Deaf Awareness Week Events Sept 12th-18th

We, the Deaf Awareness Week 2010 are excited to present the deaf and hard of hearing community the new and upcoming Deaf Awareness Week events from September 12 – 18th, 2010. We have a week long events and are very excited with the planning for the week. Please feel free to see the week long events we have going on. We hope you will join us for this fun filled week! continue »

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Houston Walk 4 Hearing

1 CommentBy Nabeel Keblawi | Oct.01, 2009 | Filed in: Articles

As of 2009, the number of people living in the U.S. with deafness or some degree of hearing loss amounts to more than 31 million.  With the current national population, 1 for every 10 people have a hearing loss and 65% of them are continue »

Parents of Deaf & Hard of Hearing Children/Youths

RespondBy Longster | Sep.27, 2009 | Filed in: Education,Research

The Seattle Quality of Life Group at the University of Washington is studying the quality of life of children and youth who are deaf or hard of hearing D/HH). Based on interviews with youth (ages 11-18 year) who are D/HH and parents of children (ages 5-10 years), we have created new questionnaires to measures quality of life specifically for children (parent report) and youth (self report) who are D/HH. We need you to help in the development process by completing the questionnaire. continue »

Together We Stand, Divided We Fall….

14 CommentsBy Billy Koch | Mar.26, 2009 | Filed in: Blogs

Well you know I have lived in the Houston area for over 35 years and there is no other city I can imagine living in.  Houston has it all – Food, Sports, Entertainment, and more.  You name it – Houston has got it.  But there is one thing that Houston is definitely lacking – a true deaf awareness and services. continue »