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US Deaf News: Ryan Gosling visits Deaf school!
If Deaf people didn’t already like Ryan Gosling enough (based on the fact that the whole world seems to quiver at the knees when the guy appears on screen), the actor went up a few more notches in our books marked ‘Hearing people we quite like’ when he visited a charity event at Texas School […]
US Deaf News: Deaf school disqualified from hosting Taylor Swift concert
October 2, 2012
Gawker has reported that Horace Mann School for the Deaf, which was targeted by internet pranksters who thought it’d be funny to encourage thousands of people to vote for the singer Taylor Swift to perform a concert there, has been disqualified from the competition. The school didn’t leave empty-handed, but after the school’s principal gave […]
US Deaf News: ‘Sign language that African Americans use is different to that of whites’
September 19, 2012
Most BSL users in the UK are aware of the regional variations that mean there are often very different signs for certain words in different areas of the country. What we’re less aware of is how different signs may be used in some parts of the world due to ethnic and cultural differences. Now, a […]
US Deaf News: Suicidal US deaf prisoner “drew a picture of himself crying”
September 18, 2012
The Denver Post has reported that the city has agreed to pay nearly $700,000 to settle a lawsuit after a deaf man committed suicide in a city jail in 2005. Shawn Francisco Vigil had been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and was jailed for one month. The family’s lawsuit alleged that the city ‘did […]
US Deaf News: Three-year-old banned from signing his name
August 29, 2012
A huge row is underway across the Atlantic after a Deaf pre-schooler was banned from using his sign name because his school said it violated their anti-weapons policy. In a story that echoes last year’s row here in the UK about a ‘rude’ sign in a nursery rhyme, Hunter Spanjer, from Grand Island, Nebraska has […]
US Deaf News: Hard of hearing man arrested after asking prostitute to speak up
August 22, 2012
In one of the more bizarre stories featuring a deaf person that we here at Limping Chicken have ever, er, heard, NBC Connecticut has reported how an American hard of hearing man was arrested after asking a prostitute to speak up during a negotiation. According to the website, Michael Carrier, 45, was arrested on the […]
US Deaf News: Deaf man called a “f****** deafie” by airport security
July 10, 2012
The website Boing Boing has reported how a Deaf American man has written on his blog that was called a “f***** deafie” by an airport security officer, before having his sweets taken away and eaten in front of him. The man, who blogs as TeaAndTheatre, was going through the Louisville, Kentucky airport following a National […]
Deaf News: Access to Work extended to work placements
July 10, 2012
In today’s difficult economic times, work placements and internships are increasingly seen as a key way for people to get their foot in the door on their way to beginning their chosen career. However, until now, funding to make these placements accessible for deaf and disabled workers hasn’t been available. So the fact that last […]
US Deaf News: Deaf man becomes firefighter!
June 22, 2012
In West Haven, Connecticut, a Deaf man has achieved his dream by passing the firefighter training test. Joe Cronin wanted to be a firefighter since he was a child. An ASL user, Cronin will lipread and use hand signals to do his job. Fox News reported Cronin as saying “They’ve accepted me for who I […]
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