english Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/english/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png english Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/english/ 32 32 US Postal Stamp Honors An Accomplished Deaf Educator https://deafniche.com/us-postal-stamp-honors-accomplished-deaf-educator/ Sat, 10 Dec 2016 11:19:38 +0000 http://deafniche.com/?p=9593 The United States Postal Service announced the new commemoration stamps for 2017, honoring individuals who have done outstanding civil work. One of the honored is the Deaf educator Robert Panara. Panara was born hearing and at the age of 10 he fell ill with meningitis and became deaf. Panara actually considered this to be a […]

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]]> Sound Shirt – German Symphony Hall Tests New Device for Deaf https://deafniche.com/german-symphony-hall-tests-new-device-deaf/ Sun, 01 May 2016 10:23:40 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=9059 and it’s called the Sound Shirt In Hamburg, Germany, a new device for the Deaf was tested. It’s the Sound Shirt; when worn, the wearer can feel the vibrations amplified from the music being played in the orchestra. The Junge Symphoniker Hamburg lent their music prowess to test the shirt with a small group of […]

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]]> Did you know James “Deaf” Burke is in the Boxing Hall of Fame for being the first British boxer to fight in the USA? https://deafniche.com/deafburke/ Sun, 20 Mar 2016 08:13:23 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=8996 People said that he was deaf because sound was too scared to go near him! James “Deaf” Burke was born deaf and all his life was a humble laborer in London, training in his free time. He became so strong that the champion at the time, Jem Ward, refused to fight him out of fear […]

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