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Sir Elton John headlining the 2004: 'So The World May Hear' Awards Gala
24 June 2004
Building off the momentum of last year's record setting fundraiser, The Starkey Hearing Foundation's 2004 "So The World May Hear" Awards Gala is slated for Tuesday, July 20 at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Foundation hopes to raise more than $2 million for the continued dissemination of hearing aids throughout the world.
Source: healthyhearing.com
The deaf call for services in Namibia
24 June 2004
People with disabilities in the Oshana Region of Namibia are unhappy with the lack of services to satisfy their needs.
According to the rehabilitation instructor in the Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation in Oshakati Rauna Hashiyana the office receives a considerable number of complaints from disabled people, especially the hearing-impaired.
Source: www.AllAfrica.com
Gaining confidence with Airtel
16 June 2004
Asserting its identity in the saturated cellular service market, Airtel has launched the Confidence Plan for its hearing impaired users.
Tibetan sign language developed in China
04 June 2004
This is the first sign language system designed for deaf people from a minority ethnicity in China, which has 55 ethnic groups whose combined population account for about six percent of the national total.
Source: People's Daily online
Deaf World Karate Champion From Israel
04 June 2004
Israel's Avi Bokler Wins 3 Medals in Karate. Moscow, Russia - 12fth Deaf World Championship in Martial Arts ended with resounding success of Russian athletes in judo and karate. The host nation collected an aggregate of 24 medals, including 7 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze.
Source: DeafToday
Experts tackle new technology for deaf
17 May 2004
New technology is being developed by university experts in Aberdeen aimed at improving communication for deaf people.
Source: North Scotland Press and Journal, UK
World's first guide on parenting deaf children
17 May 2004
The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) has produced the world's first interactive parenting guide for parents of deaf children by parents of deaf children.
Source: National Deaf Children's Society, UK
Gang of 12 deaf thieves jailed in China
22 April 2004
Chinese police have broken up a gang of deaf teenaged robbers who carried out a string of thefts on the orders of a brutal leader.
Source: www.deafclub.co.uk / www.stuff.co.nz
School for the deaf in India faces closure
16 April 2004
The Bohla Hi-Care School for hearing-impaired children is facing closure due to lack of government support and funds, its authorities said.
Source: The Daily Star, Dhaka
Three Armenian children receive region's first cochlear implants
14 April 2004
Three hearing-impaired Armenian children, aged 2, 3 and 4, have received the region's first cochlear implants, thanks to a medical mission led by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Head and Neck Surgery.
Source: UCLA press release
Push to allow deaf jurors in Australia
14 April 2004
Should the deaf and the blind be allowed to sit on Australian juries? The Law Reform Commission in New South Wales wants people to consider this question, and has just released a discussion paper examining whether the current ban should be overturned.
Source: Transcript from Australian broadcast The World Today
Deaf pupils in Scotland losing out
14 April 2004
The head of Scotland's deaf school has revealed that pupils are losing out because teachers can not communicate fluently in sign language.
Source: The Scotsman, UK
ISL and BSL officially recognized in Northern Ireland
14 April 2004
The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS), the only UK charity solely dedicated to the needs of deaf children, said children's lives will improve as a result of sign language recognition in Northern Ireland.
Bill of rights in New Mexico
14 April 2004
New Mexico has enacted an educational bill of rights for deaf and hard-of-hearing youngsters.
Source: ABQ Journal
Africa's first HIV/Aids facility for the deaf
14 April 2004
Originally published in The Nation newspaper, Nairobi, this is an article about a new VCT (Voluntary Counselling and Testing) HIV/Aids centre , specifically for deaf people, which has justd in Kenya. It is the only centre of its kind in Africa.
Source: allAfrica.com
Expansion of schools for the deaf and blind in China
14 April 2004
Disabled children, including deaf and blind children, will attend school free of charge in the capital of South China's Guangdong Province beginning in September of next year.
Source: China Daily
Access to the Information Society for deaf and hard of hearing people
14 April 2004
A conference on the development of an EU-wide strategy to ensure that deaf and hard of hearing people and other people with disabilities have improved access to electronic communications networks, services and terminals took place in Brussels on 25 February 2004. The conference was organised by the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID).
Source: European Union of the Deaf website
Deaf people speak out in Uganda
06 April 2004
People with disabilities in Uganda say they have been marginalised for too long. They are now demanding that their basic rights be restored and recognised.
Source: Mail & Guardian - Johannesburg, South Africa
Hesperian Foundation launches book
06 January 2004
The Hesperian Foundation, a non-profit publisher of books and resources for community health, is launching a new book, Helping Children Who Are Deaf, by Sandy Niemann, Devorah Greenstein and Darlena David, which will be available from April 2004.
Source: The Hesperian Foundation
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