Growing Deaf-Owned Businesses In Austin

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AUSTIN, Texas -- The number of Deaf-owned businesses in the country is growing, and Austin is leading the pack.

Convo, a Deaf-owned telecommunications provider, reports there are more than 200 Deaf-owned businesses in the country, and counting. In the Austin-area there are 30 Deaf-owned businesses.

One of them is Silent Automotive, an auto shop that provides services to both Deaf and Hearing customers. The owners pride themselves on integrity, honesty and quality of service.

“Sound is caused by vibrations, sound doesn’t come out of its own. So we go to the car and feel the vibrations,” said part-owner, Joel DeChristofaro. “We have to be hands on and find exactly where the sound is coming from. Does take a little more time I assume, but I feel it gives us a clearer picture of what happens with the car.” Danny Blalock first started the business back in 2008.

“Because of communication. A lot of my [Deaf] friends have had bad experiences at auto shops, they felt they were getting ripped off,” said Blalock. “Our goal for our business is to keep growing; we’d like to hire more mechanics, Deaf mechanics, to give them opportunity to grow their resume.”

Blalock says the Deaf community continues to grow in Austin, Texas and is becoming more friendly for the Deaf community.

SOURCE - KXAN

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Deaf Population Boom In Rochester, New York

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ROCHESTER, New York -- It's well known that Rochester has a large Deaf and hard of hearing community.

While the community is large, the job prospects for the Deaf and hard of hearing are not. What can the business community in Rochester do to reverse the talent drain?

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Density of Deaf People Worldwide Version HD.

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The slightly lame cloud effect is simple fractal noise on a background layer, with feathered masking to contain it. Also 3D'd the text boxes.

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Rochester's Deaf Population Among Largest Per Capita In United States

New York's Deaf population among largest per capital in United States.

ROCHESTER, New York -- Rochester has more Deaf and Hard of Hearing residents per capita than the national average and a larger Deaf population than many other similarly sized cities, a new report out of Rochester Institute of Technology has found.

Rochester’s sizable Deaf community has often been assumed but was never quantified until the report, written by Gerard Walter and Richard Dirmyer from RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

The study found other cities have more total Deaf residents per capita, but among college and working aged people, Rochester has one of the largest populations in the country. In particular, the study found Rochester has far and away the highest percentage of Deaf residents enrolled in secondary education, likely driven by NTID.

“Often times it’s difficult to understand how many people are really in the community,” said Thomas Pearson, director of the National Center for Deaf Health Research at the University of Rochester. “This has been a real challenge for anyone interested in the field.”

Using American Community Survey data, Walter and Dirmyer found there are 43,000 Deaf or Hard of Hearing residents in the Rochester metro area, about 3.7 percent of the population. That’s higher than the national average, which is 3.5 percent.

Rochester doesn’t have the highest population per capita as is often suggested, however. The report only looked at a handful of cities, but found 3.9 percent of Pittsburgh’s population is Deaf or Hard of Hearing. The authors of the report attribute that to more elderly residents living in Pittsburgh than in Rochester, and the onset of age-related deafness... Read The Full Story.

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Deaf Population Growth In A Small Village

Deaf population growth rapidly in a small village in Israel.

AL-SAYYID, Israel -- In the picturesque Israeli Negev desert lies the Bedouin Village of El-Sayed. Though it may seem like just another of the "unrecognised villages" in these sandy plains, something sets the place apart: it has the largest percentage of Deaf people in the world.

Across generations, a unique sign language has evolved to become the most popular language in this fringe society that accepts deafness as naturally as life itself. The village's tranquillity is disturbed when Salim decides to change his Deaf son's fate using a cochlear Implant.

Two hundred years ago, Sheik El-Sayed arrived at the Negev desert in the south of Israel. The Sheik was Bedouin, a Muslim-Arab tribe of herders which had been walking the deserts of Arabia with their families and flock for centuries. Sheik El-Sayed was unique: he was Deaf, and his deafness was genetically passed on to his sons, grandsons and great-grandsons.

Today, El-Sayed village has the largest percentage of Deaf people in the world, still, hearing aids aren't prevalent; for the people of El-Sayed, deafness is not a handicap. Over generations, a unique "El-Sayed" Sign Language has evolved making it the most popular communication method amongst Deaf and Hearing.

The tranquillity of the village is interrupted by Salim, father of the little boy, Muhammad, who has come to the decision to dramatically change his deaf son's fate using the advanced medical process called the 'Cochlear Implant Operation'.

Salim's decision is evoking great conflict and threatening the village's tradition of coexistence between Deaf and Hearing. This rare coexistence has created a society that accepts deafness as natural as life itself, making the viewer wonder about the discrimination of disabled people in the so-called "advanced" modern world.

"Voices from El-Sayed" follows the year-long frustrating rehabilitation progress of Muhammad through the point of view of the Deaf Community of the village and offers us intimate cinematic dialogue with these marvellous people.

Original title: Voices from El Sayed (Oded Adomi Leshem, 2008)
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