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Many people have the misconception that deaf people “hear” by feeling vibrations through the floor. How is this possible, especially if a person is moving and jumping so that they do not keep in ...
The NAD has always and continues to support and endorse innovative educational programming for deaf children, implanted or not. Such programming should actively support the auditory and speech skills ...
Linguists, who had previously ignored the sign languages of the world, began to demonstrate that they were natural languages equally capable of communicating abstract thought, emotion, and complex ...
Dorothy Chiyoko Sueoka Casterline, ’58 & H-’22, passed away on August 8, 2023. She was 95 years old. Along with the late Carl Croneberg, ’55, Dot, as she was known, conducted much of the painstaking ...
For over two decades, people have asked when Deaf Way III will take place. Many of them remember fondly the Deaf Way International Conference on Deaf Culture in July 1989 and the Deaf Way II ...
For decades, telephones were a technology and a convenience that separated deaf people from the rest of society. On the job, for example, many deaf people were denied promotions when positions ...
Graduate students from the Gallaudet Master of Arts in Accessible Human-Centered Computing (AHCC) and the Master of Arts in Interpreting programs, as well as undergraduate students, are presenting ...
The Gallaudet University Athletics Department has announced the schedules for all fall sports, including women’s triathlon, one of three new offerings this year along with STUNT and men’s volleyball.
To explain his research, Dr. Octavian Robinson, ’02 & G-’04, signs ‘Crip’ as in the world being thrown upside down. The associate professor of Deaf Studies and his collaborator, the late Dr. Jon ...
In 2019, Dr. Brendan Stern, ’06, Assistant Professor of Government in the School of Civic Leadership, Business, and Social Change, stood in front of his new General Studies debate class and wrote on ...
Alumnus Bader Alomary, ’11 & G-’12, a citizen of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who now resides in Austin, Texas, received the prestigious King Khalid Award last month from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin ...
Our beautiful, inclusive sign language economy is here, its contributions – benefitting all of society – are undeniable. Each year on September 23rd, the world celebrates the International Day of Sign ...