Deaf News Today

10/07/2025

The American Sign Language program at Columbia College Chicago is moving forward with its summer workshops even after the college decided to phase out the ASL-English interpretation major https://columbiachronicle.com/campus/columbias-asl-program-continues-summer-workshops-after-major-is-cut/

Columbia’s American Sign Language program is moving forward with its summer workshops, aiming to keep the campus and local community engaged even after the college decided to phase out the ASL-English interpretation major. An intermediate workshop begins next week on July 17, meeting Thursdays ....

09/07/2025

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09/07/2025

The Promise and Pitfalls of China’s AI Sign Language Interpreters https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017316

Broadcasters have embraced the tech in the name of boosting accessibility. But few bother to stop and ask what China’s Deaf community thinks about the interpreters.

09/07/2025

Getting to Know: Cochlear Limited https://www.deafnewstoday.org/post/getting-to-know-cochlear-limited

You could have bought a share of stock in Cochlear Limited at the turn of the century for about $10. A few days ago the stock was worth nearly $100 a share. Cochlear Limited is the biggest of the three companies that dominate the cochlear implant market. More than a quarter of a million people have....

09/07/2025

Manitoba's Premier is standing by a cabinet minister who complained about having to share a stage with a sign language interpreter—ironically, she is responsible for accessibility https://www.squamishchief.com/manitoba-news/kinew-says-cabinet-minister-who-complained-about-sign-language-interpreter-will-stay-10903841

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is standing by a cabinet minister who complained about sharing a stage with a sign language interpreter.

09/07/2025

"California School for the Deaf will pay $14 million to a former student who suffered years of sexual abuse at the hands of a dorm attendant, whose history of complaints the boarding school allegedly ignored." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-08/california-deaf-school-abuse-settlement

California School for the Deaf will pay $14 million to a former student who suffered years of sexual abuse.

08/07/2025

Caroline Solomon, Gallaudet University’s Dean of the Faculty, will be the next President of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf & Vice President of Rochester Institute of Technology (image RIT) https://www.rit.edu/ntid/next-president

07/07/2025

How the Black Deaf Community Is Different https://blackgirlnerds.com/sinners-in-basl-how-the-black-deaf-community-is-different/

Sinners will premiere on Max, and for the first time ever, interpreted in Black American Sign Language (BASL)

07/07/2025

A Dozen Webinars this Week about AI, Journalism & more https://www.stephengoforth.com/blog-becoming/2025/7/7/12-webinars-this-week-about-ai-journalism-amp-media

06/07/2025

MLB's first deaf player in decades 'felt the cheers'; Curtis Pride details his career in new book https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/business/curtis-pride-details-his-baseball-career-in-new-book/article_700ca3cb-fff1-4c60-bf0d-2c03e233d2dd.html

Curtis Pride describes in detail how that moment in 1993 validated his years of hard work in the minors, the odds he overcame being deaf and all the people who helped him along the way.

05/07/2025

A systematic review of machine learning approaches in cochlear implant outcomes https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-025-01733-9

05/07/2025

A Canadian student writes about her “powerful” visit to Gallaudet University
https://www.nscc.ca/international/about/travel-stories/stories/kayla-wiesblatt-story.asp

A group of interpreting students poses behind the Gallaudet University sign, with blooming trees and campus buildings behind them.