Welcome to DeafPeople.com
This site celebrates the achievements of deaf people in history, and those who are still active in their careers. Each month, we’ll highlight a contemporary newsmaker.
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Deaf People in History
This page commemorates deaf people whose accomplishments are part of our history. (Living achievers are profiled on the “Deaf People in Action” page.
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List of deaf people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Information in this article or section has not been verified against sources and may not be reliable. Please check for inaccuracies and modify as needed, citing the sources against which it was ...
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Category:Deaf people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Deaf Chat | People Deaf Culture - AllDeaf.com
Free discussion forum for the public. Categories include deaf life and issues, as well as general topics.
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Deaf, Deaf people, Deaf Single, ASL, Deaf Chat, Deaf culture, Deaf ...
The best and largest dating for deaf singles and friends. ASL, sign language, hearing impaired ... Welcome to the first and largest place in the world for meeting deaf, ASL and hearing-impaired ...
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Deaf people including famous deaf people
Deaf people, including famous deaf people, multicultural, deaf women, gay and lesbian, and senior citizens.
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Deaf Missions: Our Ministries
Our Ministries. Why a mission to Deaf people? Because deafness is more than just a loss of hearing. Deaf people belong to a distinct cultural group with unique customs and ways of communicating.
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Under Construction
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Famous and Historic Deaf (and Hearing) People
Articles on well-known figures in the deaf/hard of hearing community both contemporary and past. ... Info Famous or Historic Deaf People Before You Get Hearing ...
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People - James "Deaf" Burke
A deaf british boxer, a champion who died penniless. ... Language Info Famous or Historic Deaf People Before You Get Hearing Aids ...
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List of deaf people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... finally endorsing the use of the natural signed languages made by Deaf people. ... joined by many people on this list who, like them, were born deaf, used a sign ...
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A Primer
... guide for hearing people who want to communicate with deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. ... Most deaf people use sign language and fingerspelling. ...
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Deaf culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... bridge the gap between deaf and hearing people through social, cultural and ... accredited by the Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People. ...
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Deaf People of Color
The First National Deaf People of Color Conference was a triumphant success. This site contains information and updates on future Conference plans. Conference ...
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Royal Association for Deaf People
Committed to meeting the individual needs of people affected by deafness.
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Deaf Identity
Which is ... Deaf people often feel a cultural bond with one another based on sharing a ... by many hearing people, but within the Deaf community, it is an ...
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2 hearing + 2 Codas + 1 Deaf guy =
As a new business owner, research shows that hearing people spend at least 20 minutes on the phone when they should be working. Are Deaf people more productive at work? Obviously, there are a million different characteristics and traits ...
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Exploring How Deaf People 'Hear' Voice-Hallucinations
A new UCL study, published in the July 2007 issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, systematically explores the perceptual characteristics of voice hallucinations in deaf people with schizophrenia for the first time. ...
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Petition - legislation to include deaf people in general fire and ...
Click on the LINK to sign the petition to create legislation by statute to include deaf people in the general regulations concerning the fire and emergency alarm systems in all public, commercial and industrial buildings in Britain. ...
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When Deaf People Choose Hillary Clinton
Yet still, from many people perspective there seems like a good number of Deaf people who do not like Foxnews which is owned by News Corp. A company that Hillary Clinton invested a great deal of money over the years and hobnobbed along ...
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Article: Deaf people affected by HIV/AIDS at higher rates than the ...
The ASL news was heartening and inclusive but it failed to drive home the more serious message – that deaf people are affected by HIV/AIDS at higher rates than hearing people. Statistics are slim but some activists estimate deaf people ...
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Censorship: How it hurts Deaf people
For Deaf Chinese, censorship might block them from web sites that could help them work together with Deaf leaders across their country and around the world to improve the living conditions of Deaf people in China. ...
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Yes, Deaf People CAN Walk on Fire!!!
Deaf People Can Do Anything…Even Walk on Fire! What the Bleep About Firewalking? A Magickal Evening. For more information, or to set up a empowerment training/firewalking workshop for your group, contact Ocean at oceanwitch@insightbb. ...
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MM's BLOGALOG - Not Again !
It would appear, there is a select Little band of dedicated deaf people, whose sole purpose in life, is to boldly seek out ANY suggestion, CI’s are lethal and bad for deaf people, as we read here, we are assailed with yet another ...
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‘07 Ozzfest hits Yuba-Sutter
Ozzfest erupts today and I’m wondering if any local Deaf folks are going to the concert. I’d like to hear what you thought of your experience today at the Ozzfest, or from other Deaf people that went to a Ozzfest tour in their town. ...
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NAD DIVORCED ASL.. AND DEAF PEOPLE/ Dr. L. SIMMS
National Association of the Deaf (NAD) divorced ASL... and Deaf people. The Leadership at NAD needs to make a big change in its philosophy. Some recent presidents of NAD "abused" the title that gave them the appearance of responsibility ...
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Why Deaf People Shouldn’t Live in Certain Parts of Houston,TX Part 2
I hope that you can/will assist us in stopping the mistreatment of deaf people by various local law enforcement officers/agencies. It has been brought to our attention that many deaf citizens experience similar ...
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Butterfly, like me....Deaf - Follow up with two subjects ...
Hi, After submitting those two articles to Deafread.com: brotherhood and sisterhood from Gally and mild Deaf people over profound Deaf people, I learned a great deal from this. I hope you, too, learned something from this. ...
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Getting Deaf People Interested in Earth Science
NASA has always been a big proponent on helping deaf and hard of hearing students get interested in Earth Science. They go out of their way to help teachers and students from elementary schools to colleges such as Gallaudet University ...
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Comment by wow on The Uneducating of America
If pre-Milan deaf people were newspaper and magazine editors and were taught some combination of ASL/English, then why is it that today, the majority of deaf students graduating from deaf residential schools have 3rd, 4th and 5th grade ...
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Comment by Wow on The Uneducating of America
Deaf people were sent there because no one else knew how to or wanted to deal with "them." Ironically, attendance at Deaf residential schools declined heavily in favor of mainstreaming in the 1970's, right when you are talking about ...
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New IPTV service for deaf people
"My original motivation for creating VeeSee was seeing so many talented and gifted deaf people encounter barriers in showing what they were capable of," said Grant. "These barriers exist purely because of communication issues - I also ...
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Probing Question: Why are some deaf people able to play instruments?
The answer lies in ways of "hearing" and experiencing music well beyond the auditory system, says Michael Broyles.
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Bilingual for all Deaf Children - A First Language: Whose Choice ...
To teach a child verblly communication starts at the age around 18 to 24 months while a baby can learn signs as early as 4 to 6 months. Some people or organizations claim that some studies prove that bilingual methods degrades a deaf ...
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The Uneducating of America
Welcome to the world of deaf people and American Sign Language (ASL). During the early part of the 20th century, many schools of deaf children initially demanded that no mechanical (or manual) signing systems were to be used, ...
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Where are the Deaf people hiding? Part 2
A few posts ago, I talked about not meeting any Deaf people since I moved here 2 years ago. Just 20 minutes away is the State's Deaf school and I thought the small town would be bursting with Deaf people walking around, not so. ...
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Where are the Deaf people hiding?
I live within 25 miles of the State's School for the Deaf and Blind, and you'd think that the place would be crawling with Deaf people. Not so. Since I moved here 2 years ago, I have seen only a small handful of Deaf people. ...
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SignWales launches videophone
SignWales, a Cardiff-based social enterprise set up by the Deaf Association of Wales and Deaf Studies Trust, has developed a 'videophone' to help deaf people communicate with people in the hearing community. ...
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Comment by Michael J. West on The Uneducating of America
You state that: (a) less than 10% of all deaf people use ASL exclusively. That claim, which again has no source (it's really not that hard to put a link in there), actually damages your overall claim that the deaf culture's emphasis on ...
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The Orange Deafie Blog - Major Misdiagnosis! - Deaf People Trapped ...
But, poor diagnosis, miscommunication and misguided treatment programmes have resulted in the gross over-representation of deaf people in mental hospitals"This is the result of a study by Timmermans in 1989 in which identified that ...
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Working with deaf people who have committed sexual offences ...
Little research is available on the assessment and treatment of deaf people who commit sexual offences. Most studies provide statistical information on offenders or medical discussion on the causes of violence among deaf people. ...
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People DO read this!
Needless to say, it’s tough to bring more Deaf people with us during the summertime when nearly everyone is out and zooming around to this country and that city So far, it’s been fun- we’ve gone to the Smithsonian Folklife festival on ...
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Deaf Terrorists…
Do we support the students because this is a deaf/hearing fight and the only sensible thing to do here is to support your respective disability? What about Deaf people attacking hearing people because of the hearing people’s ignornace ...
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SNES - SSI for deaf people?
Me and several of my friends in a chat room were discussing about SSI, and how deaf people gets them. First, for you all who do not know what SSI means/stands for, it stands for Supplemental Security Income. ...
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Roll titles for deaf people in Murmansk
Murmansk regional government allocates 1 million 700 rubles for establishing on TV Murman the roll titles and audiologist translation for deaf. Disable people have been struggling for this over many years.
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Comment by Wow on The Uneducating of America
Three times now you have ignored two societies where Deaf people have been most successful, modern day Sweeden and Martha's Vineyard in the 1600, 1700, and 1800's...places where they use/used a sign language different from it's spoken ...
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Accomodating the Deaf
But when hearing and deaf members meet in the fellowship of the gospel, the reverse must often be true; deaf people cannot learn to hear, but hearing people can learn to sign.” We really need to start a Sign Language class. ...
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Comment by Interesting on The Uneducating of America
So, although you are talking about deaf kids English being ruined by Deaf culture and Deaf school, very few deaf people are acutally affected by this. Also, in Deaf residential schools nation-wide, only about 10% of the staff are d/Deaf ...
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Deaf people, an awareness.
Deaf people can read lips: One of my first misconceptions was that all deaf people could read lips. I don't know where this came from but somewhere my education has failed me for real life experiences. Not all deaf people can read lips. ...
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Assistive Technology for Hearing Impaired Students
Closed captioning is the text that goes on the bottom of the television screen to inform deaf people of what is being said. Look for a small box with letters ‘CC’ inside or a small box with a cartoon balloon dialogue marker, ...
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Do Deaf Stalkers Exist?
All this made me realize that there are very little discussions about Deaf stalkers. I believe now is a good time to address this reality about Deaf stalkers who go after Deaf people, and perhaps in rare cases go after hearing people ...
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Comment by Paotie on The Uneducating of America
Additionally, you seem to adopt the view that the majority of culturally deaf people are stone-deaf and have never heard a single sound. As anyone knows, deaf people who are pathologically deaf tend to have residual hearing, ...
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Butterfly, like me....Deaf - Hard of Hearing people get advantage ...
Hard of Hearing people do get advantage over Deaf people, based on my experiences. For here, hard of hearing people, even though they are native ASL users, they get better treatment with the hearing people. The main reason is HoH people ...
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Comment by Paotie on The Uneducating of America
The $420 was based on a comment an interpreter made in a MySpace group in the vein that the interpreter shortage had created difficulties for deaf people in finding interpreters, especially for schools. ...
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Deaf Judges
The one thing that really galls me is seeing a Deaf person tell other Deaf people that they cannot become judges claiming that hearing peers will prevent them from becoming one. Especially more galling would be to see those comments ...
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Who Do You Think You're Calling Retarded?
People who use wheelchairs say they are going for a walk, blind people say they saw that article in the paper today, And deaf people say that they heard about your new job. They know they have a disability. They would prefer you don't ...
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Pickled Relish - Are Deaf people ’peculiar’ looking??
... and on the way down, we stopped in Fremont for some gas. I got out of the car to strech..t’was a long drive! I noticed a person leaving the gas station store. We made eye contact and some inner feeling told me that he was deaf. I [...]
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“Deafhood” Churches?
Notice how the author of that posting mention that the Deaf people ought to worship their Deaf ancestors asking them for guidance and wisdom. And ask them for their blessings on our Deaf conferences. And how we ought to sit/stand around ...
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Deaf-Genocide-Hearing
“ASL has struggled for survival and evolved into its present form, despite hearing efforts to eradicate it” (A Journey in the Deaf-World 43). I am not arguing the facts. Some hearing people tried to stop some deaf people from using ...
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Help Foreign Deaf People
There are many ways to assist deaf people in developing countries, either by making financial contributions or volunteering as a teacher, audiologist, or speech therapist.
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Name-Dropping
One way to accomplish this is to find the appropriate moment to explain a little about your “background” and then mention the names of some well-known Deaf people with whom you have had connections.” ...
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Who Should Know About Coda/Koda?
Deaf people and parents also need to realize that Coda/Koda is a separate culture. I will never tell anyone how to parent. But the one thing I want to share is; a hearing child born to Deaf parents is not “normal”, or the same as the ...
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Unit 1 Lesson 4
I did not know until I started reading Unit 4 that this guide was written specifically to learn how to teach the Gospel to deaf people. We will make a few adjustments so that it is tailored to Steve, and add the LDS Dictionary of Sign ...
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Is Deafhood a Failure? NO!
The main reason why many deaf people have weak English skills stems from the fact that most lack their sense of hearing to be able to ‘hear’ the appropriate sounds and grammar context. In addition, the deaf education and their families ...
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Major Misdiagnosis! - Deaf People Trapped In The Mental Health Gulag
But, poor diagnosis, miscommunication and misguided treatment programmes have resulted in the gross over-representation of deaf people in mental hospitals" This is the result of a study by Timmermans in 1989 in which identified that ...
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Technology gives right signs for deaf people (icWales)
A WELSH not-for-profit company has developed technology to help deaf people communicate with people in the hearing community.
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Hall wins U.S. Deaf Championship (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Touring pro Kevin Hall, who played his high school golf at Winton Woods, won the U.S. Deaf Golf Championship by 25 strokes Friday.
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Eileen Baker: An Advocate for the Deaf (Guilford Courier)
What do Beethoven, Helen Keller, and Eileen Baker's parents all have in common? They were all deaf. While Eileen herself is not hearing impaired, she is a teacher and advocate for those who are, consulting on deafness and hearing-related issues throughout the U.S.
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Deaf seminarian has visual sense of religion (Boston Globe)
While on retreat at his California seminary, Shawn Carey found himself in a bind when the leader turned on some music. "Please focus on the music," the leader instructed, "and think about what words in the music impact you."
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Georgia relay makes life easier for hearing impaired (Henry Daily Herald)
Before Georgia Relay became available throughout the state, people who were deaf or hard of hearing would have to rely on other people to make their phone calls for them, according to Beth Slough, contract manager for Hamilton Relay, the Nebraska-based company, currently under contract to provide relay services to Clayton County, Henry County, and the entire state of Georgia.
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Loud music affects hearing of nine out of 10 young people (The New Zealand Herald)
Nine out of 10 young people show signs of hearing damage after a night spent listening to loud music at a club or pub, a British survey shows.
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Expo features new technology for people with disabilities (WTSP - Tampa Bay's 10 News)
Exhibits included alarm clocks and baby monitors
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Belmar accused of rights violation (Asbury Park Press)
A civil rights lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Trenton last week is poised to challenge how the borough keeps people quiet with its controversial noise ordinance.
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ASK AMY (Washington Post)
Dear Amy: There is a manager in my division, and when discussion begins in meetings, she shoots questions at the person who has the floor before he or she is done speaking and summarizing. She talks over people and does not stop.
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