Read more about the webinar “Introduction to Hearing and Hearing Loss for Non-Audiologists” and more in the October edition.

Link: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs154/1102782899287/archive/1122403524416.html

Students at Northern Voics,  a non-profit school for hearing impaired children in Minnesota, are given the unique opportunity to spend time with adults in the deaf community living successful professional lives.

Read more –

Link: http://www.fox9.com/news/the-goods/28670334-story

School life wasn’t always easy for Caitlin Trumm.

You maybe wouldn’t know it now — the congenial Sheboygan Falls High School freshman has a core group of friends, participates in multiple school sports and maintains good grades.

At one time, however, Caitlin was the target of classmates’ teasing and ignorance. Born with profound hearing loss, Caitlin said some of her classmates labeled her “the deaf girl” and poked fun at the cochlear implants she wore to be able to hear.

Link: http://www.sheboyganpress.com/story/life/2015/10/03/deaf-sheboygan-falls-student-mentors-others/73030058/

Drayden Ayers glanced toward his educational interpreter for a moment.

With a twinkle in his eye, the Carver Elementary School second-grader raised his hand in a small-group reading station to answer yet another question.

“It’s awesome (going to school) because I get to do a lot of things,” Drayden said.

The young student is one of more than 70 in the Dubuque Community School District with a form of hearing loss, the Telegraph Herald (http://bit.ly/1OJcneK ) reported.

“Our kids can do everything that anyone else can do, except for hear,” said Megan Johannsen, a district teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing. “The big thing we push with them is they are different, but that is a good thing. Everyone is a little bit different, and this just happens to be how they are. We teach them to be proud of that.”

Link: http://www.kentucky.com/2015/10/03/4065496/helping-hard-of-hearing-students.html

Mason Gooch is an 18-year-old senior from Montgomery County High School. He’s an outside linebacker for the football team, currently on pace for a school record for tackles for a loss.

He’s also completely deaf.

Read more at the link below.

Link: http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Deaf-football-player-speaks-to-hearing-impaired-Lexington-students-329982041.html