Test Dates for the Oklahoma QAST Evaluation

Survey for hard of hearing or deaf tax payers.

The purpose of this survey is to gain insights from the deaf and hard of hearing taxpaying population to assess their ability to access the IRS to resolve their federal tax concerns. This survey is being conducted by NOVAD Management Consulting, LLC, a consulting firm in Landover, MD.

The abbey had installed a wire called a hearing loop or induction loop, which transmits sound via a magnetic signal to the telecoil in a hearing aid or cochlear implant. Once switched on, that telecoil acts as a personal wireless loudspeaker for the listener. Sixty-nine percent of new hearing aid models contain telecoils. Click Read More to view the demo and access the NPR website.

Hearing-impaired patrons of Tulsa International Airport now have free access to a video phone, allowing them to communicate via sign language or lip reading.

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A national test of the Emergency Alert System will be conducted tomorrow, Nov. 9, at 2 p.m. EST, via television, by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). THIS IS ONLY A TEST. IT IS NOT A REAL EMERGENCY. The test is being done to determine the effectiveness of the current Emergency Alert System and make improvements to the system to prepare for actual emergencies in the future.

An audio announcement will be made that the alert is only a test. However, the system may fail to visually notify deaf viewers that the alert is only a test due to limitations of the system's video and/or text capabilities. Please notify your friends and family in the deaf community that the alert is only a test and that no action is necessary.

To learn more about the test, you can view an informative video from FEMA in American Sign Language with captioning here: http://www.fema.gov/medialibrary/media_records/6407.

Arizona Theatre Company welcomes the lighthearted new musical Daddy Long Legs

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Caesar Renti: “I’ll never forget going down to Hartshorne to meet his parents for the first time, and he had me doing sign language (his parents were deaf) in about 20 minutes.

New rules leave Iowa's deaf students without help Strict state licensing standards mean some districts can’t find interpreters.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS — The roar of the crowd isn't the only high school football sensation these players at the Oklahoma School for the Deaf don't get to experience.

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