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Deaf Filipino Artist Wows People With Nails

Deaf Niche — Sun, 29 May 2016 04:08:05 +0000

Check out amazing nail art by this Filipino artist! Joey Felipe is a deaf artist in the Philippines-he creates art from nails and string. Carefully planning of the image and positioning of the nails are what make the art. He also works with other mediums too, not just nails as seen in the video. He […]

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Nyle DiMarco for People Magazine

Deaf Niche — Sat, 28 May 2016 08:59:53 +0000

Check it out, People Magazine did a spot on the latest winner of Dancing With the Stars! Nyle DiMarco, the deaf model who won both America’s Next Top Model and Dancing With the Stars did an interview spot with the popular celebrity magazine People Magazine. Here, you can see him talk about his feeling on […]

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Remembering: And Your Name Is Jonah

Deaf Niche — Sun, 22 May 2016 06:50:14 +0000

This movie came out shortly after American Sign Language was recognized as an official language in the United States And Your Name Is Jonah is a movie made in 1979 about a deaf boy who was mistakenly diagnosed as mentally challenged. He grew up in a hospital until his mother figured out that he was […]

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Dying Hawaiian Sign Language is Preserved by Few

Deaf Niche — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 06:17:15 +0000

Hawai’i’s Sign Language is dying as ASL takes over For captions, turn on the captions feature on the video. Hawaii has a slowly diminishing Deaf population that still uses Sign Language that is different from ASL. Only the seniors using it are few now. None of the younger generations are learning it along with ASL, […]

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Chick-fil-A cashier uses Sign Language

Deaf Niche — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:29:43 +0000

A young lady ordered her first meal without feeling uncomfortable thanks to the cashier In Fayetteville, North Carolina a young woman was never comfortable with ordering food. She says when she starts signing, people stare and it makes her very uncomfortable. Her parents have done the ordering for her, until they went into Chick-fil-A and […]

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Did you know that the inventor of the telephone was a CODA and husband to a deaf woman?

Deaf Niche — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:10:25 +0000

Did you know… the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, was a CODA and husband to a Deaf woman, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard. Alexander Graham Bell is most famous for his invention of the telephone, he created the concept and function. Thomas Edison refined the design into the modern phone, from which all phones […]

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