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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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Association of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA) is an organization for people who become deaf after childhood. ALDA was founded in 1987 by Bill Graham and Kathie Hering of Chicago , Illinois . [ 1 ] Within a few years, the organization had chapters in over 15 regions across the United States .
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)
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)