Amid all the drama that 2020 has brought us, I wanted to pause for a moment and remember two of our own. Earlier this year we lost PDG Bill Walters, and just this month our former president, Hall Stearns, passed away. For many of us, the loss is personal: both Hal and Bill were wonderful human...
A composer with hearing loss thinks so. Gabriela Lena Frank, a composer and pianist and the founder of the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, was born with high-moderate/near-profound hearing loss. In an interview with Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim in The New York Times, she described...
“It’s the best feeling ever.” The Texas School for the Deaf is celebrating a historic win by their football team, Fox 7 Austin reports. The team took home its first state title Friday night after winning 63-32 against Veritas Academy of Austin. “I’d have to say, it’s the best feeling ever....
Mucormycosis has a 50% mortality rate and affects eyesight. The fight for survival has become tougher for coronavirus patients in Ahmedabad, the Times of India reports. . Doctors are reporting an alarming incidence of mucormycosis — a rare and serious fungal infection with 50% mortality rate —...
A small ray of sunshine. Some days I look at the calendar and think, “How is it already December?” Other days I think, “Will this year ever end?” Well, no matter what I think, it’s happening. The holidays are upon us. And it’s always a happy time for LSH, since...
Lack of access to important COVID-19 information has led to stress and isolation. The deaf and hard of hearing community continues to face barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fox News Atlanta reports.. The president of the Georgia Center of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing told Fox News that a lack...
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Don’t you just hate it when you go out to move the old car because it’s street-cleaning day, and there’s this little white card stuck in the driver’s side window saying WE BUY JUNK CARS? “It’s not junk,” you mutter angrily. I get it. It really isn’t...
‘Sound of Metal’ follows a drummer whose life is thrown into free fall when he begins to go deaf. In the Amazon Studios’ new film, Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is a former heroin addict and the drummer in a punk-metal band. The movie, which begins streaming tomorrow, tells Ruben’s...
The roar of traffic provides clues — often the only ones — about when it is safe to venture into a crosswalk. For visually impaired pedestrians, navigating chaotic city sidewalks and crosswalks was dicey enough before the pandemic. But the COVID- 19 outbreak has made crossing the city’s...