Hearing Loss/Deafness
to go directly to the directory click on: www.mass.gov/mcdhh .
COMMISSION FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING ISSUES UPDATED STATEWIDE RESOURCE DIRECTORY
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) today announced the publication of its updated Statewide Resource Directory, a reference tool to benefit people who are deaf, hard of hearing and late-deafened.
The new [...]
This just in from the USA Today (Associated Press):
Pepsi hopes silence is golden with Super Bowl ad
By Vinnee Tong, AP Business Writer
January 25, 2008
NEW YORK – Amid the wall-to-wall sound during next Sunday’s Super Bowl, one commercial from PepsiCo could send some viewers grabbing for their remotes to check whether they’d accidentally hit the mute [...]
Some consumers have expressed concern about how the converter boxes will work and whether consumers will continue to receive closed captions after the transition to digital television takes place. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wishes to reassure consumers that its rules do require digital-to-analog converter boxes to pass through closed captions. This advisory explains how [...]
Watertown resident named this year’s “Hero among us” by the (again) fabulous Boston Celtics! Congratulations Jaimi!!
Perkins Alumna named “Hero Among Us”
When she was born deaf and blind, doctors told Jaimi Lard’s parents she would not be able to learn at all. But today Jaimi spends most of her time teaching others about the obstacles [...]
From H2Otown, another Watertown historic “first” . . .
H2otown is proud to be from someplace that is the birthplace of so many innovations for the blind. Few people realize how much innovations aimed at people with disabilities have a significant positive impact on society as a whole.
“Rabbit ears” on televisions will be history after the February 17, 2009 cut off date for analog TV signals. Although I’m somewhat of a techno-dunce on how these things work (I’m still constantly amazed that airplanes can get off the ground, heavy as they are…ha ;), however, this transition strikes me as yet another example [...]
yet another reason to be annoyed with the recent overhyped release of Apple’s iPhone, especially considering that hearing loss is the fastest growing disability in the US with the aging of the boomer generation and increase in hearing loss experienced by our veterans returning from Iraq and Afganistatan (as Stars and Stripes reports) . . . from Computerworld [...]
The late and legendary Speaker of the House in Congress Tip O’Neil (who represented Watertown for many years) often said, “All politics are local”.... on this website I’ve been occasionally reversing that concept to bring the wider state/national and even global sphere of disability and access issues to the local level.
In my previous post you’ll find updates on the status of the [...]
More on boomers and acquired disabilities as just being the nature of things…. From today’s Boston Globe:
Can you spot the personal communication assistant? As boomers age, products like hearing aids are getting a style and marketing makeover
By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff | July 30, 2007
For the past five years, Aram Donabed has worn what he calls “the traditional [...]
Actually, attitude is all…
It doesn’t matter how skilled a person is at ASL, fingerspelling, or communication in general with Deaf, late-deafened, hard of hearing, and Deaf Blind individuals. It’s a positive attitude and commitment to making communication happen through “whatever works” that’s the key.
From the Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2007.
If You Can Understand, Give Me a [...]
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