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July 26, 2007
Deaf teen tapping her way to fame
Disability doesn't deter state's Outstanding Teen American from competition. For the next few weeks, Elena LaQuatra, 15, will be spending a lot of time in a dance studio at the Center for Theater Arts in Mt. Lebanon spinning, twirling and tapping like crazy as she prepares for her big day.
Elena was recently named Pennsylvania's Outstanding Teen America when she won the Miss Pennsylvania Scholarship Pageant held in Nazareth, Pa. She's now preparing for the national competition, Miss America's Outstanding Teen Pageant, which will be held Aug. 7-11 in Orlando, Fla.
Posted @ 11:07 AM
Arkansas native named SSSD superintendent
The superintendent’s home finally has a resident. After a three-year national search for someone to lead the Scranton State School for the Deaf, Monita G. Hara, Ed.D., has been appointed to the position.
Dr. Hara moved into the stately, four-floor house on the North Washington Avenue campus earlier this month. She spent the last two weeks meeting with administrators and staff and getting accustomed to operations at the school for the deaf and hearing impaired, which will enroll about 100 students this fall.
Posted @ 11:05 AM
Deaf man sentenced for shooting neighbor
A 51-year-old deaf man was ordered to serve nearly four years in prison for shooting and wounding his neighbor.
Steven E. Marshall, who already has served more than five months of the sentence, received a minimum sentence of 43 months in prison for guilty pleas to assault with intent to do great bodily harm, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and improper discharge of a weapon.
Marshall had claimed he shot Jeffrey Hein in self-defense, but pleaded to a lesser offense in a deal with prosecutors. He later tried to withdraw his plea and go to trial, but Macomb County Circuit Judge James Biernat turned him down.
Posted @ 11:03 AM
Brain may reorganize after implant of cochlear device
Cochlear implants—electronic devices inserted surgically in the ear to allow deaf people to hear—may restore normal auditory pathways in the brain even after many years of deafness.
The results imply that the brain can reorganize sound processing centers or press into service latent ones based on sound stimulation. Jeanne Guiraud, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Lyon, Edouard Herriot University Hospital, and Advanced Bionics, a firm that makes cochlear implants, worked with deaf subjects from 16 to 74 years old and found that younger subjects and those with a shorter history of deafness showed changes that mirrored patterns in people with normal hearing more closely. The results were published in the July 18 Journal of Neuroscience.
Posted @ 11:02 AM
Legally Blind And Deaf, Graduate Student Nears Completion Of His Ph.D.
Standing in the elevator of the chemistry building at the University of Albany, I'm not sure what to expect. Before I reach the third floor, the doors open and doctoral student Christopher C. Wells walks in; we look at each other knowingly and smile. When the doors open again on the third floor, Wells motions for me to follow him as he zips down the hall to his lab.
Posted @ 11:01 AM
Deaf priest hears God's calling
When Carmelo Giuffre told his mother he was going to become a priest later in life she answered, "What were you waiting for?"
Milwaukee-born and raised in a Sicilian family, the Rev. Giuffre joins Holy Family Parish in Fond du Lac as its fifth Catholic priest.
He will serve St. Joseph's Church located on the corner of South Marr and East Second Streets.
Posted @ 10:59 AM
Hanover man defies disablility, directs deaf tennis team
Sounds can be taken for granted in a sport such as tennis.
The sound of the ball striking the racket or the court. The shuffling of feet on the surface. The call of the score. The yell of a linesman that a shot or serve was out.
Hanover resident Howard Gorrell has never had the privilege of hearing such sounds on a tennis court. He has been deaf since birth.
Posted @ 10:58 AM
Deaf Man Carjacked at Knifepoint
Police are searching for a man who carjacked a driver at knifepoint Sunday night.
According to officers, the driver was a deaf man who could not speak. He was traveling on the 900 block of Roosevelt Street, just south of downtown, around 11:00 p.m. Police say he offered a ride to a man who was walking down the side of the street.
Posted @ 10:57 AM
Bringing footy gift to the deaf
Remember the great Frank Hyde? I think of Frank and hear "It's long enough, it's high enough, it's right between the posts''.
Frank's trademark description is rugby league legend, and he coined it because of a blind man, Len Hallett - who sold pencils in George Street. Len once told Frank "you are my eyes''.
Posted @ 10:55 AM
July 22, 2007
What? Hearing aids cost how much?
Growing up in the 1960s, loud music was a social staple for Ruthann Cage. Highlights of her youth included coveted tickets to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in Chicago in 1964. At college parties, Cage occasionally joined a band on stage "banging a tambourine with the other sorority girls."
Decades later, Cage found herself straining to hear conversations. She could no longer distinguish consonants. Names such as "Harry" became "fairy."
Posted @ 7:57 AM
World's Largest Family With Inherited Hearing Loss
Hidden deep in China's Jiangsu Province, far off the beaten track, there is a small village with a very large family. The family, while known for its size, has instead become the subject of research because of a hearing loss passed down over its generations.
After more than 20 years of clinical and molecular genetic research, medical experts from Jiangsu Province have only recently straightened out the family's clinical characteristics, genetic phenotype, and the mutant factors causing the loss of hearing.
Posted @ 7:51 AM
Technology gives right signs for deaf people
A WELSH not-for-profit company has developed technology to help deaf people communicate with people in the hearing community.
The video telephony product was launched at BT’s data centre in Cardiff Bay yesterday by SignWales , a Cardiff-based social enterprise set up by the Deaf Association of Wales and Deaf Studies Trust.
It will allow deaf people to communicate with each other in sign language at a distance and also to talk with the hearing community through the use of online interpreters.
Posted @ 7:50 AM
Cochlear Implants Bring The Gift Of Sound
Thursday was a life-changing day for Austinites Cory and Kade Walters, two young boys who share what doctors call profound deafness. Parents Christy and K.C. Walters located doctors in Austin who could give their sons the gift of sound.
Doctors gave Kade a cochlear implant when he was 9 months old and at 3, he's getting his second implant activated. His little brother, Cory, had his implant operation a week ago and will hear for the first time Thursday.
Posted @ 7:49 AM
Students empowered at NBDA’s Collegiate Black Deaf Leadership Institute
Six Gallaudet students recently benefited from a memorable week of networking and training by attending the Collegiate Black Deaf Student Leadership Institute at the 25th Anniversary National Black Deaf Advocates (NBDA) Conference in St. Louis, Mo.
Anquinette Kimble, Serge Okogo, Ismella Saul, Nkiruka Akunwafor, Gizelle Gilbert, and Matthew Maxey met successful black deaf leaders, studied ways to empower others, discovered little known facts about black deaf history, and learned that whatever obstacles they may face, the key is to never give up.
Posted @ 7:49 AM
Takoma Park woman chosen for World Deaf Volleyball Championships
Serve. Set. Spike. For Ludmila Mounty-Weinstock, the language of volleyball is universal, even for the deaf.
The Takoma Park resident and 21-year-old junior at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., was chosen along with 14 others — seven are current Gallaudet students — to make up the USA Deaf Volleyball Team, a group that uses American Sign Language to call plays and communicate with the coach and teammates.
That team, including Mounty-Weinstock, will participate in the World Deaf Volleyball Championships next summer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and 12 of them will go on to play in the Summer Deaflympics in September 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Posted @ 7:48 AM
A special place to feel at home
The music is blaring, beats are pounding and Anthony's got his groove on.
The 11-year-old can't hear the tunes, but he sure can feel the vibe. It makes him a lean, mean dancin' machine. "Dancing is easy and it's fun," he said in sign language, interpreted by Hillary Rumball, 18, program director at the camp.
Aside from the fancy footwork, Anthony loves all the other activities at camp. "I grew up here," he signed, a big grin on his face. And it's where he's made a lot of friends. He definitely feels at home.
Posted @ 7:47 AM
July 19, 2007
Hearing loss doesn't keep students from driving
Mike Dykema's hearing problems don't make him a bad driver.
In fact, his instructors say it might make the Northview High School sophomore a better driver than many of his peers. He is more focused, with a keener awareness of his surroundings.
Hearing-impaired students who want to go through the program "usually end up being some of our best drivers," said Barry Bradford, director of the school's driver's education program.
Posted @ 6:57 AM
Sweet sounds of the game aren't lost on deaf golfer
The putt was simple and true as it rolled slowly off the face of Kevin Hall's putter. It was a "gimme" that barely traveled two feet before the little white ball trickled over the trimmed edge of grass, dropped into the white plastic cup and made that distinctive plllllunnnnkkkk of a ball rattling around in the bottom of the hole.
But Hall didn't hear the ball rattle. He also didn't hear the crickets chirping in the tall reeds, or the gentle drizzle pelting the surface of the greenside lake, the wind whistling through tree branches, or the songbirds' sweet serenade.
Posted @ 6:54 AM
Residents still question plans to combine deaf, blind schools
Concern about the consolidation of the Ohio Schools for the Deaf and Blind continues to grow as demonstrated by the turnout at the Clintonville Area Commission's July 5 meeting at Whetstone Library.
About 75 people crowded the room to hear Eric Algoe, the school's chief operating officer, and Rob Grinch of the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission, explain the project's status.
The state released nearly $1-million last week to begin planning and design work for the consolidation effort. Nearly $4-million has already been earmarked by the state for that phase of the project.
Posted @ 6:53 AM
Agency spreads awareness of deaf culture
Imagine sitting in a restaurant eating dinner with a small group of friends. No one is really talking or making loud noises; instead, there are fingers and hands moving swiftly, as everyone uses sign language to communicate.
The social activity known as the "Silent Dinner" is just one of the events that Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing of Davidson County holds twice a month to create stronger fellowship within the deaf community. July's first dinner was held at Cracker Barrel last Tuesday.
Posted @ 6:52 AM
New technology transforming life for the deaf
Multi-function phones, webcams and other new technological innovations have transformed the lives of the hard of hearing, delegates at an international congress of the deaf said on Tuesday.
"Technology is important for the deaf community. There's the Internet, webcams, email, SMS and chat systems," said Amparo Minguet, director of training at the institute for the deaf in the eastern city of Valencia.
Posted @ 6:52 AM
World without sound
I'd always taken my voice and hearing for granted. Whenever I needed a pen or someone to hold a door, I merely asked. However, as my group began its interactive tour of the newly opened Invitation to Silence exhibit at the Israel Children's Museum in Holon, I suddenly lost this luxury. Handing us headsets that would muffle all noise, the staff organizer explained that for the next 90 minutes we we'd be forbidden to speak - an intimidating thought. As our group of 12 journalists, some of whom had brought their children, was escorted into the introductory room, a loud clatter of screaming voices was our send-off into the world of silence. Our deaf guide, Alon Zino, then led us into the next room through a series of friendly hand gestures.
Posted @ 6:49 AM
July 16, 2007
Camp lets hearing-impaired kids use skills
Emma Proietti said she was the only student at Highlands Latin School last year who had a cochlear implant to help her hear. "It's annoying when kids always say, 'What's that thing on your head,' " Emma, 8, said.
But last week, Emma didn't have to deal with that. She spent the week at a camp for children who have hearing aids or cochlear implants -- an electronic device that provides sound to those who are deaf or severely hard-of-hearing.
Posted @ 6:18 AM
High-tech hearing aids are music to boomers' ears
Michael Bellusci's quotation in his high school yearbook was, "It ain't rock if it ain't loud." While growing up in Flushing, Queens, he played guitar and drums, idolized Jimi Hendrix and performed in cover bands. Later, he went on the road as Ringo in the musical "Beatlemania."
These days, if his left ear happens to be covered by a pillow, Bellusci, 47, hears the alarm clock as a faint tick, tick, tick, not a blaring BEEP, BEEP, BEEP. In cacophonous restaurants, he watches people's mouths so he can follow the conversation.
Posted @ 6:16 AM
Lending a hand for hearing
Everett Holmes wore his tiny new hearing aid for two weeks before his wife detected anything different. And that was before this summer's cutting edge receiver-in-ear technology came along, slicing the size of hearing aids in half again.
"I wanted to see how long it would take before she noticed," said Holmes, owner-operator of Beltone Hearing Centers in Joliet, Princeton and Spring Valley.
Posted @ 6:10 AM
Government agency funds adult content programming for the deaf
A government body has granted an adult broadcaster a subsidy to provide sign-language translations for a news program in which the presenter doubles as a stripper, stirring controversy among handicapped people and others.
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), an affiliate of the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry, provided about 150,000 yen in subsidies to Paradise Television Inc. to help pay for its sign-language translations for hearing-impaired viewers of "Hadaka no News Station" (Naked News Station) from October 2006 to March this year.
Posted @ 6:09 AM
Ohio teen to compete at World Deaf Swimming Championships in Taiwan
Kristoffer Lauderbaugh will race against the world's best deaf swimmers as he represents the United States at the World Deaf Swimming Championships Aug. 9-18 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Lauderbaugh, 19, of Concord Township, swam on the varsity team for Riverside High School in Painesville, and he is on the swim team at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., where he studies mathematics.
Posted @ 6:08 AM
Kohler man aims to be nation's first deaf bank president
James Meisser of Kohler is striving for a couple of firsts — to be the first profoundly deaf bank president in the nation and to run the first financial institution to use modern technology to cater to customers with disabilities.
"The speed has picked up in the development of technology, which has also made it very affordable," said Meisser, 48, who has been profoundly deaf since he was born, meaning he has never heard any sound.
Posted @ 6:07 AM
Postman kicked deaf dog then fought owner
A postman has been sentenced for kicking a dog and fighting with its owner.
Michael Crowley, of New Road, in Anderton, faces a curfew after being found guilty of assault by beating and causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
The 33-year-old appeared at Vale Royal Magistrates' Court on Wednesday after the incident, which happened in December last year, and was convicted after an earlier trial.
Posted @ 6:06 AM
Chinese dancer crowned Miss Deaf World 2007
China's Bao Qingling, who superbly interpreted a tragic Chinese love story has been crowned Miss Deaf World 2007 held in Prague, the state press reported on Sunday.
Bao beat 18 other deaf girls from 18 countries that had competed in the annual pageant on Saturday.
Posted @ 6:03 AM
Just knock 3 times, then wait for the dog
A sign on the front door of Kirk and Stella Dupas' home on Lone Oak Drive tells visitors to ring the door bell twice and then knock hard three times. This will signal their dog to bark and get one of them to answer the door.
Kirk and Stella both have severe hearing loss and without the help of Simba, their 7-year-old cocker spaniel, they would continue to struggle with what most people take for granted.
Posted @ 6:02 AM
Why are some deaf people able to play instruments?
Applause exploded in Vienna's Karntnertortheater on May 7, 1824, following the premiere performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Yet the master composer himself, by then almost completely deaf, didn't know his work was well received until he turned to see the audience.
Nearly two centuries later, a hearing-impaired British solo percussionist and composer named Evelyn Glennie performs intricate, arresting rhythms on a myriad of instruments. How can Beethoven and Glennie, among the few accomplished deaf musicians, make music they cannot hear?
Posted @ 5:58 AM
More can be done to engage the deaf
In order for the deaf to participate in building a better tomorrow, we must do more and better now. We must incorporate their perspectives, their ideas, their skills and energy. Not just as beneficiaries of programmes, but also as participants in defining and carrying out such programmes. We must confront the inequalities and social issues that fuel deaf stigmas.
The stigma associated with the deaf is sometimes so harsh; some parents have hidden deaf children at home to avoid embarrassment while other people think deaf people are dumb, abnormal or mad.
Posted @ 5:54 AM
EU project gives hope to the deaf and hard of hearing
EU-funded researchers are making great inroads into understanding the genetic causes of hearing loss, paving the way for new diagnostic tools and treatments for the 10% of the EU population that suffers from a hearing impairment.
The EuroHear project partners have identified half of the known genes for deafness, and their work is already having an impact on patients with the development of diagnostic tools to identify which gene is causing the problem in a particular individual.
Posted @ 5:51 AM
July 12, 2007
New Advances in Digital Hearing Aids Can Help Baby Boomers Take Matters into Their Own Hands
Hearing aid technology has seen many changes in the past few years, and new digital hearing aids can be worn nearly invisibly while offering greater sound quality than those of the past. The members of the baby boomer generation have the savvy to take matters into their own hands when it comes to researching and purchasing these new hearing aids on the phone or online. Learn more about how today's Boomers are taking greater control of their hearing.
Posted @ 10:59 AM
July 9, 2007
Stop the Decibel Damage
If your ears were ringing during the Fourth of July fireworks, you experienced firsthand the daggerlike effect of intense sound waves on your inner ear. No surprise. Firecrackers explode with decibels so great that a sudden dose of more than a few minutes in duration could make one permanently stone-cold deaf.
This is no old wives' tale, though most of the time noise-induced loss of hearing creeps up painlessly and silently. All too many middle-agers are just finding that out as they line up for their hearing aids in search of relief from those strained conversations in crowded rooms, where everyone around them seems to be mumbling.
Posted @ 4:43 AM
Clubbers face hearing loss "timebomb"
Nine out of 10 young people show signs of hearing damage after a night spent listening to loud music at a club or pub, according to a survey.
The RNID, a charity which represents nine million people who are deaf or hard of hearing, said those affected suffer from ringing in their ears or dullness of hearing and yet do nothing to prevent it.
Audiences at rock concerts can be exposed to 125 decibels -- compared to 110 decibels for someone standing near a pneumatic drill.
Posted @ 4:42 AM
Like an earplug in a pill
TED AX knows he should wear earplugs when he leans into the noisy engine compartment of an MG sports car. He's been working among clanging metal and whirring power tools in garages for the last 15 years and has already developed tinnitus, a ringing in the ears that is one of the most common symptoms of hearing loss caused by excessive noise.
But between the need to pinpoint troubled engine sounds and listen out for the phone — and with his fingers forever covered in grease — the Denver man's earplugs go unused.
Posted @ 4:40 AM
Riverside teacher for deaf charged with lewd acts with 2 girls
An early-childhood teacher at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside has been arrested and charged with four counts of lewd and lascivious acts with two girls under age 14.
Daniel Ray Metroka, 51, of Riverside is being held on $1-million bail, the Riverside County district attorney's office said Thursday. Metroka could face 15 years in prison on four felony counts for acts that occurred June 30, prosecutors said. The alleged victims were identified as Jane Doe No. 1 and No. 2.
Posted @ 4:37 AM
Deaf filmmaker aims to show hearing, nonhearing people are on equal playing field
In a windowless back room at Santa Fe Community College, Tommy Tischler began the long process of editing 30 hours of film. The 30-year-old and a group of mentors huddled around a computer, watching footage from a football practice. In the tape, the players' silhouettes are backlit by a brilliant New Mexico sunrise.
"That's a nice shot. I really like that," professor Matthew Paige said, before a sign-language interpreter relayed the message to Tischler.
Posted @ 4:36 AM
Man Rapes Deaf Woman In Daytona Beach
A rapist attacked a woman who couldn't even scream for help. Police said the crime on the deaf victim is an outrage and investigators are relying on the public's help.
It's a crime the Daytona Beach police chief said should shock the conscience. Investigators are trying to get as much information as they could, but the victim in the case can't hear or talk. She had to write down on a notepad that someone raped her in the backyard of the house on Lewis Street.
Posted @ 4:35 AM
Deaf community to benefit from Freeview
Deaf community to benefit from Freeview functionality. Tens of thousands of hearing impaired people throughout the country stand to benefit from a Freeview approved set top box, which enables the recording of captions on either a VCR or a DVD recording device.
People can currently view captions via Teletext for many shows but are unable to record them, which prevents them from watching them later. Innovative technology within the Zinwell box, however, enables people to record both the show and captions at the same time.
Posted @ 4:33 AM
Former teacher plans history book about Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind
Although they cannot see the breathtaking view of the Blue Ridge Mountains or the 1800s Corinthian-style buildings on their campus, blind students at the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind can find the beauty of the place.
They can hear different breeds of birds chirping and the rustling of century-old oaks and maples as they walk among hills and historic buildings on the Staunton campus. And with the advent of a new historical collection, they can learn the history of the place.
Posted @ 4:32 AM
Lebanon's Hezbollah agent played deaf before confessing
A top special operations officer with Lebanon's Hezbollah militia pretended to be deaf and mute when he was captured in Iraq earlier this year, hampering efforts to obtain his identity for weeks, U.S. intelligence officials said.
Ali Mussa Daqduq, who U.S. officials say played an integral role in a January attack in Karbala that killed five Americans, allegedly was helping to train Shiite militias fighting U.S.-led coalition forces, the officials said.
Posted @ 4:31 AM
Course helps officials, deaf talk
Deaf and legally blind, Jackie Broussard weathered Hurricane Katrina alone in her house in Baton Rouge. While she had planned to ride out the storm with a friend, those arrangements fell through at the last minute.
When the electricity went off, Broussard’s connection with the outside world — e-mail —was severed. The electricity stayed off for two days.
“I was scared. I didn’t know if it was safe to go outside,” Broussard, 51, said through a sign-language interpreter Thursday at a training event designed to help first responders and the deaf community communicate effectively during an emergency.
Posted @ 4:30 AM
New provost sees change at Gallaudet
Turmoil doesn't intimidate Stephen Weiner. In April 1977, as a 22-year-old fighting for disability rights, Weiner rallied 300 silent protesters to stage a 12-hour sit-in. His activism, in part, led to a landmark federal law that requires ramps and bigger bathrooms in buildings to accommodate people with disabilities.
Seven years later, Weiner was dean of students at the Texas School for the Deaf, charged with calming angry students and parents in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal.
Posted @ 4:29 AM
Michigan Governor Granholm Signs Laws Expanding Rights of Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm signed legislation that requires the use of qualified sign language interpreters who possess state or national certification in all accommodations required under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), making the scope of Michigan's law comparable to the federal law. Approximately 1.4 million Michigan citizens are deaf or hard of hearing.
"We're ending the confusion, frustration, and errors that are so often experienced by the deaf and hard of hearing in important life situations due to misinterpreted information," said Granholm. "Equal access to accurate communication is a basic civil right of us all."
Posted @ 4:28 AM
South Africa: Mixed Response to DSTV Deaf Plan
MULTICHOICE's decision to cater for deaf people by including subtitles in its bouquet, announced last week, has received mixed reactions from deaf personalities who are concerned that its reach will be limited to the rich.
A small group of deaf and hard of hearing people, nominated by DeafSA, is testing subtitling software on the DStv personal video recorder.
Posted @ 4:28 AM
A.V. Israel helps officials hear the demands of the deaf
The time has passed when a child was doomed to living an isolated existence because he or she is hearing impaired. Digital cochlear implants, which are now in the basket of health services even for qualified adults, have brought about a revolution.
And in Israel, their successful use is the result of 13 years of hard campaigning and fieldwork by A.V. Israel, a voluntary organization founded by Elaine Matlow Tal-El - the mother of twin daughters diagnosed as profoundly deaf at the age of two - along with other interested parents and friends. Today she is an active chairman of the organization, which has facilities in Jerusalem and Ra'anana.
Posted @ 4:27 AM
Sheriff's Department Seeks Deaf Mute
The Kern County Sheriff's Department is investigating the alleged kidnapping of three children in Bakersfield by a family friend.
The children, Vanessa Iniguez, 10, Arthur Iniguez, 8, and Sylvia Iniguez, 7, were last seen Friday at about 10 a.m. with family friend Monica Salazar walking westbound on Southgate Drive toward a McDonald's.
Posted @ 4:26 AM
Fate Of Schools Rests With Lawmakers
Since last summer, advocates, parents, and students of the Oregon School of the Deaf and Oregon School of the Blind have fought yet another battle to keep the schools separate and to keep the OSB property intact. Much of the debate has centered on whether it is appropriate for the two schools to share one campus, even if the schools are segregated at that one location.
Posted @ 4:26 AM
Georgia School for the Deaf reunion brings 200 to Cave Spring
Many of the children who attend the Georgia School for the Deaf feel left out of the mainstream world, and their school experience is the first true sense of community that they find.
“They get here and learn how to exist in the mainstream world,” said GSD math teacher David A. Conti through an interpreter. “We teach them that deafness is not a handicap. It’s something that they live with and learn to live with.”
Posted @ 4:25 AM
2 Camden programs axed
Two programs for the city's special needs students will not be held this summer, leaving hundreds without educational and recreational activities.
The most significant cut is the 12-year-old Special Olympics program, where hundreds of special needs and general education students came together for four weeks of training and a culminating communitywide event.
Posted @ 4:24 AM
iPhone Accessories Revealed/Priced/Accomodating Deaf
Apple has gone live with their full line of iPhone accessories. And here they are:
Their biggie? $129 for their bluetooth headset with docking station/charger unit. The headset offers 5.5-hours of talk and 72-hours of standby, and comes with their Dual Dock charger.
Posted @ 4:23 AM