Category Archives: New England DeafTimes
Maine Deaf Film Festival expands to 4 days in Portland
The Forecaster With the festival, the American Sign Language Club at USM hopes to educate people about deaf culture, issues and art. “We offer a full roster of films and the movies that we tend to screen are authentic from a deaf perspective, not just a Hollywood … Click here…
Wellesley celebrates Deaf culture through storytelling
Wellesley News This more visually expressive variant of clapping—which is often the preferred way of applauding within Deaf culture—marked the end of a two-part Deaf awareness storytelling event that was co-hosted by the Wellesley College Committee for the Deaf and … Click here…
Blind and deaf, Grand Rapids’ Bill Barkeley prepares for Boston Marathon
MLive.com (Cory Olsen | MLive.com) Blind, deaf Grand Rapids’ Bill Barkeley to run Boston Marathon gallery (11 photos) GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Bill Barkeley, of Grand Rapids, is setting out to run a marathon, and not just any marathon either, the Boston Marathon. Click here…
CT’s American School for Deaf plans $19.5M addition
Hartford Business The birthplace of American Sign Language and deaf education also announced the launch of its Foundations for the Future Bicentennial Campaign to coincide with the institution’s 200 th anniversary in 2017. Farmington Bank Chairman, President and CEO … Click here…
West Hartford School Rejects Camps Run By Embattled Group
Hartford Courant By AMANDA FALCONE, afalcone@courant.com The Hartford Courant The American School for the Deaf has decided against hosting summer camps operated by Daniel Doyle Jr., whose Institute for International Sport has been dealing with debt, failed real estate … Click here…
Plane crash trial begins
Boston Herald All three plaintiffs are deaf and were part of a Deaf Pilots Association “fly-in” event on the island when their 1979 Cessna 172 Skyhawk crashed into a field near Edgartown-Katama Airpark. As a result, pilot Alec Naiman was rendered paraplegic. Click here…
Deaf man pleads guilty to assaulting deaf daughter
Ct Post The 48-year-old defendant, whose name is not being disclosed by the Connecticut Post to protect the victim’s identity, stood between two sign-language interpreters and pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree sexual assault before Superior Court … Click here…
A Reframing Retreat: Rekindle, Reconnect and Rejuvenate
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: A Reframing Retreat: Rekindle, Reconnect and Rejuvenate Facilitated by: Ryan Commerson and Alison Aubrecht September 7 – 9, 2012 Camp Mark 7 Old Forge, NY Retreat website: https://sites.google.com/site/reframingretreat/ Hosted by RID member sections IDP and DC. Posted by retreat coordinators Kelly Decker and Eileen Forestal.
Gov. Baxter School for the Deaf faces about $500K in unexpected transportation …
The Forecaster Baxter School for the Deaf in Falmouth must figure out how to cover transportation costs not previously included in its budget. The additional expense is expected to total approximately $500000. The school’s current budget includes $5.6 million from … Click here…
With friends like this
Tbo.com By ELAINE SILVESTRINI | The Tampa Tribune A woman who swindled her deaf and blind 80-year-old neighbor out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison. Rebecca Moody used power of attorney to drain Lillian … Click here..
