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June, 2010
Loud
Shirt Day is a fundraising event
for schools for deaf children in
Australia. Participants
all over Australia wear their
most colorful shirts for the day
and make a special donation to
help the schools.
250 young deaf women attended
the Deaf Action Center's 2010
Teen Leadership Summit for Deaf
and Hard of Hearing Girls held
in Plano, Texas, USA. The girls
had the opportunity to meet and
learn about how other women deal
with the challenge of deafness.
Students from the Scranton
School for Deaf &
Hard-of-Hearing Children in
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
cleaned Crowley Park on
Earth Day.
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April, 2010
 Jet
Blue is an airline (airplane)
company in the USA. In late
2009, a group of deaf students
from the Rochester School for
the Deaf in New York made a
suggestion to Jet Blue. They
suggested a new way for Jet Blue
to make traveling easier for
deaf people. They suggested a
message board inside the planes.
The message board would give
information like emergencies and
bumpy weather. Three of the
students are: Kenneth Gentzke
III, Ashley LaBarge, and Marissa
Woodruff. The leaders of Jet
Blue said they will think the
students’ idea.
Students at the Blossom
Montessori School in Clearwater,
Florida USA had a special
contest to celebrate Valentine’s
Day. The students tried to be
the "Reddest Kid" and eat the
"Reddest Lunch". The students
dressed in red clothes, colored
their hair and skin red for the
day, and even used food coloring
to dye the sandwich bread in
their lunches red.
Students at St John’s School for
the Deaf in Boston Spa, UK
raised £330 ($516) to send to
earthquake victims in Haiti..
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February, 2010
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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September, 2009
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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.
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A
deaf woman, Ashley Fiolek, won
the moto x super X women's final
at the Home Depot Center in
Los Angeles, USA.
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Louis Kissaun is a 16-year-old
deaf actor in the UK. He
acts in the TV program called
"Shameless".
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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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