TRI-CO CONFERENCE TO ADDRESS ISSUES OF DEAFNESS

Performers and artists will join academics and activists at "Signs and Voices: Language, Arts and Identity from Deaf to Hearing," a conference to be held at Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges Nov. 11-14.

The conference will address matters of concern to people who are deaf or have hearing loss and to anyone who works with deaf people, as well as to the general public. There will be presentations and panel discussions on education, neurobiology, civil rights and cochlear implants, among other topics. Comedy routines, poetry, dancing and a storytelling workshop will also be included.

"Signs and Voices" is free and open to the public. Sign-language interpreters will be provided, and children may participate in arts-and-crafts activities during the academic presentations and the panels. Teachers and certified interpreters can earn continuing-education credits for attending. 

For a complete schedule and registration information, please visit the Web site at http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/dnapoli1/
Signs-Voices.html.

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