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		<title>Deaf Derby actress Emily Howlett aims for the top</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acting is a hard enough profession under normal circumstances but when you&#8217;re profoundly deaf as well, the obstacles are even higher. However this hasn&#8217;t stopped Mickleover&#8217;s Emily Howlett pursuing this most competitive of careers. The 26-year-old has been deaf since the age of four but has already forged a successful career as a horse groomer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009 Jul 26, 2010: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by roll call vote. The vote was held under a suspension of the rules to cut debate short and pass the bill, needing a two-thirds majority. This usually occurs for non-controversial legislation. The totals were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deafvillage.co.uk/deaf-law/twenty-first-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-of-2009</link>
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		<title>NTIA Gives Broadband Grant to Group for Deaf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NTIA Gives Broadband Grant to Group for Deaf The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded a US$15 million broadband grant to Communication Service for the Deaf, a nonprofit focused on providing deaf and hard-of-hearing U.S. residents with communications services&#8230;.Read More]]></description>
		<link>http://deafvillage.co.uk/super-company/ntia-gives-broadband-grant-to-group-for-deaf</link>
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		<title>Stop stonewalling Deaf Jurors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stop stonewalling Deaf Jurors When I received a jury summons a few years ago, I opened it up excitedly, conjuring up scenarios casting myself as a female version of Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men, heroically leading my jury through society&#8217;s murky prejudices to deliver a landmark decision and liberating an innocent in the process. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deafvillage.co.uk/deaf-justice/stop-stonewalling-deaf-jurors</link>
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		<title>Deaf inmate says fingerprint proves his innocence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deaf inmate says fingerprint proves his innocence DALLAS — Through a sign-language interpreter at the Dallas County Jail, Stephen Brodie cops to all sorts of crimes save the one that put him behind bars for 10 years: sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl. He insists he is innocent, and there&#8217;s support for his claim. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deaf man died in Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deaf man died in Afghanistan Shum Khan, a man both deaf and unable to speak, lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7,000ft up in the mountains. When a heavily armed squad from the CIA barrelled into his village in March 2007, the war logs record that he &#8220;ran at the sight of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Parkinson: The deaf are discriminated against</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Parkinson: The deaf are discriminated against Michael Parkinson is still haunted by the isolation experienced by his grandparents, who were both profoundly deaf. The chat-show host says we must all do more to help the hard of hearing. As a boy growing up in a South Yorkshire pit village, Michael Parkinson would sit and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deafvillage.co.uk/news/michael-parkinson-the-deaf-are-discriminated-against</link>
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		<title>International Congress on Education of the Deaf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NAD Letter to 21st International Congress on Education of the Deaf NAD President Bobbie Beth Scoggins sent a letter to the 21st International Congress on Education of the Deaf urging them to recognize sign language as a civil, human and linguistic right.]]></description>
		<link>http://deafvillage.co.uk/news/international-congress-on-education-of-the-deaf</link>
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		<title>$50K Reward Offered To Help Find Coach&#8217;s Killer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$50K Reward Offered To Help Find Coach&#8217;s Killer Officials announced a $50,000 reward Tuesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who killed a Fairfax High School basketball coach in January. Eddy Hernandez, 30, was a coach for a team of deaf students. Hernandez, who was also deaf, was walking in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deafvillage.co.uk/shocking-news/50k-reward-offered-to-help-find-coachs-killer</link>
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		<title>Deaf patients sue Jacksonville hospital over lack of interpreters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deaf patients sue Jacksonville hospital over lack of interpreters Seven hearing-impaired patients say Baptist Health violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. One deaf hospital patient in Jacksonville Beach said she was given a stuffed monkey instead of the sign-language interpreter she requested for hours. Feeling isolated, she finally asked nurses for something to hold. Another [...]]]></description>
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