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News Articles: deafness

Stand-up comedian D.J. Demers is hard of hearing. To reach others in the deaf community, his shows often include a sign language interpreter. Jennifer Lees (left) has interpreted many of his shows.

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  • Arts & Life

Comic D.J. Demers jokes a lot about hearing loss — but won't be 'the hearing aid guy'

Demers was diagnosed with hearing loss when he was 4 years old. As a kid, he saw nothing funny about it — but then he learned to make people laugh. He just dropped his fourth stand-up special.

November 25, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair
An experimental gene therapy tested in young children with an inherited form of deafness restored some hearing for most of them.

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  • Health

Gene therapy shows promise for an inherited form of deafness

Scientists report that gene therapy restored at least some hearing and speech for five out of six children with a rare form of genetic deafness.

January 25, 2024
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  • Rob Stein
Movie patrons arrive to see a film at the AMC 16 theater, Monday, March 15, 2021, in Burbank, Calif.

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The world's largest movie theater chain is adding open captions at 240 U.S. locations

The world's largest movie theater chain is adding onscreen captioning to 240 locations across the U.S. in an effort to make moviegoing more accessible.

October 21, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
Brady Mistic, a deaf man, is suing the city of Idaho Springs, Colo., and others over his 2019 arrest.

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  • Law

A Deaf Man Who Couldn't Hear Police Commands Was Tased And Spent 4 Months In Jail

Brady Mistic says in a federal lawsuit that police violated his civil rights by using unnecessary force during his arrest. Deaf in both ears, Mistic can't read lips and communicates by sign language.

September 29, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
Poet Raymond Antrobus's parents didn't realize he was deaf until he was 7 years old.

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'Perseverance' And Poetry Help A Writer Bridge Multiple Worlds

Poet Raymond Antrobus was born in East London to a Jamaican father and a British mother. He grew up deaf, turning to poetry as a way to navigate between the hearing and non-hearing world.

March 25, 2021
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  • Jeevika Verma
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Georgia's Deaf Community Seeks Accessibility In News And More Amid COVID-19

In Georgia, deaf people and people who are hard of hearing struggled with news accessibility and communication since the pandemic began.

October 01, 2020
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  • Jade Abdul-Malik
Some Netflix users will be able to watch shows at slower and faster speeds. It's a helpful move for blind and deaf users, advocates say.

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  • Media

Netflix Is Letting Some People Speed Up Playback. That's A Big Deal For Blind Fans

People who are blind spend a lot of time listening to words. So much that they often prefer to listen at faster speeds, including for TV shows.

August 12, 2020
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  • James Doubek

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