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Maine's close-knit community of deaf and hard of hearing people is grieving in the wake of the Lewiston shootings that killed beloved members, many of whom were ardent advocates. The shootings ...
The Governor Baxter School for the Deaf (GBSD), formerly known as the Maine School for the Deaf is a public co-educational school that serves the deaf and hard-of-hearing in the State of Maine. It is located on Mackworth Island , an approximately 100-acre (40 ha) island in Falmouth, Maine , USA, adjacent to its border with Portland, Maine .
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is an organization for the promotion of the rights of deaf people in the United States. NAD was founded in Cincinnati , Ohio, in 1880 as a non-profit organization run by Deaf people to advocate for deaf rights, its first president being Robert P. McGregor of Ohio.
The Maine AFL-CIO – a state federation of over 160 local labor unions – announced that Brewer-Ross, one of its members, was among those killed. He worked at a pipe shop in Bath Iron Works (BIW)
From 1927 to present, 23 schools were members of ESDAA. Only 17 schools remains today. Ohio School for the Deaf, which joined in 2015, is the new and most-recently added member. Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind rejoined the conference in 2021. Current member schools: American School for the Deaf (West Hartford, Connecticut)
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National Association of the Deaf (United States) National Black Deaf Advocates; National Captioning Institute; National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management; National Center on Deafness; National Deaf Life Museum; National Fraternal Society for the Deaf; National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; National Theatre ...
LEWISTON, Maine — Central Maine's tight-knit deaf community was hit particularly hard by last week’s mass shootings.. After a gunman opened fire at a bowling alley, he next took aim at ...