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Evans woman helps train search and rescue dogs including her own named Toss (Greeley Tribune)
In Robin Anderson's Evans home, every pet has a purpose. Her soft-hearted husband, Drew, picked the 3-year-old border collie. Mi is deaf and has hip dysplasia, but he's also got a wonderful personality, and so his job is to be the family dog. He's the one who chases tennis balls and exuberantly greets strangers and learns all sorts of bad habits from the three children. There are two cats, and ...
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Students trying to save sign (FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville)
PONTE VEDRA, Fla. -- American Sign Language and French classes will be phased out of Ponte Vedra High School.
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Sorenson Video Center App Now Available on App Store (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SALT LAKE CITY----Sorenson Communications, the leading provider of Video Relay Service for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use sign language to communicate, today announced its Video Center App is now available on the App Store.
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Bus, train users fume at MTA (New York Post)
Hundreds of testy Queens straphangers vented their anger at MTA officials for nearly six hours in Flushing last week, using words like “outrage,” “shame” and “disaster” in denouncing a plan to severely cut service on subways and buses.Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Jay Walder said after another one of the...
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Students protest cancellation of American Sign Language classes at Ponte Vedra High (The Florida Times-Union)
Ponte Vedra High School junior Morgan McMahon dreams of a career as an interpreter for deaf people.
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2010 Interpreter Education Program Award of Excellence Announced by Sorenson Communications (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SALT LAKE CITY----Sorenson Communications®, the nation's leading provider of Video Relay Service for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use sign language to communicate, today announced that submissions are now being accepted for the 2010 SVRS® Interpreter Education Program Award of Excellence.
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140th anniversary for W.Va. deaf, blind school (Charleston Daily Mail)
ROMNEY, W.Va. -- With the 140th anniversary of the creation of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind coming up, one instructor says its mind-boggling to think about the changes shes seen on campus just in her lifetime. Mary Ennis Kesler, 30...
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4 Admit Scamming Federal Program For Deaf (WCBS-TV New York)
Four former owners and employees of three companies have pleaded guilty to defrauding a federal program that assists the deaf. Each pleaded guilty in federal court in Trenton to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Kim Hawkins, owner of Nevada-based Master Communications and Arizona-based KL Communications; Hawkins' business partner, Larry Berke; Alfia Iskandarova, a former interpreter for New York ...
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Dementia Study Launched Within The Deaf Community (Medical News Today)
Researchers have launched a unique project to improve early diagnosis and management of dementia among Deaf people who use British Sign Language (BSL). The research, funded by Alzheimer's Society, will examine how to identify dementia in Deaf people and explore how they might best cope with their condition. The study will also investigate how to provide support services for the Deaf community ...
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Interpreter restored for deaf student (The Peterborough Examiner)
A Peterborough mother struggling to get the local Catholic school board to assign a sign language interpreter to her five-year- old son had some success after a story ran inThe Examiner last month.[...]
