An Ohio Taco Bell employee has reportedly been fired after he appeared to refuse to serve a hearing-impaired customer. Becky Rosemont Burch shared a now-viral video to her Facebook page on Jan. 2, showing her son, Brandon Washburn, attempting to order and communicate with employees by writing his order on his phone. The employees, however, refused […]

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City police officers who opened fire on a man in front of his home as he approached them holding a metal pipe didn’t hear witnesses yelling that he was deaf, a department official said Wednesday. Magdiel Sanchez, 35, wasn’t obeying the officers’ commands before one shot him with a gun […]

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Haben Girma is our new hero. The 27-year-old lawyer is the first deaf-blind alumna of Harvard Law School.

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A local FOX affiliate out of Birmingham, Alabama is reporting that two deaf men began arguing during a church service which lead to a stabbing. Church of the Reconciler‘s leader, Reverend Matt Lacey, told FOX-6, the two men fought by signing to one another, adding, that it escalated when one of the men picked up […]

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The Cochlear implant is a device that is surgically implanted into the ear to allow some degree of hearing in the hard of hearing and…