Washington Food Market Becomes Hub For Deaf Community

VIDEO [CC] - Washington Food Market Becomes Hub for Deaf Community. VOA's Michael Lipin reports on the key elements that help to draw many hard of hearing customers to Union Market.



WASHINGTON - A year-old food market in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood has become a unique hub of shopping and dining for the city's Deaf community.



One feature that draws many hard of hearing customers to Union Market is the ability to communicate with staff members like Thadeus Suggs. The 23-year-old lunchtime food vendor from Seattle interacts with them easily because he is fluent in American Sign Language.



Suggs, who also is Deaf, began working at the historic market weeks after it opened in September 2012, following a major renovation.

Since then, Suggs has been on leave from his undergraduate studies across the street at Gallaudet University - the only university in the world specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students.



With the help of Gallaudet interpreter Carolyn Ressler, Suggs explained what he likes about his job.



"One nice thing is it is so close to Gallaudet, which by the way is the 'Deaf Mecca'," he said. "And with that, we are providing services to the Gallaudet community as well as the community at large. I think they benefit from it, as do I." Read more http://www.voanews.com/content/washington-food-market-becomes-hub-for-deaf-community/1762302.html

Gallaudet: Alleged Assault High School Students

Gallaudet University: Police probe sex assault involving 2 Gallaudet high school students during school trip.



ANNAPOLIS, Maryland. - Anne Arundel County police are investigating an alleged assault involving two students from Gallaudet University’s secondary school during a school trip to Annapolis.



Police spokesman Justin Mulcahy said Tuesday that police are conducting a criminal investigation into the alleged incident on a bus in the county on Saturday morning. He says police were notified Sunday night.



University spokeswoman Kaitlin Luna says the students are enrolled in the school’s Model Secondary School for the Deaf, a program for high school age students at the university’s Washington, D.C., campus. She says the incident occurred during a chaperoned, school-sponsored trip, but referred questions about the incident to police. Read more: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/08/27/2-gallaudet-hs-students-report-sex-assault-during-school-trip/

The Deaf Community: Seeing Voices

ASL/AUDIO Version - The Deaf Community: Seeing Voices - Teresa Curtin, Aaron Kubbey, Lewis Merkin, Terrylene Sacchetti. Moderated by Janice Rimler presented at, NewYorkLiveArts - Live.



The Sign Language as the distinct expression of their culture and community. Sacks travelled to Gallaudet University to witness the tumultuous events and subsequently chronicled them with remarkable sympathy and insight in his book "Seeing Voices".



This panel, moderated by Janice Rimler, will focus a variety of such voices on Sacks' contributions to the wider discourse between the hearing and the Deaf.

Seeing Voices - With Seeing Voices, Dr. Sacks launches on a journey into the world of the Deaf, which he explores with the same passion and insight that have illuminated other human conditions for his readers everywhere.



Seeing Voices begins with the history of Deaf people in the United States, the often outrageous ways in which they have been seen and treated in the past, and their continuing struggle for acceptance in a hearing world. And it examines the amazing and beautiful visual language of the Deaf–Sign–which has only in the past decade been recognized fully as a language–linguistically complete, rich, and as expressive as any spoken language. ...READ MORE: http://www.oliversacks.com/books/seeing-voices/

Deaf Women Interview With Michelle A. Banks

VIDEO: Reflections of a black Deaf women interview with Michelle A. Banks in American Sign Language.



"Michelle Banks, Deaf African American Entertainer,is a busy young woman who has exhibited "outstanding leadership" in the arena of Black Deaf entertainment and culture.

She was the first Deaf student to study drama at the State University of New York. She established the first and only!



Deaf theater of color: Onyx Theater. She is one of a "rare breed": a Black Deaf actress featured in a Black television show on a cable network ("Soul Food" on Showtime).



In addition, Michelle has toured several U.S. cities in her one-woman show, "Reflections of A Black Deaf Woman" and has appeared in movies and on stage (one role was in the recent revival of "Big River" featuring a unique cast with both hearing and Deaf performers). Starting at age three, Michelle was schooled on the Gallaudet campus.

Cochlear Implant Users Parody

VIDEO [CC] - Parody of the cochlear implant users.



'Cochlear Implant' parody. Watch the video and giving you an example of what a cochlear implant looks like. It's a worthwhile to watch hilarious video. Enjoy!

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