Articles for Deaf Children

Scientifically Speaking | A groundbreaking gene therapy trial enables deaf children to hear for the first time
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Scientifically Speaking | A groundbreaking gene therapy trial enables deaf children to hear for the first time

Hindustan Times  

For most of us, the joys of hearing a loved one’s voice or the simple pleasure of listening to music is a given. This innovative treatment, reported on June 5 in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, delivered a working copy of a crucial gene to the inner ear to allow these deaf children to hear for the first time. One …

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Government inquiry into Auslan access highlights disadvantages for Canberra's Deaf community
2 years, 1 month ago

Government inquiry into Auslan access highlights disadvantages for Canberra's Deaf community

ABC  

Kellyanne Rosalion and her seven-year-old daughter are both Deaf, but Ms Rosalion's husband and three-year-old are not, so she describes her household as bilingual, practising both Auslan and English. "Auslan is my daughter's first language, given it was the only language fully accessible to her due to her deafness," she said. "It is becoming increasingly clear that families are struggling …

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Love Island's Tasha was bullied by anonymous trolls
2 years, 6 months ago

Love Island's Tasha was bullied by anonymous trolls

Daily Mail  

She's been catapulted into the limelight as one of 11 singletons in the this year's Love Island villa. Attacked via anonymous question platform Ask.FM, Tasha, who is Love Island's first deaf contestant, revealed that she would receive messages telling her to 'get cancer and die'. Vicious: Love Island's Tasha Ghouri was bullied by anonymous trolls sending 'horrible' messages when she …

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Deaf education vote is the latest parents’ rights battleground in L.A.
2 years, 7 months ago

Deaf education vote is the latest parents’ rights battleground in L.A.

LA Times  

Ellie Shmilovich, 12, center, a deaf sixth-grader, with parents Heidy Alvarenga and Alon Shmilovich, brother Elias Shmilovich, 9, and sister Estie Shmilovich, 14, say “I love you” in sign language at their home in Reseda. We’re doing this for these students.” Many deaf educators, activists, district parents and students agree, pointing to years of research showing that, although early intervention …

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Rose Ayling-Ellis: ‘There’s nothing wrong with being deaf – it’s society that’s the problem’
3 years, 1 month ago

Rose Ayling-Ellis: ‘There’s nothing wrong with being deaf – it’s society that’s the problem’

The Telegraph  

She points out that last year, before lockdown, BSL interpreters were at first missing from the daily Government briefings on Covid. Deaf people were dying because they didn’t know what was going on.” But she is used to being left out of the conversation, or having to work extra hard to follow it. “A hearing child gets spoken language all …

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German couple devote lives to deaf kids in Changsha
3 years, 6 months ago

German couple devote lives to deaf kids in Changsha

China Daily  

Dorothee and Uwe Brutzer, known by locals as Du Xuehui and Wu Zhengrong, in their bakery dedicated to helping deaf people in Changsha, Hunan province. The German couple, who are known by their Chinese names of Du Xuehui and Wu Zhengrong, had just completed a two-year Chinese language course when they came to visit the Hunan Disabled Persons' Federation to …

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Half of deaf children not receiving specialist teaching support in pandemic
3 years, 11 months ago

Half of deaf children not receiving specialist teaching support in pandemic

The Independent  

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