Seeing Is Believing January 31, 2014 By Lydia Denworth A few months ago, at the start of basketball season, my husband took my two youngest sons, Matthew and Alex, to see some college games at Barclays Center, home of the…
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5-foot-9 PG Luke Adams plays for Texas Tech despite being born deaf
5-foot-9 PG Luke Adams plays for Texas Tech despite being born deaf Rob Dauster November 27, 2013 BROOKLYN — Every walk-on for every team in the country has a story. They aren’t supposed to be playing high-major basketball. They are,…
Cross-country cyclist visits Rangers Ballpark on quest to benefit hearing impaired
Cross-country cyclist visits Rangers Ballpark on quest to benefit hearing impaired by WFAA August 18, 2013 ARLINGTON, Texas — Visiting all 30 Major League ballparks sounds like a dream to baseball fans, but it's a mission for one man. Jacob…
‘Tribes’ star Russell Harvard talks deaf community culture
‘Tribes’ star Russell Harvard talks deaf community culture The Sunday Conversation By Irene Lacher April 7, 2013 The star of ‘Tribes’ at the Mark Taper Forum talks about how deaf and hard-of-hearing children are raised, the importance of American Sign…
Appeals Court Upholds Right to Captioning in Classroom
Legal Case Paves the Way for Students WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 15, 2013 – The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell) applauds the decision of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which…
Driving in Silence
DRIVING IN SILENCE September 2012 by Amanda Jakl Randall Doane has been driving big rigs for more than 10 years. Driving double and triple trailers, and tankers and hazardous material, he’s logged more than a quarter million miles across nearly…