Tacoma bars, restaurants to be required to provide TV closed captioning or face fines
a Tacoma bars, restaurants and other venues open to the public soon could face hefty fines if they don’t have closed-captioning permanently activated on their televisions. The city of Tacoma is implementing a fee structure to boost compliance of closed captioning on...
Bloomington high schools offer sign language as foreign language: ‘I don’t allow voices in class’
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Which foreign language class did you take in high school? Was it Spanish, French, German–something else? The Monroe County Community School Corporation has added a new option for its students that teachers are calling life changing and the skills...
New group to help determine how the School for the Deaf can better help kids
South Dakota’s deaf and hard of hearing children will get a shot at pushing for better access to education across the state thanks to a new advisory council for the South Dakota School for the Deaf. But the new council also brings up concerns from the deaf and...
UT student who’s deaf has trike stolen from outside dorm
AUSTIN (KXAN) — When 18-year-old Madilyn Lawrence headed home from campus for Thanksgiving break, she left her trike parked on the rack outside her UT dorm. When she returned the following weekend, the trike was gone. It appeared someone cut through her cable lock,...