At Perkins School for the Blind, new building reflects new vision Oct 18, 2009
In the world of education, the Perkins School for the Blind has an elite roster of graduates, including Helen Keller, her miracle worker Anne Sullivan, and Laura Bridgman, the world s first deaf and blind person to learn language ... In 1839, Perkins became the first school in the world to teach language to a deaf and blind child, Laura Bridgman. (Boston Globe)
Running bravely (6) Sep 30, 2009
Since she started school, Airam has had an aid from the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind by her side while in school and often out in the community. She takes Airam into town, and shows her how to get around stores, how to get from house to house, how to interact in the city, Joyner said. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Retinal Implant Could Help Restore Some Vision Sep 24, 2009
24, 2009) Inspired by the success of cochlear implants that can restore hearing to some deaf people, researchers at MIT are working on a retinal implant that could one day help blind people regain a useful level of vision. See also. (Science Daily)
Jazzie leads the way (78) Sep 8, 2009
With blind people in general, were not deaf, Reed said, do you dont need to come up to my face and say - Reed raised her voice to a loud, dramatic volume, Hi, how are you. Do you need any help. (Boerne Star, TX)
50 years later Jul 26, 2009
" Later, Hagmeier earned a Master of Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling and Doctorate of Educational Psychology from the University of Washington as well as worked as a prevocational specialist for the Northwest Regional Center for Deaf Blind Children and as a ___ at the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in Anchorage (1978-84). He also trained for four weeks at Seeing Eye Inc., a training facility for seeing eye dogs in Morristown, N.J. Hagmeier and his wife, Christy - a deaf student he... (Juneau Empire)
John 9: Jesus Heals the Blind Man Jul 15, 2009
8-9) They didn t ask the man himself, instead talking amongst themselves as if this once blind man was deaf as well. Which, incidentally, did not stop him from answering their question. (Suite101.com)
The Deafening Muslim Silence About Xinjiang Jul 14, 2009
Today that same Muslim world seems to be mute, deaf, and blind, and is oblivious to the violence and discrimination suffered by the Uighurs, a Muslim minority group, at the hands of the Chinese government ... In politics, blindness and deafness are often induced by an acute awareness of where one's main interests really lie. (Slate)
Legally blind, Hingham's Minkara soars at Wellesley Jun 25, 2009
I hope disabled students around country can realize you can make it even though you might be blind, or deaf, or whatever. The daughter of Lebanese immigrants Fida El-Jamal and Samer Minkara of Hingham, Minkara spoke Arabic before learning English. (Hingham Journal, MA)
Horse therapy helps area kids May 22, 2009
The 21-year-old bay Quarter Horse/Morgan cross gelding is a beloved favorite among students, especially with 16-year-old Lillie Baum, who is deaf. When asked what she loved about riding at TRACC, Lillie who is very good at reading lips responds with a bright smile on her face that she loved riding Timmy the most because he is her horse. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Why is Web Accessibility Important? May 18, 2009
Accessible Websites Open the Net to Blind, Deaf, Learning Disabled. Accessible website design is increasingly important to avoid discrimination and help blind, deaf, autistic, learning disabled and manually impaired users on the internet ... People who are blind, deaf, color blind, autistic, learning disabled, or those who have manual issues that restrict their mouse or keyboard use require special website design to allow them access to web content. (Suite101.com)
Australian eye specialist to be honoured Apr 29, 2009
He also revealed he'd met Helen Keller, the acclaimed US author and activist who was also deaf and blind, when she visited Australia in the late 1940s. But he was too young to remember the encounter. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Blind inmate finds new insight, hope behind bars Mar 28, 2009
"They realized I had a visual problem and they sent me off to go to school in St. Augustine (at the Florida School For the Deaf and Blind).". He got himself kicked out. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Pimping propaganda Mar 18, 2009
Roubini has called it right; he is no-nonsense in his approach; his Cassandra-like pronouncements have so far fallen on deaf ears. It is hoped that Obama or someone in Washington is willing to listen to him, and to take his advice. (Asia Times Online)
Designer Children... Mar 3, 2009
Instead of avoiding some conditions, the technique also may have been used to select an embryo likely to have the same disease or disability, such as deafness, that affects the parents. The Johns Hopkins survey found that 3% of PGD clinics had provided this service, sometimes described as "negative enhancement." Groups who support this approach argue, for example, that a deaf child born to a deaf couple is better suited to participating in the parents' shared culture. (The Drudge Report)
• Kids can help Arthur the aardvark find new friend Mar 1, 2009
"She was the mother of the deaf child in the class and Jack had interacted with her on a regular basis. He had lunch with her and played with her on the playground. He was explaining her trouble speaking when he said, 'If you just wait a little bit you can pretty much get what she means.'". The experience "always stuck in my brain," Dunn said. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Venture Academics Feb 28, 2009
After ten years of research, David Martin, a materials scientist at the University of Michigan, came up with a polymer that could help deaf people hear and blind people see. His poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), or Pedot, could coat the electrodes used for stimulating and recording from the brain, making them smaller, more sensitive and more effective at treating deafness, blindness and Parkinson's disease, among other conditions. (Forbes -- Technology)
A sense of the classroom Feb 15, 2009
ASHLEY SMITH/Times-NewsIdaho School for the Deaf and the Blind student Trevon Rinesmith, 9, works with Nicole Norum, an orientation and mobility specialist at the school in Gooding ... at the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind in Gooding ... Blind since birth, Trevon is one of 79 students with vision or hearing disabilities at the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind in Gooding. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Talk into tune Feb 11, 2009
He and his musical friends pored over the interviews with a sagely cheery Caribbean-Canadian lady, a deaf person whose hearing was restored, a reflective East Asian man, petulant children for the underlying cadences, tracking them note for note. My neighbours did the hard work of coming up with the melodies, Spearin says (maybe it's the earnestly blond western mustache or yogically upright posture, but his tongue does not seem in cheek). (Globe and Mail)
Whistling past the Afghan graveyard Feb 7, 2009
To suggest at the time, as the odd scholar of imperial decline did, that there might have been no winners and two losers in the Cold War, that the weaker superpower had simply left the scene first, while the stronger, less-hollowed-out superpower was inching its way toward the same exit, was to speak to the deaf. In the 1990s, "globalization" - the worldwide spread of the Golden Arches, the Swoosh, and Mickey Mouse - was on all lips in Washington, while the men who ran Wall Street were regularly... (Asia Times Online)
