Signing Santa Brightens Deaf Girl's Holiday

VIDEO: [CC] - Santa Claus brightened a Deaf girl's holiday when he surprised her with sign language.



BOSTON - A signing Santa makes a little Deaf girl's holiday. This may the story of the night, the man behind the beard put in a lot of effort to pull off a crist has surprise. Take a look, this is the photo of 6-year-old Sadie Adam on Santa's lap for the first time, to her surprise, Sadie didn't need interpreter. "Yeah, Santa knew her name, knew how to sign it. Santa knew her how, she stopped dead in her tracks". She stared at him. Santa has been thousands of concern but Sadie was the first for him, too.



Once Santa started doing sign language, she dot the top of the stairs and in awe. Sadie stoppedment her eyes were bright wide open. Valor to alpert has within playing Santa for 15 years. Sadie's mom taught him all he needed to mow. Santa said Merry Christmas. Santa knew she would be speechless.

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Santa was happy. He instantly starting tearing. What! Sodie's mom told Santa what her wanted. " I Want a kitchen and a baby, the little girl like any other child who believed". Just the other night they were watching the Grinch and she said "You know, Santa know nice name, flight shy still remembers".



She still talking about it. Hard to tell who was happier. "I felt look I was going to tear up also, I was happy that I make her day. I made her happy, what so many children take granted for this 6-year-old become a magical moment." Sadie's mom says will be many other christmases with you but this one and this Santa will always be remembered. SOURCE

Lifeguard Rescues Deaf Dog Got Stuck In Mud

VIDEO: [CC] - Lifeguard rescues Deaf dog that got stuck in mud at San Diego beach.



SAN DIEGO (ABC News) - A lifeguard rescued a service dog that became stuck in mud at Dog Beach in Ocean Beach Wednesday.



Just after 5 p.m., a woman told authorities that she was walking the dog which belonged to a quadriplegic veteran when the animal somehow broke free and ran away. The dog, a German wirehaired pointer named Rita, then became stuck in a muddy area of the beach.



"It was up to her neck and it was terrifying," said Joey Riley, the veteran's caregiver. She was signing to the 12-year-old dog, which is Deaf.

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"As I stepped, my feet would sink down into the mud so I backed up so that I didn't get into the same situation as she did," said Riley.



It was a situation she was well aware had killed a man a year earlier, who became trapped when the tide washed in. Lucky for Rita, help arrived in the form of a lone rescuer, San Diego Lifeguard Chuck Davey.



"I was able to get the front paws onto the board and then I had to dig down into the organic matter and pull the dog up onto the board," he said. Using a surfboard, he was able to free the dog from the thick mud. Riley made her way to the animal and was able to call it over. No injuries were reported. Source

Deaf Boy Signs With Dragons Mascot

VIDEO: Baseball club Dayton Dragons mascot signs to Deaf child, 7, in heartwarming video.



DAYTON, OHIO (ABC News) It is a video being shared around the web after young, Deaf boy from Germantown made a connection with the Dayton Dragons mascot, Heater, that no one was expecting.



Hunter may be a bit camera shy, but he is not shy about his favorite team. "I met heater and Gem," signed the seven year old. The Samworths were at the game on Saturday.



"We were outside getting ready to go in and there was Heater and Gem so Hunter ran up. And so next thing you know, I'm telling Hunter, say. 'It's nice to meet you,'" said Hunter's Mom, Cheri Samworth.

Unexpectedly, a Green Team member escorting Heater, starting signing back to him. So Dad started recording it and that is when the mascot himself joined in. They exchanged names and talked about the big game.



"You can see on the video, his smile is like, he's gets me, he speaks my language, he understands me, Just a completely different experience for Hunter," Cheri said.



"It just froze, everything froze. It was just, the look on his face was just priceless," said Hunter's Dad, Matt Samworth. The Dragons are away so Heater and members of the Green Team have the day off. Source

Deaf Man Arrested After Standoff With SWAT

EXCLUSIVE: SWAT standoff with Deaf man in Grand Prairie ends peacefully.



GRAND PRAIRIE, TX. - (KVUE News) A standoff with police ended peacefully Monday morning when a man upset about his girlfriend's arrest surrendered after threatening to kill himself.



According to Grand Prairie police spokesperson Lyle Gensler, police responded to a domestic situation at the Sugar Creek Apartments in the 900 block of Duncan Perry just after midnight Monday and found a man and a woman - both legally Deaf - involved in a dispute outside their apartment.



Police determined the woman was intoxicated, and she was arrested for public intoxication.



The arrest upset her boyfriend, who called 911 using Texas Relay, a service that provides telephone access for people with speech or hearing loss. He indicated he had a gun and told dispatchers he wanted his girlfriend to be released from custody or he'd kill himself.



"He has a computer in there that he can talk to via Skype and talk to a live person, and that person can relay to us what he's signing," an officer explained during the standoff. "And that's only if he wants to talk to us.



We've talked to him a couple of times, we've explained to him what's going on, but he still seems unhappy with the whole situation." ... Read more: http://www.kvue.com/news/state/241179071.html

Deaf Seahawks Player Inspires Deaf Community

VIDEO: Super Bowl 2014: Seahawk's Derrick Coleman First Legally Deaf Player.



(ABC News) The fullback says he used other people's doubts to motivate himself to succeed.



The most compelling stories today really has to be star player for the Seahawks this gentleman his name is Derrick Coleman he's made it to the pinnacle of his sport. Despite being legally Deaf.



Here's ABC's Neal Karlinsky of the leader today news. Loaded in the NFL's Seattle Seahawks number forty will be the only player who sees the fans.



Fullback Derrick Coleman is the first legally Deaf offensive player in the NFL. And he wouldn't change a thing. Just who I am I'm not gonna let Dan Marino come here and tell me made me who I am today Coleman. Life story making in the unlikely star of this Duracell battery commercial that's gone by.



It couldn't be done. That I was a lost cause. The chilling and inspirational is no story it's Coleman's life.

He gave up until early on his hearing aids were a problem they just didn't fit or work right inside his helmet until his mother had an idea.



So a pair of pantyhose position and I kept them respect the hearing aid. I needed to help him.



Achieve his dream - He taught himself to lip-reading to get something he relies on during games if you weren't wearing your hearing aids and what what I sound like right now. I know you've talked it. But who basically all mobile from me he spends his free time visiting schools spreading the message that no one is perfect and no matter what the challenge.



Source: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/super-bowl-2014-seahawks-derrick-coleman-legally-deaf-21588954



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NAD Says 'Fake' Interpreter Signing Gibberish

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Captioned - Deaf Advocates say sign language interpreter was meaninglessly waving his arms around.



NEW YORK (ABC News) - This is a special room in New York with his ABC news digital special reports speaking gibberish with his hands, experts say.



About the man who steady provided sign language translation on the stage during Nelson Mandela's memorial service and children's children with world leaders the gestures. Apparently all made up in signing any language, BBC's Ross has more information from Johannesburg and Barack Obama was one of the busiest men on the planet.



Barack Obama the man next to him doing the sign language interpreting the speeches at the memorial ceremony for Nelson Mandela. He did it for hours. But Deaf people started complaining over the Internet that they were missing out the chair of the society of South Africa came to tell us what he made at the ceremony.

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Now is sending them some stood it doesn't have meaning that there I don't know what this means of the sign language interpreter.



So together we watched one of Nelson Mandela's grandchildren deliver. You can see even wonders if a rocking horse was mentioned in the podium because the interpreter the for one. Many people that hope that that be plenty of singing and dancing to celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela they weren't really ready for all those long speeches at the ceremony. But the biggest headache now for the South African government which organized the event is to explain how this man got the job.



Fortunately from local TV it's clear that to interpret his a completely different page. An extraordinary case of lost in translation.



For more on this I'm joined now by the president of the National Association of the Deaf Chris Wagner was talking with as via an interpreter. What was the signer do weighing that make people think he was a fake. ... Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/video/nelson-mandela-memorial-interpreter-angers-deaf-community-21185135



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Deaf Advocates Sues U of M Over Stadium Design

VIDEO: National Association of the Deaf sues University of Maryland for failing to provide closed captioning at sports games.



WASHINGTON - Aberdeen Patch: A lawsuit filed in September by the National Association of the Deaf against the University of Maryland for its lack of amenities for Deaf fans at sporting events is just one of many such efforts to ensure hearing-impaired sports enthusiasts can enjoy themselves at stadiums.



Association CEO Howard A. Rosenblum said his organization has successfully sued other athletic organizations over the same issue, including the Washington Redskins, Ohio State University and the University of Kentucky.



The association successfully sued the Washington Redskins in 2011. According to lawsuit documents, the Redskins were required to “provide Deaf and Hard of Hearing fans equal access to the aural information broadcast over the stadium bowl public address system at FedEx Field.”

The University of Maryland lawsuit details complaints brought to the association by Sean Markel and Joseph Innes, two Deaf sports patrons who regularly attend Terrapin sporting events at Comcast Center and Byrd Stadium. Markel and Innes filed another complaint against the university on Oct. 16.



“This is an action to enforce the rights of individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and to ensure full and equal access to the defendant University of Maryland, College Park’s football and basketball games and other programs, services and activities taking place at defendants’ venues and on the University of Maryland athletic department website,” reads the official complaint filed by the association on behalf of Markel and Innes.



Maryland Assistant Vice President of Marketing and Communications Brian Ullman released a statement in response to the first complaint saying the university is committed to making sure Terrapin fans with disabilities can enjoy the school’s sporting events. He said the team already offers closed captioning through a special website that can be displayed on smart phones and tablets. ... Read more: http://aberdeen.patch.com/groups/sports/p/deaf-advocates-suing-university-of-maryland-have-had-success-with-other-institutions_56a6b094

Annapolis Man Rides 10K Miles, Raises $150K For The Deaf

VIDEO: Annapolis man rides 10K miles, raises $150K for the Deaf.



ANNAPOLIS, Md. - ABC News - Jacob Landis is home and healing after a nearly 10,000-bike ride that raised more than $150,000 in donations toward cochlear implants.



Landis was 180 miles shy of his goal after a passing truck clipped his shoulder. Landis was thrown from his bike and suffered a severe concussion, broken nose two small cheek bone fractures and a chipped tooth. He literally poured sweat and blood into his mission of raising awareness for the Deaf community. He’s home now with a sprain wrist and bruised shoulder.



His efforts will yield cochlear implants for 15 people.

Eileen Jones, founder of the Gift of Hearing Foundation, said Landis’ ride “far exceeds what we’ve been able to do in nine years.”



Landis was welcomed home yesterday by former co-workers, family and friends at an event in Annapolis. ... Read more http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/region/anne_arundel_county_/annapolis-man-rides-10k-miles-raises-150k-for-the-deaf



For those interested in finding out more about Landis's mission, go to www.JacobsRide.com

Deaf Couple Killed in Hit-and-Run by Semi Truck

VIDEO: Deaf couple killed in hit-and-run by semi truck in florida. Camera image of a truck believed to be identified in a fatal hit and run crash.



FORT PIERCE, Fla. - WPTV: The Florida Highway Patrol has identified a person of interest in the fatal hit-and-run crash that left two young people dead Monday evening on Florida’s Turnpike near mile marker 166 in Fort Pierce.



Robert Bates, a 68-year-old resident of Sanford, Florida, was identified as a person of interest in the accident that killed 19-year-old Mariah A. King and 24-year-old Vincent T. Mathews as they attempted to change a tire on their PT Cruiser around 8 p.m., according to Sgt. Mark Wysocky, spokesman for FHP.



The victims were pronounced dead at the scene.



Earlier Tuesday morning FHP investigators traveled to Orlando to question a suspect in the fatal hit-and-run wreck. They told WPTV that they had spoken with the suspect and had recovered the rig.



However, Tuesday evening FHP said in a media release that investigators did not find the person of interest at home and had not recovered the 2006 Peterbuilt tractor-trailer believed to have been involved in the fatal accident. Investigators did speak with representatives of Mercer Transport of Louisville, Ky,, the registered owner of the semi, regarding the investigation and said company officials were cooperating.



WPTV reached out to family members of both victims but they declined to comment. However, they said they were devastated. One family member did confirm the two were visiting friends further south and were on their way back home to Lakeland. FHP investigators called the site tragic.

"Anytime you're attempting to change your tire and a car veered off the road and hit the people…it's going to be a tragic site," said Sgt. Wysocky. Both victims are former students of the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind. ... Read more Robert Bates: Person of interest identified in fatal crash that killed a Central Florida couple



UPDATE: Recovered in the Orlando-Sanford area - FHP finds tractor trailer suspected of deadly hit and run crash in Fort Pierce

Deaf Man's Ex-Roomate Arrested For Electronic Thief

VIDEO: Deputy chases man accused of stealing Deaf man's iPad, TV. Deaf man's ex-roommate Michael Palmer arrested.



VERO BEACH, Florida. - A deputy chased after the ex-roommate of a Deaf man whose television and iPad were stolen, an Indian River County Sheriff's Office spokesman said.



Carl Johnson returned to his group home Wednesday night and found he had been burglarized. His clothing, television and, most important, his iPad were gone.



Johnson, who uses the iPad as a way to overcome his challenges in communicating, called 911 and met with Indian River County Sheriff's Office Deputy Greg Farless.



Johnson was telling Farless that he believed his former roommate, Michael Dudley-Palmer, was the thief when Dudley-Palmer returned. Dudley-Palmer had come to the group home to visit another friend.

Farless approached Dudley-Palmer and said that's when Dudley-Palmer ran off. Farless chased him. "Not fun when you're as old as me," Farless said. "But I just stayed with him." The chase went through yards, hedges and streets and lasted three blocks before Dudley-Palmer gave up.



"He ended up admitting to taking the items," Farless said. "The iPad he sold on the street for drugs." Read more: http://www.wpbf.com/news/south-florida/treasure-coast-news/deputy-greg-farless-chases-man-accused-of-stealing-deaf-mans-ipad-tv/-/8882916/21704016/-/13f4i7g/-/index.html

Missouri Deaf Kids To Hospital As Bus Overturns

Charter bus overturns; 20 children taken to hospital. Authorities say as many as 20 children are being taken to a hospital after a charter bus carrying students from the Missouri School for the Deaf overturned in eastern Missouri.



DANVILLE, Mo. (ABC News) - A charter bus carrying students from the Missouri School for the Deaf overturned along an interstate in eastern Missouri on Friday, sending 15 children and three adults to a hospital but causing no life-threatening injuries, authorities said.



The accident happened around 1:30 p.m. as the eastbound bus was exiting Interstate 70 near Danville, about 75 miles west of St. Louis.



The children, who were between ages 10 and 18, were treated in the emergency room at University Hospital in Columbia, along with the bus driver and two chaperones, hospitals spokeswoman Mary Jenkins said. She said the adults' injuries also appeared not to be life-threatening.



Department of Elementary and Secondary Education spokeswoman Sarah Potter said initial reports from the hospital indicated the children had "minor injuries bumps and bruises, that sort of thing."



The superintendent of the Fulton school went to the hospital to help translate for the children. Jenkins said the hospital also brought in eight sign-language interpreters to help the children communicate.



The state-run School for the Deaf has residential and day programs for children in first through 12th grades. The bus was taking the children from the central Missouri campus to five drop-off points in St. Charles, St. Louis, Arnold, Sikeston and Cape Girardeau, Potter said... Read more at http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/charter-bus-overturns-eastern-mo-hurt-19856284

Deaf Woman Survivor Southwest Airlines Crashed

VIDEO [CC] - Deaf Southwest Airlines passenger recounts ordeal. Southwest flight reveals terror on the tarmac as nose landing gear suddenly collapses and plane with 150 people comes to a fiery skidding halt.



NEW YORK - Boeing 737-700 was bound for New York from Nashville, Tennessee. Southwest Airlines Flight 345 carried 144 passengers and six crew members - New Yorker Aidan Mack, who is deaf - one of the passengers. NTSB looking into cause of Southwest landing gear collapse.



Aidan Mack captured a similarly terrifying scene from her seat aboard the plane, filled with 144 passengers and six crews members. Her video shows some passengers beginning to panic after they were shaken by the hard jolt with no warning.



Ms Mack's story is even more incredible because she is deaf. She struggled to understand what was happening and fought panic - because she was unable to hear any of the announcements in the cabin.

'For me, it was just frantically trying to figure out the situation by watching the body language and the expressions of my fellow passengers, but I was really quite unique in that situation and all alone,' she told the TV station through sign language.



Ms Mack's video footage shows some panicked passengers stand and scream after the crash-landing. Most, though, remained calm. Read more at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2374338/Southwest-Flight-345-Boeing-737-crash-lands-LaGuardia-nose-landing-gear-collapses.html



Source: Exclusive interview with Aidan Mack http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=9182271

Anti-Bullying At Florida School For The Deaf

VIDEO [CC] - Florida School for the Deaf and Blind takes anti-bullying stand.



ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FL - Since the implementation of the Jeffrey Johnston "Stand up for All Students" Act, which was passed in 2008, all schools in the state are required to have anti-bullying policies in place.



The Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine is just one district working to eliminate bullying. Students from elementary through high school are learning about the importance of being respectful, responsible and cooperative.

"She was teasing me like 'I didn't know the words, I didn't know the English language," said student Julia Kadzis.



"In my last school, I had no friends. No one would talk to me really," explains freshman Gracie Delong.



"I've had lots of experiences with bullying here and in the world, and I've tolerated it," said senior D.J. Snell.



Students at FSDB recall their own personal experiences with bullying. "They kept bullying me because I'm a Deaf person," Snell said.



"No one would talk to me really, no one would sit next to me at the lunch table," said Delong. "And the same group of girls would bully me because they didn't think I could see certain things." ...Read more: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/article/FSDB-takes-anti-bullying-stand

Marlee Matlin Promotes 'Switched at Birth' Episode

VIDEO [CC] - Good Morning America: Exclusive interview with Marlee Matlin in Landmark 'Switched at Birth' Episode.



Actress discusses taking a risk in using American Sign Language and subtitles on ABC Family's ‘Switched at Birth.’



Actress Marlee Matlin came by Good Morning America March 4 2013 to talk about the landmark new episode of Switched at Birth, which will be the first in history to be aired on television entirely in American Sign Language. Marlee Matlin, who is Deaf in real life, appeared with a translator, who facilitated the interview between her and Robin Roberts.



Matlin said it’s been an amazing journey for her, because she began in the business 28 years ago trying to get her language, American Sign Language, across to anyone watching television or movies. She said it’s going to be beautiful to show and highlight to the whole world the culture of American Sign Language.

The clip they showed of tonight’s Switched at Birth episode was extremely powerful. I’ve never seen the show, but Marlee Matlin and actress Lea Thompson were sitting at a dining room table signing to each other about how to get reporters to a high school presentation of Romeo And Juliet.



The clip was completely silent. There wasn’t even background noise. The silence, plus the American Sign Language used by both actresses discussing something as everyday as a high school play, was really striking and wonderful. It’s going to be a great episode... Read more: http://www.recapo.com/good-morning-america/gma-celebrities/gma-marlee-matlin-switched-at-birth-american-sign-language-episode/



‘Switched at Birth’: ABC Family’s The teen soap Switched at Birth explores self-expression and the communication gulf between the hearing and Deaf communities. List of Switched at Birth characters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Switched_at_Birth_characters



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