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Feds try to eliminate housing for the deaf -- at complex built for hearing ... - Fox News

http://news.google.com Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:44:26 GMT

Feds try to eliminate housing for the deaf -- at complex built for hearing ...Fox NewsA 2005 federal study found that the U.S. had virtually no affordable housing for the deaf. So the federal government helped build Apache ASL Trails, a 75-unit apart ...

5 myths about being deaf - Chicago Tribune (blog)

http://news.google.com Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:11:51 GMT

5 myths about being deafChicago Tribune (blog)LeBlanc fell short of the win, but by making it all the way to the final four, he helped educate the viewing and hearing public about being deaf. 'A lot of people have never been around a deaf person, ...

RIVERSIDE: Many deaf school students weren't raised with sign language - Press-Enterprise

http://news.google.com Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:54:34 GMT

Press-EnterpriseRIVERSIDE: Many deaf school students weren't raised with sign languagePress-EnterpriseAlthough she was born deaf, the language foundation 11th-grader Karina Baker got as a baby using American Sign Language with her deaf father helped ...

Kindness is a language...

This is an interesting quotation attributed to Mark twain and examined by quote investigator.

Kindness is a Language which the Deaf Can Hear and the Blind ...

http://quoteinvestigator.com Sun, 27 Oct 2013 03:41:09 GMT

Kindness is a language which the deaf and the blind can read. I thought this ascription was implausible, and the remark was odd. A deaf person can read standard text, and a blind person can read Braille. Would you examine ...

Deaf Family Finds Themselves Torn Between Deaf and Hearing Worlds (Part 1)

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Deaf Dating Advice: Kinect and sign language translation

Deaf Dating Advice: Kinect and sign language translation: http://www.youtube.com/v/HnkQyUo3134?autohide=1&version=3&feature=share&autohide=1&attribution_tag=6Jbb0eWN7JV7LI2e1UzUEQ&am...

Deaf News

Sign language translator uses Kinect as a bridge between the deaf ...
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http://blogs.technet.com Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:00:00 GMT
As you can see from the video, Dandan Yin, a Chinese 22-year-old computer science student born deaf, shows how this works by gesturing to a Kinect device connected to a sign language prototype – and words appear on ...
Education Week: Technology helps deaf students read to youth
http://www.edweek.org Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:10:00 GMT
DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Taking off their student hats and putting on their teaching hats, high school students from the Kentucky School for the Deaf became 'Reading Buddies' to area elementary students in Danville.

Why deaf dating matters

Let me bring in a bit of personal history here.  When I was a youngster an older cousin of mine  had a baby who it turned out was born profoundly deaf.  They didn't realise anything was untoward for quite a while.  In fact the family just assumed he was a good sleeper since ambient noise did not seem to wake him.  I remember the shock my cousin and his wife had when they realised that he was deaf.

This was back in the late 1950's and the world was very different from the way it is now and any sort of disability was more of a challenge than we can imagine today.  The years passed and I saw very little of that side of my family but I heard that the baby had grown into a young man doing well in his studies.  The next time I saw him was at his engagement party and he was a handsome young man with a very beautiful partner who was also deaf  I was impressed with how well he could speak and of course his lip reading was perfect.  They made a charming couple, obviously happy together and their disability something they dealt with very elegantly.  The last I heard was that they married and had a baby who was also born deaf.  This experience made me aware of the ongoing needs of the deaf community and how best for deaf single men and women to meet and find happiness together.

It was with this in mind that I created a website www.disabilitymatch.co.ukwww.disabilitymatch.co.uk which is designed to help many different groups of disabled singles to find romance - deaf dating is an integral part of that process.   This blog will focus on the deaf community and their specific dating needs and I hope to write regularly on this subject.