The PBS Newshour ran this piece yesterday about a Deaf school with a championship football team, and they interviewed someone who says that Deaf people have better peripheral vision than hearing people. I was a guinea pig for that experiment! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
In 2021, the football team at the California School for the Deaf made it to the state championship but suffered a disappointing loss. In 2022 and 2023, they made it back and won. A new book chronicles...
I was a grad student at RIT, which is attached to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. I got $10 to be sealed into a capsule with electrodes on my head and lights flashing in my periphery. That's also when I realized I was claustrophobic. Still, it's cool to be a small part of history.