Gemina Rose says her daughter has been counting down the days until they move into their new home, Canada’s Global News reports. The home will feature special modifications for her daughter Jancis, who is deaf. Gemina, a single mother and health care aide, was lending a hand in the Habitat...
Becca Meyers, a swimmer who was seen as a favorite to bring gold home from Tokyo, has canceled plans for the Paralympics after being told she can’t bring a personal care assistant to Japan, National Public Radio reports. Meyers is deaf and blind, but U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee...
Father Min Seo Park, one of fewer than two dozen deaf priests worldwide, thinks deafness is hardly a disability, the Catholic Herald reports. He is working to help others realize that as well. As the new chaplain of St. Francis of Assisi Deaf Catholic Church in Landover Hills, Md., Father Park is...
Daniel Lundberg, a Deaf chemistry professor at Gallaudet University, estimates that about 80% of chemistry terms have no established sign in American Sign Language, Chemical & Engineering News reports. When there isn’t a sign for it, people sometimes spell out the word using the signs for its...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against Honolulu-based Opportunities and Resources, Inc. and ORI Anuenue Hale, Inc., a work placement agency for individuals with disabilities, HR Dive reports. The EEOC alleges that the organization violated the Americans with...
Audiology isn’t Sarah Sparks’s first career, Healthy Hearing reports. But her previous one “did not feel to me as though it was my permanent calling in life,” she told interviewer Medeleine Burry. She spent some time soul searching for more fulfilling work — and that led her to audiology. “I...
Roy Trafalski, Founder and Executive Director of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Educational Athletic Foundation (DHHEAF), will be speaking to the Long Beach/Lakewood Chapter of Hearing Loss Association of America virtual Zoom meeting, on Thursday, July 8, 2021 at 6:30 p.m., the Orange County Breeze...
A deaf campaigner is taking legal action against the government, complaining that it failed to provide in-person British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters at Covid briefings, BBC News reports. Katherine Rowley, 36, from Leeds, says the government breached its obligations under the Equality Act to...
Last week the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors launched a pilot program at Torrance Beach to alert deaf swimmers in emergencies, the Los Angeles Times reports. County officials equipped two buildings and lifeguard towers with the Beach Emergency Evacuation Lights System...
If you’re feeling a little unsteady on your feet, it’s not just in your head. It might actually be in your ears, Keck Medicine of USC reports. Dizziness after a boat trip, an amusement park ride or spinning in a circle are common experiences. But if you feel like you’ve just gotten off a roller...
An elderly sheepdog in the UK who could no longer work after becoming deaf can now continue rounding up flocks after her new owners taught her sign language, Wales Online reports. After Peggy became deaf, her handler could no longer communicate with her, and she was handed over to the RSPCA. But...
More than 90 per cent of deaf children are born to hearing parents, who often have no prior knowledge of the complex world they’ve been thrust into, SBS News reports. Natasha and Marc Kenney’s first daughter Amelie was born deaf, and their first reaction was shock. “It’s like being in a newborn...
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