Hearing Loss & Deafness Community - People

I am from the Republic of Palau in the southwest Pacific, http://www.visit-palau.com/ and have been a certified Reiki Master Teacher and practitioner since 1998. I volunteer with various online healing networks and am a current member of the World Wide Reiki Organization, www.wwro.org, the Chikara-Reiki-Do Masters Group, and a number of Yahoo healing groups: Divine Manifestation Energies, Drops...

I love to write. I am a big fan of blogs about hearing loss especially hearing loss in children. Both of my kids are deaf and wear cochlear implants.

I am an American Mom living in Tuscany. My twelve year old son Jordan was born profoundly deaf, wore hearing aids for eight years and currently wears a cochlear implant. My blog is the story of our journey. Co-Author of RALLY CAPS www.rallycaps.net

This DeafBlog focuses on cochlear and baha implants and the impact they have in helping both young and old to hear. We also cover topics that we hope will be of interest to all deaf people and the community as a whole.

A fresh look at special education law-mostly in understandable English. Jim Gerl is a consultant for a number of state education agencies, and he is a frequent speaker on special ed law topics. He has presented at many national and regional conferences, and he has given interviews for numerous publications. He's also a due process hearing officer and mediator for a number of states.

Deaf Community Activist

My name is laura Im from the united kingdomi have suffered from profound deafness since i was 8 years old and i had a cochlear implant at 9 yrs old i also have a condition called Multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions which means my energy genes dont work and i found out that it was why i woke up profoundly deaf at 8. I have a blog that tells you all about my history with cochlear implants and...

My name is Danielle I was born with sensorineural hearing loss due to unknown cause. I was raised by a hearing family. I was in special ed and speech classes my whole life. I know how to speech very well that you wouldnt even notice I was hearing impaired. I learned ASL 3 years ago in college because my hearing has dropped. I experienced Sudden Deafness Sept 2008 in my right ear which was my...

A Single Mom raising a special child and trying my best to balance real life with "what ifs". My life is full and often pretty crazy dealing with a Special Needs child and all that comes along with it, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Austin was born in Nov 2007 at 36 weeks. He was diagnosed with Branchio-Oto-Renal (Melnick-Fraser) syndrome. From Birth to 3 months he struggled...