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International Deaf News

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February, 2010
An organization, Krou Sar Thmey, has developed a new sign language dictionary for the Khmer language in Cambodia. They developed 2 dictionaries with more than 1,600 words in sign language.

Photo from the
London Evening Standard




Four deaf teenagers in the UK will star in a new drama. The drama is named "The Boy From Before". It is a four-part series about a ghost of a boy from the 1940's who visits a school for deaf students. The show teaches lessons about friendship and bullying.


A telephone company in Ghana, Vodaphone, recently set up special telephone booths at 2 schools for the deaf and blind. The goal is to make it easier for students to communicate with their family and friends. The two schools that received the telephone booths are Mampong Senior Technical School of the Deaf and Akropong School for the Blind.

Photo from the
Canadian Press


 

Megan Jack is a medical student at the University of Manitoba in Canada. She is the first deaf student in the school’s medical program. Megan says that she has wanted to become a doctor since she was a child. After she graduates, she will be one of the few deaf doctors in Canada.

 

September, 2009      
 

Photo from gla.ac.uk

Deaf Youth Theatre is a drama group in Scotland.  They recently gave their first performance in the city of Glasgow. The name of their play is "Gone". It was written and produced by deaf children. 


A deaf woman, Ashley Fiolek, won the moto x super X women's final at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles, USA
 

Louis Kissaun is a 16-year-old deaf actor in the UK. He acts in the TV program called "Shameless". 
 


There was a music concert for deaf people in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. The concert was called Sencity, and about 2,000 people were there. They danced on a floor that vibrated. The floor was imported from the Netherlands. There was music and also special smells to match the music.  

                                                    


 

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