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VRS is a critical service that gives deaf and hard of hearing people the ability to communicate in American Sign Language with hearing people over the telephone network.
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Read articles about a wide variety of deaf and hearing people: ... Deaf People on TV Fifties to Today ... Deaf - Being Told Never Mind - Insulting Deaf People...
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deafness.about.com/od/articlesandnewsletters/a/famousde...
deafness.about.com/od/articlesandnewsletters/a/famousdeaf.htm
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Deaf People with Autism ... Support for Deaf People with Autism ... multiply disabled deaf people...
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deafness.about.com/cs/multipledisab/a/autism.htm
deafness.about.com/cs/multipledisab/a/autism.htm
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Can you tell me how many deaf people there are in the United States? ... The answer is not simple because various definitions of deafness are used, depending on where you look for answers, each leading to a different estimate for the number of deaf people in the United States.
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gri.gallaudet.edu/Demographics/deaf-US.php
gri.gallaudet.edu/Demographics/deaf-US.php
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Hearing impairment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A hearing impairment or deafness is a full or partial decrease in the ability to detect or understand sounds. Caused by a wide range of biological and environmental factors, loss of hearing can ha...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_impairment
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The information is collected here as a service to the Deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing communities. I gladly welcome ... USA: DeafChat.com -- a chat site for Deaf people ... USA: MN Chemical Dependency Program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals -- treats people from all over the U.S., not just Minnesotans...
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www.deaflibrary.org/
www.deaflibrary.org/
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Perspectives on Deaf People ... The "pathological" view of Deaf people has also been called the Clinical-Pathological view or the Medical Model. Essentially this view accepts the behaviors and values of people who can hear as "standard" or "the norm" and then focuses on how Deaf people deviate from that norm.
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www.signmedia.com/info/adc.htm
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In what language do deaf people think? I think in English, because that's what I speak. But since deaf people cannot hear, they can't learn how to speak a language. Nevertheless, they must think in some language. ... Years ago such people were called deaf-mutes. Often they were considered retarded, and in a sense they...
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www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2486/in-what-language...
www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2486/in-what-language-do-deaf-people-think
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