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ROCKLIN—American Sign Language (ASL) will celebrate its 200th anniversary since being established at the first American school for the deaf in 1817. A community eager to promote this history is the ASL program at William Jessup University (WJU). They are holding the event, “ASL Day For All” on Saturday, April 8 to bring the Deaf and hearing people of northern...

NORTHRIDGE—In a handful of colleges today, materials discussing deaf children within the education system, and the problems that schools often cause are required for students to learn. Such materials may include the critical and disabling pedagogy that can be found in schools, which either enable or hinder children from learning all they can. This writing will briefly discuss teaching...

LOS ANGELES—GLAD, the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, Inc., will be hosting their annual World AIDS Day on December 3 at their Los Angeles location. GLAD hosts many deaf events throughout the year, but this one is special as there will be quilts brought in from the Deaf National AIDS Quilt collection. These quilts have been made to represent...

SACRAMENTO—On Thursday, September 18, the California Association of the Deaf will hold the ASL Celebration at the state capital. According to a flyer for the event, the ASL Celebration recognizes the “human right to sign language.”   According to the ASL Celebration website, the event will kick off at 9:00 a.m. with an A.M. Capitol Tour/Greetings to Senators followed by local...

LOS ANGELES—The Greater Los Angeles Agency for the Deaf (GLAD) will be hosting their 31st annual Children’s Holiday at Occidental College on Saturday, December 6 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. The event is for low income families with Deaf or hard of hearing children as well as CODAs under the age of 12. There will be a signing Santa, snacks, entertainment,...

NORTHRIDGE—California State University, Northridge will host a lecture on November 14 at the Kurland Lecture Hall next to the Valley Performing Arts Center. The speaker will be Mark Zaurov who will be lecturing on being Deaf during the Holocaust. Deaf people played a vital role in both WWI and WWII, working in factories and other jobs where their inability to hear was...

RIVERSIDE—On September 24, the Riverside Deaf Seniors will be celebrating "Deaf Awareness Day."   The event is meant for both deaf, hard of hearing and hearing audiences. The celebration can be beneficial to hearing attendees who wish to learn more about the deaf community and the deaf culture through the eight or more vendor booths that will be in attendance at...

WASHINGTON D.C.—Gallaudet University’s Theatre and Dance Program has launched a new play titled “Visible Language,” pitting Alexander Graham Bell against Edward Miner Gallaudet in a rendition of the cultural battle for Deaf Education in the 1890s. Bell, who was the inventor of the telephone, was also a supporter of Oralism, the practice of speaking and reading lips without the use...

MARINA DEL REY—On October 5, GLAD will be hosting their 12th Annual GLAD Benefit aboard the FantaSea One Yacht. The money raised at the benefit will allow GLAD to continue providing their services to the community.   According to their Facebook page, the “event reaches far and wide to circles of influence in political, business, entertainment and organizational arenas.” The benefit...

BEL AIR—Becoming deaf as a teenager who adored music wasn't easy...I think I would have accepted blindness if given a choice. Surely, my ears were my biggest gift of life but there was one person who seemed to suffer more than me... my mother. The first year was about seeing specialists, taking tests and getting opinions... 2nd… 3rd…4th…12th from basically...