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Deaf Candy Store Owner Shares Sweet Journey to Success – Alexander Graham Bell Association
Candyverse is the pride and joy of 29-year-old Andres, a deaf adult who is conquering the candy market via social media.
Award-winning cinematographer Kimby Caplan shares her journey leveraging her hearing loss into an advantage in the movie industry.
Award-winning cinematographer Kimby Caplan shares her journey leveraging her hearing loss into an advantage in the movie industry.
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STEMM-HEAR supports college-aged students with hearing loss and provides mentorship to encourage them in their fields of study.
From LOFTee to AG Bell Staff
Until high school, Emerson Henry had never met someone else with hearing loss. After LOFT, she joined AG Bell as a member and has become one of its newest staff!
Meet Valerie Lew: 2024 Doreen Pollack LSLS Cert. AVT Scholar
AG Bell congratulates Valerie Lew, MA, CCC-SLP, on receiving the 2024 Doreen Pollack LSLS Cert. AVT Scholarship. Valerie is a pediatric speech-language pathologist at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She has worked at UCLA in outpatient clinic and inpatient acute hospital settings for the past nine years. She is also the lead speech pathologist on the UCLA Cochlear Implant Team.
Congratulations to Tina Gonzalez, the 2024 AG Bell AVEd Scholar.
AG Bell is pleased to award Tina Gonzalez, M.Ed., the 2024 AG Bell AVEd Scholarship. She is a classroom teacher in a Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) program for pre-K students ages 3-5 at Quest Elementary in Melbourne, FL.
LOFT Showed Her She Could Pursue Her Dream
From LOFT to LSLS, Laney’s dream of being an auditory-verbal therapist has come full circle.
Earth and Water: Theo’s Story
Theo and Lucana Hirschfield are a talented sibling duo who also happen to be deaf. This is Theo’s story.
Earth and Water: Lucana’s Story
Theo and Lucana Hirschfield are a talented sibling duo who also happen to be deaf. This is Lucana’s story.
Meet Son A Chang, the First LSL Specialist in South Korea
Son A Chang, PhD, LSLS Cert. AVT, is the first certified Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (LSL Specialist) in South Korea.
Meet Han Hui Hee, the First LSL Specialist in East Malaysia
Han Hui Hee is the first certified Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (LSLS) in East Malaysia and works in the Malaysian Civil Service.
Why LGBTQ+ Education Needs to Start Before High School
No one is too young to know who they are. Why LGBTQ+ education needs to start earlier.
Ken Levinson, Not Just About the Laughs
Did you know that AG Bell’s current president is also a longtime AG Bell supporter with a rich history of advocacy? Read on.
Providing bilingual LSL services to Spanish and English speaking families
Latinx children who are deaf or hard of hearing who grow up in homes where the primary language is not English may face additional challenges in English speaking countries. How can hearing health professionals best support these children while centering their needs?
October Will Never Be the Same
October will never be the same now that I’m a breast cancer survivor.