Deaf father and his newborn

💛 Sweet and loving moment. https://t.co/RpHzCBhu9P

— Annie Yu (@AnnieYuTV) October 19, 2019

Mom Remembers Daughter

A video posted on Facebook shows a deaf mom with dementia remembering her daughter. Watch it here.

Mother Gets ASL Lesson After Using the Wrong Signs

A mother wanted to teach her one-year-old child some sign language. She shares on Reddit how she accidentally taught her daughter some wrong signs. Fortunately, two deaf women saw them trying to sign in a restaurant and they graciously showed the mother the correct way to sign the words. Read the story here. (This is a corrected link. The originally posted link was broken) Some of the comments of other mistaken attempts at signing are pretty funny, causing the discussion thread to go viral.

Deaf stepdad gets emotional over heartfelt surprise

A devoted deaf stepdad is reduced to tears when his step kids surprise him with adoption requests.

Couple Adopts from China

A New Jersey deaf couple has adopted a five-year-old boy from China. The Asbury Park Press has a video. There are no captions but you can read the story here.

"I'd rather be deaf"

image from CNN digital short

CNN's digital short All-American Family is about a family of five where everyone is deaf-except the oldest son. He tells CNN that people often ask him if he wishes his family were all hearing. He tells them, "I'd rather be deaf." Read the story and see the video here.

When educating a deaf five-year-old meant sending him 868 miles from home

In honor of father's day, essayist Bob Brody writes about his father in a post on the Atlantic. He writes in part:

Bob Brody's Dad

Ultimately, then, my father learned to make do with his hearing loss. He never told me what those years away from his parents and two sisters felt like. He left me to imagine how lonely he must have felt, how homesick and abandoned, almost orphaned. Indeed, he never spoke a word against his parents about having been a five-year-old boy sent 800 miles away for 10 years. He felt nothing but gratitude for getting the opportunity to better himself.

Read more here.

Wisconsin Support group

A Green Bay non-profit called Hand-N-Hand serves some 50 families across Northeast Wisconsin affected by hearing loss. WLUK-TV files this video report (captions available).

Help for children with hearing loss

New York Family

WKBW-TV in Buffalo visits a family where everyone is deaf in the video posted below on DeafNewsToday.com. Or you can read the story here.

Silence of love

Here's a moving video from a Thailand insurance company about a deaf family.

CODAs Learning English

“Deaf parents of hearing children were once advised to have the children watch a lot of television. In no case did the children learn English. Without already knowing the language, it is difficult for a child to figure out what the characters in those odd, unresponsive televised worlds are talking about. Live human speakers tend to talk about the here and now in the presence of children.”

From The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

Mother Saves Daughter

A mother rescued her deaf daughter from out of a fire in Columbus, Ohio this morning. Jodi Reynolds quickly got out of the apartment with one of her daughters but the other did not hear the warnings. Reynolds rushed back inside to get her. She told Firefighters she heard arguing outside the building before the fire started. They say someone deliberately set the blaze.

Saved From Fire

A New Hampshire man saved his mother from an apartment fire yesterday. Kent Clark of Manchester was also able to get his fiancée who is also deaf and his infant daughter to safety. He woke up early in the morning to find his bedroom filled with fire and smoke. Clark passed his daughter out through a window but when he searched for his mother, Marlene Clark, he found her hair on fire. He was able to get her outside but she was unconscious with significant facial injuries. The cause of the blaze was determined to be improperly disposed cigarettes. The family lost everything in the fire.

Essay Winner

A Kansas City CODA has won the 2009 Kansas City Royals Father of the Year Essay Contest. Katie Gwynn attends St. Thomas Aquinas High School took first place out of 4500 entries. She has four siblings and says her deaf father is a very good listener.

Couple's Argument

The Tampa Bay Tribune explains what happened when a deaf couple got in a fight last night and then called the police.

Marriage.. By the Numbers

Only one out of 10 deaf people in the US will marry a hearing person, according to studies by Gallaudet University.

Helping Deaf Victims of Domestic Violence

A Place of Our Own in Seattle is the nation's first transitional housing program for low-income deaf and deaf-blind women recovering from domestic violence or sexual assault. The
Program is run by Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services (ADWAS) which began providing services in 1986. The group says rates of domestic violence among the deaf are similar to those for the general population. The National Domestic Violence Hotline says about one in six deaf, deaf-blind or hard-of-hearing women deal with physical abuse every year. The agency has a staff of 18 and operates on an annual budget of more than a million dollars serving more than 100 clients. Besides a place to stay, ADWAS offers legal advice and a parenting program.