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'Shadow' performers bring art to the deaf in Rochester Civic's 'Miracle Worker'

Rebecca Sands, right, as teacher Anne Sullivan, first meets Hellen Keller, played by Max Goihl, in rehearsal of a scene from Rochester Civic Theatre's "The Miracle Worker" April 12, 2023. The Civic's ...
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Rochester Public Schools proposes phasing out Latin, introducing American Sign Language

ROCHESTER — Starting next year, students in Rochester Public Schools likely won’t be able to start studying Latin, but may be able to take American Sign Language. Those changes are part of a proposal ...
AOL

Rochester Red Wings will honor city's deaf culture with ASL uniforms

It’s not uncommon in Rochester, New York, to begin speaking to a stranger and have them reply in American Sign Language (ASL). The city has been referred to as having the nation’s highest per capita ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

RIT to digitize rare videos about ASL poetry and literature

Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf will digitize and make publicly accessible more than 60 videotapes held in the RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive that document ...
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Monroe County forming Deaf Equity Council

Rochester, N.Y. — Monroe County Executive Adam Bello and Rochester Mayor Malik Evans announced Monday the creation of the Monroe County Deaf Equity Council. The organization will "advise, advocate, ...