Chicago Hearing Society

09/26/2025

Continuing our Deaf Awareness Month series with some history about the celebrations, communication growth, and more!

09/25/2025

Thank you IEJF for your continued support and dedication to our work serving the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing communities. Your partnership allows us to provide information in ASL that we would otherwise not be able to do. On behalf of our clients and staff, thank you! And thank you for the highlight in your September newsletter (below).

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09/24/2025

CHS is proud to be celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month! Each year, Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th-October 15th. We encourage you to learn, listen, and celebrate this important month! Read more about some of the history and statistics in this post.

09/15/2025

Continuing our Deaf Awareness Month series with the topic for this week "How can you be a better ally to the Deaf community?"

Through simple actions, we can work together to make the world more inclusive for this community!

09/15/2025

So proud of the work we've been doing on "Caption with Intention...a joint initiative between the Chicago office of the global creative marketing powerhouse FCB, the Chicago Hearing Society and LA-based film production outfit Rakish Entertainment. At its core, Caption with Intention is a novel captioning design system which aims to significantly augment several critical points of failure within traditional captioning by overlaying animation, color and variable typography to bring the text to life."

Read more in Forbes: https://lnkd.in/eeegfUrv

09/12/2025

Don't miss our next Pop up Youth ASL Class! This class will cover topics relating to fall and Halloween. Classes are offered on Zoom each month and are $25 per session. You can register on the CHS website-we hope to see you there!

09/09/2025

September is Deaf Awareness Month!
To celebrate, we will have a different topic each week that we learn about.
We look forward to sharing more resources and facts throughout the month, and hope you can learn something from it!

09/04/2025

Join CHS for our Fall Pickleball Fundraiser! Transcript in Comments.

For more information contact Karen at KAguilar@anixter.org or visit the CHS web site (ChicagoHearingSociety.org).

https://youtu.be/CZQwwrNvVhE

09/04/2025

Deaf Inclusive Night at Wrigley Field on Tuesday was a huge success! From the anthem performance, 7th inning stretch in ASL, and fun with everyone!

We already cannot wait for the next one-you won't want to miss it!

09/04/2025

JOIN US at the CHS Pickleball Fundraiser on October 26th, from 1:00-4:00 PM!
Be a player, sponsor, or just to gather with friends, for “Raise Your Paddle for CHS”. While “Raise Your Paddle for CHS” will be an exceptionally fun evening, it is also an evening that will change lives.

Thanks to you and the money raised at this event, CHS can continue to provide domestic violence counseling, mentoring to families with Deaf children, hearing aids for those with low income, early literacy programming and so much more.

09/03/2025

Deaf Night at Wrigley! Around 900 tickets sold, beautiful weather, 2 youth performed the anthem and we still have the 7th inning stretch in ASL. Amazing evening! Go Cubs Go!