Oklahoma City is partnering with Deaf Link to provide the Accessible Hazard Alert System (AHAS) which will send accessible alert messages to registered residents who are Deaf, Blind, Hard of Hearing, or Deaf/Blind before, during, and after an emergency or disaster in Oklahoma City. ...
OK-WARN was made possible by a federal grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, now a division of the Department of Homeland Security. Since the inception of OK-WARN in 2001, the program has been expanded statewide to serve the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. Information about ...
Working with VocoVision means helping children with special needs in school regardless of their location – they specialize in teachers of the visually impaired or of the deaf (and hard of hearing), sign language interpreters, foreign language matching, and connecting school psychologists among other...
More importantly, though, I wonder how vividly Oklahomans remember the 2010 State Superintendent election, and how terrible the next four years were for our schools. Nothing we’re hearing from the Stitt/Walters crowd now is new. It’sdéjà vuall over again. Below are five quotes, either fr...
Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents' home in Missouri for Christmas.I stopped at a gas station about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend.While I was standing in line at the cash...
Mom was hooked. The kid with the bleached, spikey hair didn’t put her off a bit. Mom was almost totally deaf in both ears but she often didn’t bother to turn her hearing aids on. That night, she turned both of them on and put her hand on the top of the TV cabinet so she ...