Toronto, ON - The CHS Board of Directors thanks Kelly Duffin, CHS’s esteemed former President and CEO (2003 – 2009) for her valuable contribution to CHS and wishes her the very best in the next chapter of her life.

TORONTO, Dec. 3 /CNW/ - The Canadian Hearing Society (CHS) has received a $191,600 grant from The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) to create web content in American Sign Language (ASL) and la langue des signes québécoise (LSQ).

Toronto, ON – The Canadian Hearing Society (CHS) announced today that it will prioritize government funding for visual alarms and emergency notification systems for Ontarians who are culturally Deaf, oral deaf, deafened, and hard of hearing in its 2008 advocacy agenda.

Toronto, ON – Today, on the UN International Day of Disabled Persons, The Canadian Hearing Society (CHS) will release its position paper on Discrimination and Audism.  “Like people with any disability, Canadians who are Deaf or have a form of hearing loss continue to experience discrimination,” said Gary Malkowski, CHS Special Advisor to the President, Public Affairs. “It is happening not only in the workplace but even when accessing vital services the rest of us take for granted such as education, health care, and housing.”