Tag: university of Texas

Miss Deaf America raises awareness of disability

Miss Deaf America raises awareness of disability Rachel Mazique, Miss Deaf America ambassador for the National Association of the Deaf, discusses the difficulties of being the only deaf teacher and graduate student in the English Department at UT, Mazique shed…

TSD’s Dalton Etkie hopes for another record-setting season

TSD’s Dalton Etkie hopes for another record-setting season By Danny Davis AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Published: August 21, 2011 Dalton Etkie is not that different from the other high school quarterbacks in Central Texas . Like Hutto’s Ryan Higgins, Etkie, a junior…

Manzano Mile at the TSD 4/2/11

TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF MEDIA RELEASE Contact: Keena Miller – Texas School for the Deaf 512-462-5328, cell: 512-658-4444 [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Manzano Mile at the Texas School for the Deaf – April 2 Hosted by USA Olympian, Leo…

World Record Runner Visits High School Track & Fielders

TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF PRESS RELEASE   Contact:  Keena Miller Texas School for the Deaf 512-462-5328, cell: 512-658-4444 [email protected]   FOR RELEASE MARCH 3, 2011    World Record Runner Visits High School Track & Fielders   Deaf and Hard…

A defense lawyer for the deaf

A defense lawyer for the deaf Local justice gets boost with young lawyer’s sign language skills. By Steven Kreytak AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011 When Amber Farrelly Elliott was 9, her mother enrolled her in an American Sign Language…

Astronaut signs to students from space

Astronaut signs to students from space Texas School For the Deaf gets answers from ISS Updated: Tuesday, 14 Dec 2010 Published : Tuesday, 14 Dec 2010 Erin Cargile AUSTIN (KXAN) – Students at the Texas School for the Deaf received…