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Quarrel Over Deaf Education
WIBC-FM in Indianapolis reports on a controversy over the use of ASL. Read the story here.
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How Indiana Took Sides In A Debate Over Deaf Schools
There is a report on a controversial funding move in Indiana here.
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Sex on a School Bus
Police in the Indianapolis suburb of Fishers say two young students were caught having sex on a school bus. The 13-year-old boy and 8-year-old girl are students at the Indiana School for the Deaf. The act was caught on tape, but investigators say no charges will be filed because the two adults on the bus could not see what was going on. Besides the driver, an adult aide and other students riding on it at the time.
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Super Signing
Miss Deaf America Rachel Mazique will perform the National Anthem and America the Beautiful in ASL at Sunday's Super Bowl. The Chicago native and winner of the Miss Deaf Illinois Pageant is working on her doctorate at the University of Texas in deaf literature.Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
The Clerc Classic
This year's Clerc Classic takes place this Thursday-Saturday at the Indiana School for the Deaf. The high school basketball and cheerleading tournament involves more than 300 boys and girls competing from eight deaf schools includes the host team and the California School for the Deaf at Riverside, the California School for the Deaf at Fremont, Illinois School for the Deaf, Maryland School for the Deaf, Texas School for the Deaf, Alabama School for the Deaf, and Model Secondary School for the Deaf. The Clerc Classic started 12 years ago in honor of Laurent Clerc, a deaf teacher who impacted thousands of students during his 50 year career.
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Implant Stolen
WTHI-TV has a video report on a stolen cochlear implant in Indiana. Watch the video below on DeafNewsToday.com or read the story here.
Hearing device stolen: wthitv.com
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Silent Blessings
Marshall Lawrence started Silent Blessings Deaf Ministries after learning his toddler was deaf. Concerned she had little to watch on television, and being too young for closed captioning, he decided to start a program for deaf children called Dr. Wonder’s Workshop out of his basement in 1996. Written mostly by the deaf, the 30 minute show includes deaf child actors using ASL. The nonprofit operation is now in Anderson, Indiana and mainly focuses on character issues, such as honesty, and includes a Bible story. Find out more here.Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
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Teen Interprets in Emergency
An Indianapolis teen helped to rescue a family from a fire with sign language. Sarah Blackwell had only studied ASL at school, but she remembered enough to help firefighters communicate with Mark and Karen Alberti this afternoon. The 18-year-old was eating lunch at a local restaurant when she saw smoke coming from a nearby house and ran to help. The couple and their 12-year-old daughter, each of them deaf, escaped unharmed. Blackwell interpreted for the family to the firefighters that the the fire started from a pile of trash while they were putting up Christmas lights. Blackwell told a local TV station that the experience so impressed her that she's considering majoring in American Sign Language in college.
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