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View Post: School for Deaf in Tibet
3 Dec 2009
The news site China Tibet Online has a brief photo-illustrated article about a school that educates deaf students in Lhasa, capital of the Chinese Tibet Autonomous Region. This school is the Special Education School in Lhasa. ...
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View Post: Researchers create cell phones for sign language
13 hours ago by Steve  
For those who are deaf or hard of hearing, cell phone use has largely been limited to text messaging. But technology is catching up: Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in ...
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View Post: Deafness gene identified
10 Nov 2009 by NHS Choices  
Researchers have identified a gene that causes deafness in the elderly, The Daily Telegraph reported. It said that about four in 10 people experience a reduction in their hearing ability as they age as a result of gradually losing hair ...
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View Post: Deafness doesn't stop AK cheerleader from cheering - KTVF-TV ...
27 Nov 2009
Like any good cheerleader, UAA's Michaela Brewer has a fine sense of rhythm, tempo and timing, dancing effortlessly to the beat of whatever hip-hop music bumps through the arena. But unlike her teammates, Brewer has never once heard a ...
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View Post: 3 People, 3 Laptops, A Dinner Table, The Lounge Room, & Facebook!
5 hours ago by Tony  
It insinuates that I am the one who is Deaf, I am also the one responsible for creating awareness about my deafness. That is true up to a point. When you are continually butting heads, is it any surprise that Deaf people make the ...
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View Post: Library Grape: Health Insurance Denials May Lead to Permanent ...
19 Nov 2009 by noreply@blogger.com (Metavirus)  
In no other developed country would a girl be on “the verge of never hearing again” because a for-profit insurance company decided that its bottom line was more important than keeping a child from going deaf. Labels: Evil, Health Care, ...
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View Post: The Rebuttal » Blog Archive » Listen – We Have Something To Say!
3 Dec 2009 by gazza  
And believe it or not, some of our leaders within deafness sector are actually angry that consumers are so violently opposed to accepting the exemption and the fact that the community is dismissive of the minimal gains that have been ...
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View Post: Deafinitely Girly: Blaming my ditziness on my deafness
18 Nov 2009 by Me  
Blaming my ditziness on my deafness. Recently I've noticed I've been doing more ditzy things than deaf things… It's been quite funny as it's making me forget that it's usually my deafness that gets me into cringeworthy situation. ...
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