- Experts Guide
- Graphic Standards & Visual Identity
- News Releases
- NIU in the News
- Northern Today
- Resources for
Campus Communicators - Web Presence Project
- Contact Us
- Public Affairs Home
News Release
Contact: Maggie Cormier, Dept. of Communicative Disorders
(815) 753-6527
October 23, 2003
NIU announces Deaf Awareness Week
November 3-7, 2003
DE KALB – Northern Illinois University will celebrate Deaf Awareness Week, “Connecting with the Deaf Community: Priceless,” with a variety of educational and entertainment events for hearing, hard of hearing and deaf people.
NIU events are free and open to all. Sign Language/Voice Interpreters are provided. For more information, call 753-6527 V/TTY or (815) 753-1694 V/TTY or e-mail mcormier@niu.edu or jmontag@niu.edu
Deaf Awareness Week events include the following:
Monday, Nov. 3, 2003
Connecting with the Deaf Community
Carl Sandburg Auditorium, Holmes Student Center, 7 p.m.
Connecting within the community is very important to Donald Tinsley, founder of Indiana’s Black Deaf Advocates, assistant director of Indiana State Deaf Services, and ordained minister. Gain priceless insight from this invaluable role model in making connections and gaining community.
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2003
Survivor: Deaf Island
Heritage Room, Holmes Student Center, 7 p.m.
Survive an evening immersed in a deaf paradise run by “connected” members of the Deaf community, and learn the different strategies of communication used by the Deaf community for daily activities of living. Find out for yourself how priceless it is to connect with your Deaf neighbors!
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2003
Priceless Sign Sync
Carl Sandburg Auditorium, Holmes Student Center, 9 p.m.
Learn how the Deaf community connects with the world of music. Sit back and appreciate the song interpretations via sign language performed by NIU students, faculty and staff and Program for Hearing Impaired students and staff.
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003
Panel Discussion: What’s Your Connection?
Heritage Room, Holmes Student Center, 7 p.m.
Share in the panelists’ stories, ask questions and find out their connections to the Deaf community and how priceless these connections are. In this talk-show host moderated panel discussion, a variety of members with connections to the Deaf community will help you find out where connections occur, how they happen and ways you can make a connection that is priceless.
Friday, Nov. 7, 2003
Making a Connection within the Community: Open-Captioned Movie
DeKalb Market Square Cinemas, 7 p.m. showing
See how your own community reaches out to the Deaf community. Let’s show our support for accessibility at the movie theaters. Specific movie and admission cost information may be obtained by calling the DeKalb Market Square Cinemas at (815) 748-7887.
Sponsors of Deaf Awareness Week include the NIU Center for Access-Ability Resources, Dept. of Communicative Disorders, DeafPRIDE, Dept. of Literacy Education-Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Illinois Teachers of Hard of Hearing/Deaf Individuals, Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities, Program for Hearing Impaired, RAMP Center for Independent Living and Unity in Diversity Steering Committee.
#####