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See What I’m Saying World Premiere Announcement
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See What I’m Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary plays in Los Angeles
from March 18th – April 1st.
This inspirational and heartfelt documentary follows four well-known entertainers in the deaf community: a comic, a drummer, an actor and a singer as they attempt to cross over and reach mainstream audiences. These uniquely talented deaf entertainers of various [...]
WHAT: The City of Los Angeles Department on Disability (DOD) and the Commission on Disability (COD) are threatened in the City’s budget process, again. Los Angeles City Council is considering ELIMINATING the DOD and COD, as they now exist by March of this year. EACH YEAR, DOD SERVES OVER 15,000 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES (including persons [...]
Remembering…
Lawrence R. Fleischer, Ed .D.
1945 – 2009
Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, January 23, 2010
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Northridge Center, University Student Union
• Original Advocate, “OF Deaf People,BY Deaf People, and FOR Deaf People”
• Chair, Deaf Studies Department- Michael D. Eisner College of Education
• Founder, Deaf Studies as an Academic Discipline
• Outstanding Professor, Colleague, Mentor, Advisor, Friend of [...]
Caption Action 2: HR 3101 – How is it Important for Us?
Caption Action 2 is a blog that is following the “second round bout” with the congress about captioning videos and the accessibility for the disabled on the Internet. With support of the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT), an alliance whose primary goal [...]
MATA EXPO 2009 a huge success! MATA EXPO was more than just a trade show. It was an opportunity for companies, organizations, and individuals with talents to show off their sign language arts / deaf-hard of hearing products to thousands of people at once and make announcements about new products and services.
We thank everyone for [...]
Dr. Lawrence Fleischer, a professor who was instrumental in developing CSUN’s Deaf Studies program, and a leader in many facets of the deaf community, died Sunday at the age of 64.
“We lost a giant,” said Dr. Genie Gertz, who has been a faculty member in the department for 14 years. “Larry was larger than life. [...]
Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz has been appointed by the Board of Trustees as Gallaudet University’s tenth president. The announcement was made by Dr. Benjamin Soukup, chair of the Board of Trustees, on October 18 before an overflow crowd in the University’s Swindells Auditorium.
Hurwitz currently serves as president of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf [...]
The November 12, 2009 deadline for VRS and IP Relay users to register for a ten-digit numbering is rapidly approaching. The importance of having all VRS and IP Relay users registered by that date can not be underestimated. After November 12, 2009, VRS and IP Relay calls – other than 911 calls – will not [...]
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