Ashley Beghtel advocates deaf culture by sharing her own life experience
Miss Deaf America is an ambassador, a spokeswoman and a role model. Next year, she may also be a University alumna.
Next summer, Ashley Beghtel, a senior in the College of Education’s Family and Human Services program, will represent Oregon at the biennial national competition in [...]
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Raped deaf teenager pregnant, police say
Posted in Deaf Women, Mass Media on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bacolod, Philipphines, 18 September, 2007-The police yesterday said they may seek the help of a psychiatrist in the case of a 16-year-old girl, who is deaf and unable to speak, who was reportedly raped by her father and is now pregnant in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental.
Kabankalan City police commander, Chief Inspector Calixto Mabugat told the [...]
Fred had to hide to avoid being sent to deaf school
Posted in Deaf Women, Deaf news, Mass Media on September 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sunderland-15 September 2007-A deaf-mute man whose parents hid him so the authorities couldn’t send him away is celebrating his 90th birthday.
When Fred was young, education bosses decided the best place for him was a boarding school 200 miles from home.
But his parents, James and Elizabeth, were adamant no one was going to send their little [...]
Deaf woman sexually assaulted
Posted in Deaf Women, Mass Media on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
PHILADELPHIA, USA-September 13, 2007-A deaf woman was raped last week in Bensalem, police said Wednesday.
The victim, a Philadelphia woman in her 30s, was walking from Wal-Mart on Horizon Boulevard to a bus stop when she was approached from behind last Thursday at about 8:55 p.m., police said. The assailant dragged her to a construction area [...]


