We spent our weekend touring historic Boston and immersed in one of the oldest settings in America. Walking along the Freedom Trail, we saw the destinations that shape Boston for what it is…

After meeting Austine School for the Deaf Principal Anne Potter, Williams Center Director Raymond Stevens, and Superintendent Robert Carter, I walked off the Brattleboro, Vermont campus confident that the futures of Deaf children rested in extremely good hands.

De’VIA (short for Deaf View/Image Art) was the art genre Schertz became fascinated in during her college years at the Art Institute of Boston.

The National Association for State Relay Administration (NASRA) held their annual conference in Lowell, Massachusetts, just this past week of September 16-19, at the DoubleTree Riverfront Hotel.

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a sprawling campus – founded over 175 years ago, the university sits on 1,300 acres of swampland, dotting its’ campus with brick buildings, and housing nearly 16,000 students.

“One in three women experience domestic violence of some sort,” Mary Mowl signed, a look of sadness crossing her face. Her hands fall softly on her lap, one on top of another.

NTID, well-known for its’ diverse d/Deaf and Hard-of-hearing student body, also boasts students from each state in the country. Photographing with them was Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz, President of NTID/Vice-President and Dean of RIT, and Dr. William Destler, RIT’s President.

Our very first morning of the Viable/DeafNation road trip kicked off with us taking our RV and truck through downtown Rochester, straight to the city’s school for the Deaf!

If you had told me one and half months ago that I would be going on an RV trip for seven weeks starting September 15th – I would have put good money down that you were telling Joke of the Year.

Autumn is nearly upon us, and the presidential campaigning season is in full swing. As Deaf Americans, it falls to us to understand what each ticket, Republican and Democratic, brings to us in terms of disabilities policy. This blog is a brief aggregation of each ticket’s political approach to disabilities, as indicated by their websites and public comments.

Viable will be hitching a ride on the DeafNation RV to travel across 7,500 miles of highway! Get more information on the DeafNation Road Trip and enjoy blogs, photos and video clips of visits to deaf schools, organizations and communities across the heartlands and mountains of America…

Sprint Relay and Lexington School for the Deaf are proud to announce DeafIdol in New York City! The event will be shown LIVE on internet by DeafNation.

ArrowCreek Country Club is a 36-hole Championship Golf facility with an exceptional design by famed course architects, Arnold Palmer, The Legend Golf Course and Fuzzy Zoeller and John Harbottle III, on The Challenge Golf Course.

On February 28-March 1, 2007, the nation’s video relay services providers hosted a Congressional Demonstration for United States Senators and Representatives to see how video relay services have made an impact upon Deaf individuals across the nation.

A tall guy, bespectacled with Oakley sunglasses mirroring the entire field, is standing peering through a Digital Canon camera heavily stocked with lenses that seemed to loom large like a bullhorn. He is wearing Khakis shorts with multiple pockets and he quickly takes out a special lenses wiper to polish the $15,000 Canon Camera before [...]

DeafNation-Sorenson VRS collaborated to do a Junior Golf event held in Mt. Airy, Maryland from June 26-28th, being very successful in hosting the National Deaf Junior Golf Classic benefiting the DeafNation Foundation. It was a first for DeafNation-Sorenson VRS, with 29 junior golfers signed up and taking part in the event which included golf seminars [...]

DeafNation did a daily coverage of widely acclaimed International cycling event, the 2006 World Deaf Cycling Championships. It was took place in the United States during the week of June 18-24, 2006. There were 12 nations and 35 Deaf elite riders particpated.
120km Road Race Race Results:
(View the article – “The 75-Mile Grueling Pescadero 120 km [...]

The World Deaf Cycling Championships closed spectacularly with a horde of International cyclists ready to start with the 120km race, only it was in foggy Pescadero instead of the drier, desert-like south bay area. It is a 75-mile long race for 2 1/2 laps through strong uphills at the end of each lap around the [...]

Try to imagine yourself as an East European cyclist accustomed to cycling in much cooler weather. That is exactly what Slovenkia cyclist Julius Matovcik, a 28 year old lone rider representing his country valiantly does daily back home.

Momentum was building, because there were only a couple more days of races left, and the Americans took the gold two times already. Italy’s Cucco had won one. Three down and three more to go. The elite cyclists weren’t done yet. They all came for their country’s pride and honor and to cycle in the [...]