Murder Plot Caught on Video say prosecutors

Three deaf people are facing murder charges in Australia. Prosecutors say the trio was caught on CCTV trying to decide whether to strangle another deaf man or push him off a balcony. Robert Wright fell from his apartment balcony in Melbourne and died in January. 9News has a video report. No captions but you can read the story in the Independent here.

Robbery and Beating at Coffee Shop

There's video of a deaf man getting beaten by thieves who took his laptop. He was just sitting outside a coffee shop in the Los Angeles suburb of Riverside. KTLA-TV has a video report. No captions but you can read the story here.

Indianapolis Conference this weekend

The American Society for Deaf Children Conference 2015 takes place in Indianapolis this coming Sunday (June 28). For more information, click here.

Meet the Dance Company

Upworthy posted a video yesterday Gallaudet about the dance company.

"It's not a deaf movie"

The Tribe is catching movie reviewers off guard. Set in a Ukrainian boarding school for the deaf and made exclusively in Ukrainian Sign Language, many assume the film has "more to do with the novelty of sign language than any merit of the actual film." Sara Nović, who is deaf, found much more. She writes, "What sets this film apart is the fact that the deaf people here are people first." Yana Novikova is one of the leads and Nović interviewed her  here. Below is a clip from the film.

Sign to dine

Customers at Vancouver's Sign to dine rrestaurant "are encouraged to order using basic sign language and each table has helpful sign language booklets to help customers communicate with their servers." CTV Vancouver has more about this unusual business here.

Suit filed to get Terp in Delivery Room

Margaret Weiss is due to give birth to her second child next month. But her hospital is refusing to provider her an interpreter in the delivery room. Instead, Bethesda Hospital East in Boynton Beach, is only willing to do VIR--that is, have an interpreter on video relay. So Weiss is suing the hospital. She explains why in a video interview with The Palm Beach Post.

Virginia Conference this week

The Virginia Association of the Deaf will hold its 59th Biennial Conference in Roanoke this week (June 26-27). For more information, click here.

Illinois Conference this week

The 48th Biennial Illinois Association of the Deaf Conference takes place this coming weekend (June 25-27) in Moline. For more information, click here.

Deaf-Blind NC man trains for triathlon

Patrick Vellia is working hard to get ready for triathlon next month. He was inspired to try by another triathlete he met more than a decade ago. Charlotte's WBTV has a video report.

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Deaf girl fights for right to play softball

A 16-year-old Indiana girl is asking the Civil Rights office to intervene on her behalf. Athletics officials have limited where the deaf girl can play softball. WXIN-TV has a video report. No captions, but you can read the transcript here.

Rules for reporting missing captioning

A new notice from the FCC explains how distributors will be expected to notify the commission about programmers who don't put captioning on their videos. The notice requires distributors to send out notices telling programmers they have 30 days to get the video captioned-and report to the FCC anyone who refuses to do it. Read the notice here.

Implant company gets new CEO

There's a new CEO at Cochlear Limited. The Australian company is trading Chris Smith for Chris Roberts in August. What does it mean for the world's largest cochlear implant company? An article in Money Morning explains here.

Austin Conference Next Week

The National Student Life for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Biennial Conference takes place next week (June 22-26) Austin. For more info, click here.

Deaf man sues Sheriff

James Piunti is suing a sheriff's office in Indiana after he was fired. Piunti says his supervisor gave him the duty of taking phone orders--something he couldn't do because he is deaf. Read the details in the Northwest Indiana Times.

NYT reviews The Tribe

The new film The Tribe takes place in a Ukrainian boarding school for the deaf--and it's disturbing. That's reflected in today's review of it in the New York Times that reads in part, "Having provoked the audience’s curiosity, the film punishes us, using the bodies of its young performers.. as tokens in a prurient, punitive spectacle." Read the full review here.

Should a child with an implant learn to sign?

That's the question posed to a group of experts. Their opinions, based on recent research, are in the most recent edition of the journal Pediatrics. Their conclusion: “The benefits of learning sign language clearly outweigh the risks. For parents and families who are willing and able, this approach seems clearly preferable to an approach that focuses solely on oral communication." Linguist Donna Jo Napoli tells Reuters Health, “Children should be surrounded by sign language as much as possible as soon as the audiological status is determined. If the child gets a cochlear implant and does well with it, fantastic. Then the child is bi-lingual.” You'll find the abstract here and you can read the Reuters story here.

Deaf and Blind school gets temp leader

Mark Gandolfi will oversee the daily operation of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind temporarily. Administrator Lynn Boyer is retiring this month. Gandolfi has served as the schools’ director of finance the last couple of years. Read the full story in the Charleston Daily Mail.

DeafFestival in Rochester

Rochester DeafFestival 2015 takes place in upstate New York this coming Saturday (June 20) at Genesee Valley Park. For more information, click here. Below is a video welcoming you to the event from the Rochester Deaf Festival board members.

Rachel Maddow, Franklin Graham and an ad about a deaf girl

Rachel Maddow talked about an ad about a deaf girl during her MSNBC news show. Evangelist Franklin Graham has criticized the ad for featuring a gay couple. Here's a video showing what she had to say about the ad.