A bill in Kansas to change references in state law to those with hearing loss from “hearing impaired” to “hard of hearing,” was signed into law on April 19, according to an article on the “WIBW 13” website.
Project PACT: Preparation about Collaborative Teaching, offers funding to support future Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) teachers.
Educator Robert Panara, the first deaf faculty member of Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, is being honored by the US Postal Service with a stamp in the "Distinguished Americans" series.
Dentist Sabrina Magid-Katz, DMD, uses American Sign Language (ASL) and special strategies to accommodate deaf and hard-of-hearing patients in her Harrison, NY, dental practice.
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Dr Chasin discusses how the clarinet and wind instruments compare as musical instruments for people who are hard of hearing.
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Yahoo has added video captioning to an expanding number of videos from partners including The New York Times, The Associated Press, Reuters, and more to increase digital accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
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In a recent JAAA article, Rebecca Kamil and Frank Lin provide a systematic review of literature about how hearing loss in older adults affects their communication partners. Not surprisingly, what emerges is evidence of restricted social life, burden in communication, and poorer quality of life and relationship satisfaction.
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ADCO Hearing Products transferred ownership in November 2014, and new owner Abby Armijo plans to continue ADCO’s history of great products and services, while expanding its offerings throughout next year.
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An initiative amongst five organizations has led to documents being filed with the US Department of Justice that help improve access to movies in US theaters for deaf and hard of hearing people. The HLAA, NAD, ALDA, and AG Bell met with representatives from the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) to hammer out the agreement on movie captioning.
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A University of Southampton researcher has developed a TV loudspeaker system that helps people with hearing problems listen to television without affecting the sound for other viewers.
Read MoreNTID was awarded a three-year, $534,204 grant from the National Science Foundation with a collaborative sub-award to the University of Rochester to determine if stereotypes affect the way deaf and hard-of-hearing students perform in mathematics.
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A team of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology has created speech-to-text software for Google Glass that helps hard-of-hearing users with everyday conversations. According to the research team that designed the Captioning on Glass software system, a hard-of-hearing person wears Glass while a second person speaks directly into a smartphone. The speech is converted to text, sent to Glass and displayed on its heads-up display.
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Starting in October 2014, Hamilton Relay is providing Captioned Telephone Relay Service (CTRS) for the District of Columbia.
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On October 18, 2014, the Ear Institute at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) hosted an event by the Children’s Hearing Institute (CHI) and Marvel Custom Solutions to uncover the identity of Sapheara, a new girl super hero with cochlear implants.
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From Beethoven to Thomas Edison to William Hoy, many well-known people who made huge contributions to society lived and thrived by turning their “impairments” into improvements.
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The University of Minnesota recently hosted more than 100 deaf and hard-of-hearing high school students, teachers, and parents for its seventh annual Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Day. Williams Sound was there to help with its Digi-Wave wireless communication systems.
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