Below are some facts about James Caverly, who already has a number of acting credits. He was born on this day (Jun 16) in 1989. Born deaf on June 16, 1989 in Royal Oak, Michigan “I am close to profoundly deaf, but I don’t use that term … it’s a medical term. I prefer to use ‘Deaf’ since it’s more of an identity nomenclature than a medical one.” His parents and two younger brothers are hearing, but he has a sister who is deaf His entire family uses ASL He attended a hearing pu

Karen Alkoby became the first deaf woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in computer science on this date (June 15) in 2008. She graduated from Chicago's DePaul University, helping to pioneer a computer-animated dictionary. Alkoby’s dissertation involved determining how the human brain interprets shapes like those made by hands in ASL. This may help with the creation of an ASL-to-English dictionary. She now teaches computer science at Gallaudet University. Read more about her acc