Bringing ASL to Local Weather Alerts – By Rachel Kaye – 4/2022 – WashingtonPost.com – In June 2000, Tara Burglund, who is deaf, was driving through a thunderstorm in Iowa.…
Tabitha BeamJuly 21, 2022
DigitalJournal.com, 05/13/22 - When Rymma Filimoshkina was practicing hammer throwing in Mariupol at the start of the war in Ukraine, her neighbors thought she was throwing a bomb. But her…
Tabitha BeamJune 4, 2022
– by Alex LoveA deaf woman who works with students at the Rochester Institute of Technology has been assisting other deaf people in Ukraine. Regina Kiperman-Kiselgof was born in Russia…
Tabitha BeamMarch 21, 2022
DeafNiche.com – A grand-scale project that was in testing stage for over a year became public in 2019; the brand-new “Quiet Taxis” hit the streets of South Korea with all…
Tabitha BeamNovember 29, 2021
Did you know there are Deaf in Afghanistan? The capital city, Kabul, has a School of the Deaf, established in 2003, and directed by Abdul Ghaffar. Abdul is both deaf…
Tabitha BeamOctober 2, 2021
During the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War in 1864, 18-year-old deaf man, Joshua Davis, lived with his parents near Macon, Georgia. Joshua was squirrel hunting one day when he…
Tabitha BeamAugust 11, 2021
Real-Time Sign Language Translation More Accessibleby Devin Coldewey - Techcrunch.com - Sign language is used by millions of people, but unlike many languages, there’s no automatic translation available for those…
Tabitha BeamMay 27, 2021
The Silenced and Isolated: Struggles of Ghana’s Deaf Community – 11/09/20 – Stephanie Russo – BorgenMagazine.com – The highest rates of deafness in the world are in sub-Saharan Africa. Ghana’s…
Tabitha BeamApril 21, 2021