realize they can communicate with hearing impaired people."
Posted @ 7:13 AM
Goonga Hotel — a rendezvous for the deaf and mute
LAHORE: The Goonga Hotel on Temple Road is a rendezvous for the physically and mentally challenged people.
People from various walks of life visit the hotel to enjoy hot tea and see the dumb and deaf communicating in sign language. The hotel was set up about 70 years ago. It gained popularity due to good quality of tea being offered here.
Posted @ 7:12 AM
Blind auto mechanic hires deaf assistant
Cars have been Larry Woody's life for more than 30 years. He fixed them, he raced them, he restored them. But five years ago on Interstate 5 a truck blew across the median and drove over his tiny Toyota Celica. He almost died, and he was blinded.
But Woody, 46, still works on his 1968 El Camino, dabbles in racing and recently bought his own shop, D & D Foreign Automotive, in Cottage Grove. And he has hired a deaf assistant.
Posted @ 6:53 AM