canada Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/canada/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png canada Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/canada/ 32 32 Real-Time Texting: FCC Announces New Communication for Deaf and Hard of Hearing https://deafniche.com/fcc-announces-new-communication-deaf-hard-hearing/ https://deafniche.com/fcc-announces-new-communication-deaf-hard-hearing/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:57:38 +0000 http://deafniche.com/?p=9686 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that starting December 2017 the TTY will be gone. Instead of the TTY, Real Time Texting (RTT) will be put in place. The FCC recognized that an overwhelming number of deaf and hard of hearing use cell phones to communicate with families and friends. With this recognition and […]

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]]> https://deafniche.com/fcc-announces-new-communication-deaf-hard-hearing/feed/ 1 Canada Denies Filipina Residency Because Her Daughter is Deaf https://deafniche.com/canada-denies-filipina-daughter-deaf/ Sun, 01 May 2016 09:50:44 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=9052 Canada’s government stated “it would have been a burden on the government’s funding for special education.” A mom came to Canada in 2007 to participate in the Canadian Caregiver Program with the dream of giving her deaf daughter a better life. The Canadian Caregiver Program hired many foreign workers to help with live-in care services […]

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]]> Native Americans and Sign Language https://deafniche.com/did-you-know-native-american/ Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:34:46 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=8841 Native Americans needed it for communication back then! Originally the Native Americans developed sign language to use with other tribes because they each spoke a different language. The sign language system became very useful for communicating with the new European settlers. Communication was important for trading and survival, they developed a sign language that was […]

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