Two University of Washington undergraduates have won a $10,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for gloves that can translate sign language into text or speech.

Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/uow-tuw041216.php

Students in Iowa State University’s American Sign Language program test their skills during a visit to the Iowa School for the Deaf.

Link: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2016/04/11/aslprogram

Mobile phones ordinarily are strictly forbidden in the marble courtroom of the nation’s highest court, but the justices are making an exception next week when roughly a dozen deaf and hard-of-hearing lawyers will be admitted to the Supreme Court bar.

Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/supreme-court-swear-large-group-deaf-lawyers-38325598

Many in the hearing world might think the deaf can’t enjoy music and dance, poetry or storytelling.

But eight immensely talented students from the Indiana School for the Deaf shattered that myth and several others with two performances of their unique program “Vibrations” at Anderson High School on Thursday.

Link: http://www.heraldbulletin.com/community/deaf-students-shatter-myths-with-song-dance/article_563e5db3-e69d-510b-be30-cededb0f487f.html

Look at Hearing Screening Outcomes as Quality Indicators

Link: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs154/1102782899287/archive/1124211541904.html

Learn how you can be involved.

Link: http://www.nphw.org/?utm_source=NPHW&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Monday%20email&utm_campaign=Proclamation

The HHS Office of Minority Health invites partners of all sectors to join our efforts in April, and all year long, in creating a healthier nation.

Link: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USOPHSOMH/bulletins/140222d

Lynn Andrick knelt down at eye level with the group of excited preschoolers Thursday morning, mirroring their smiles as they clutched their baskets, ready to hunt for eggs.

“We want to have nice hands. No pushing. And no running because you might fall down. We want everyone to have fun and be safe!” Andrick said cheerfully to the attentive students.

It was the same instructions any adult may give a group of children; the only difference on Thursday was that, in addition to speaking these instructions to the preschoolers, Andrick simultaneously gave the instructions in American Sign Language.

Link: http://www.knoxnews.com/entertainment/life/principal-deaf-children-have-a-different-way-of-communicating-27839f9e-fa8b-1030-e053-0100007f0215--374044851.html

At the Edgerton Center, students learn engineering principles through Lego kits. Many students who visit the Edgerton Center, including the BSD students, benefit from the learning experience.

Link: http://news.mit.edu/2016/students-beverly-school-deaf-visit-edgerton-center-0323

Kentrell Martin is the author of Shelly’s Adventures series. He has published two amazing books: Shelly’s Outdoor Adventure and Shelly Goes to the Zoo.

The Shelly’s Adventures series is the first educational children‘s book series to tell a story while incorporating American Sign Language.

Link: http://www.examiner.com/article/children-s-author-changes-the-world-one-sign-at-a-time