Wyatte Hall Joins Congressional Briefing on Language Access for Deaf Children
Wyatte Hall, Ph.D., the first graduate of the UR CTSI-supported Rochester Postdoc Partnership, took part in a congressional briefing on February 22 to advocate for earlier and better language access for deaf children.
Continued CDC-Funding Allows Deaf Health Research to Expand Beyond Rochester
With renewed funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the UR CTSI’s National Center for Deaf Health Research will expand its programming to Buffalo and Syracuse.
DEAF ROC: Building Collaborations between Deaf and Hearing Scientists
The second biennial DEAF ROC conference, held at URMC this August, brought together Deaf and hearing scientists to help them navigate and build collaborations.
Understanding Health Needs of the Deaf Community: New York State Deaf Health Survey
The Rochester Prevention Research Center (RPRC) and National Center for Deaf Health Research (NCDHR) have launched the third round of their Deaf Health Survey, a culturally and linguistically accessible health survey that was designed by Deaf people for Deaf people. The survey, which was previously released in 2008 and 2013 to the Rochester Deaf community, will be available across New York state for the first time this year.
UR and RIT Host One of the Largest Groups of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Scientists in US
Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals are vastly under-represented in biomedical fields, making networking and mentorship difficult. URMC and RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf sought to remedy this by bringing together Deaf and hard-of-hearing scientists at all career levels at the first ever Rochester Summer Research Training Institute.