TORONTO, June 10, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Missed medical appointments, missing hearing aids, and all manner of services for Deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing Ontarians missing in action: that is the ...
The fatal police shooting of a deaf man in Oklahoma City has sparked outrage nationwide, particularly among disability rights advocates who say his death could have been prevented. The man, Magdiel ...
A new report warns Deaf women experiencing domestic abuse in Scotland remain "effectively invisible" due to the chronic ...
MOORHEAD – When Jerry Geist was growing up in Devils Lake, N.D., his mom would make phone calls on his behalf. "That was kind of awkward," he said recently through a sign-language interpreter. His mom ...
For years, deaf Bay Staters weren’t able to serve on a jury, a constitutional duty that many of us take for granted — or even brush aside as an inconvenience. But that’s all about to change. Eligible ...
If a hearing impairment has kept you from attending church, the New Port Richey Baptist Deaf Church urges you to try its services. Last Sunday the church celebrated Founder's Day in recognition of its ...
A screen door is all that is left of a burned home across the street from Loma Alta Park, which is in the middle of the burn zone from the Eaton fire. Residents are pushing back against a call for ...
Until a few months ago, one quick phone call meant a slow, cumbersome process for Fred Pickering. As a deaf technology specialist at the Library of Congress, he couldn’t just pick up the phone and ask ...
ASL Now, powered by Connect Direct, has launched its new ASL Now app today, the first-of-its-kind, free mobile app that connects American Sign Language (ASL) users with trained customer service agents ...
Members of Congress are joining with the deaf community to bring more deaf interns and staffers to Capitol Hill. In February, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, ...
If you've ever watched a YouTube video with auto-generated closed captioning, you know the garbled result is giggle-worthy. But it's actually a major problem. Inadequate closed captioning is failing ...
At 12:01 a.m. on July 26, 1993, the nation’s deaf and hard-of-hearing population will have something it has long been denied: equal access to telephone service. At least in theory. The date marks the ...