d Deaf Women's Advocacy Services (ADWAS) group plans to raise $3.4 million in a capital campaign that will produce a large share of the permanent financing for 19 units of transitional housing for deaf and deaf-blind victims of domestic violence and sexual assault to be built in Seattle. ...
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For tens of thousands of deaf-blind Americans, the scope of the coronavirus outbreak and its new normal have posed unique challenges to daily life.
Alabama's most famous citizen, Helen Keller, overcame a dual challenge of deafness and blindness through the strength of her spirit and the skills of her devoted teacher, Annie Sullivan. At Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, we have long recognized the very special requirements of children wh...
ORS Calendar of Events. Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Deaf and Hard of Hearing Unit. Workforce Development Unit (For Employers). ORS Mission Statement and Core Values. State Plan Annual Updates. Proposed Rules and Regulations. Memorandums of Understandings (MOUs)/ Cooperative Agreem...
We’re aware that issues facing the Deaf, Deaf-Blind, and Hard of Hearing Community can become quite passionate and divided. What can we say, we’re a group of passionate people! While we fully support a community full of passion, we also require that comments are respectful. We think ne...
This is an amazing map of Deaf and blind school locations, and travel times between them by different methods, in 1837. But I have no source. It was given to me as a photocopy, and I’ve never been able to find out where it came from. It’s from a German text, and clearly not...
”Los Angeles City Hallearned kudos for having ASL interpreters for COVID TV briefings (with a request to consider Mexican Sign Language interpreters for LA’s heavily Spanish-fluent base). TheCity of Seattleprovides interpreters and captions through the pandemic. “It really saves our lives,...
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This dissertation examines the social and interactional foundations of a grammatical divergence between Tactile American Sign Language (TASL) and Visual American Sign Language (VASL) in the Seattle DeafBlind community. I argue that as a result of the pro-tactile movement, structures of interaction ...