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Alabama
Students learn sign language in school club
Brittney Rhodes encountered a deaf person at a local mall recently. “She was trying to find the jewelry store,” Brittney said.
Arkansas
2019 Session: Bill to improve mental health services for deaf community advances
It may be difficult for many Arkansans to communicate their feelings when it comes to mental health.
Florida
FSDB bomb threat quickly deemed not credible
A bomb threat at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind was deemed not credible shortly after it was received Tuesday afternoon.
Kentucky
Kentucky School for the Deaf choir signs national anthem at 2019 Girls Sweet Sixteen
The Kentucky School for the Deaf choir signed the national anthem while one KSD instructor sang and another led them in signing the national anthem before session two of the KHSAA Girls Sweet Sixteen at Rupp Arena on March 13, 2019.
New Jersey
American Sign Language courses attract a passionate following
Delivering a weather report and portraying a doctor and a patient during a medical checkup are not your typical classroom activities. But role-playing — along with an occasional game of hide and seek — is helping to bring American Sign Language (ASL) to life for Princeton students.
New York
Rochester Red Wings will honor city’s deaf culture with ASL uniforms
It’s not uncommon in Rochester, New York, to begin speaking to a stranger and have them reply in American Sign Language (ASL).
Utah
Deaf student reinvents lead character in Weber High’s production of ‘Wiley and the Hairy Man’
Weber High School’s current play, “Wiley and the Hairy Man,” features a four-person swamp monster who signs in American Sign Language and speaks simultaneously.
Washington
Deaf Actors and New Jokes Revitalize Romeo + Juliet
In ACT’s production of Romeo + Juliet, Shakespeare’s loveliest tale of woe, Romeo meets Juliet while she’s doing the electric slide. I nearly stood up and walked out of the theater. The electric slide? Really, director John Langs?
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Ghana
Canadian Navy visit’s Sekondi School of Deaf
Representatives of the Canadian Navy has visited the Sekondi School for the Deaf to interact with the students and made donations to the school.
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