Deaf Disc Golfers in the news!!

[Patrick Harris]

CHECK IT OUT!!

TWO DIFFERENT NEWSPAPERS!!

The Gardner News - local news for Athol, MA area (Flat Rock DGC)

Brattleboro Reformer - local news for Brattleboro, VT (Austine DGC)

CLICK HERE!!

[Patrick Harris]

Another deaf disc golf story in the paper again today!! Whoo Hoo!!

http://www.reformer.com/sports/ci_23440194/austine-hosts-first-deaf-disc-golf-championship

[Patrick Harris]

Another great news to post up!!

The first link is the article that has name errors of the school teams.

The second link has the correct names of the school teams.

1) http://www.reformer.com/Sports/ci_25945816/New-England-Deaf-Disc-Golf-

2) http://www.reformer.com/Sports/ci_25952909/ASD-repeats-as-disc-golf-champs

Will try to post up scanned printed newspaper that has more photos to it.

[Titan_Bariloni]

at the Special O event many many deaf athletes all loving DG
great things were said about the club,austine and attleboro seems to be a hot spot for players

question and not to be politically incorrect but to compete in the Special Olympics does being deaf qualify or does there need to be another qualifing factor as well? was confused

but next year could use ya or someone from the club as communicating we were at the mercy of the guardians

good stuff on the articles for your club,DG,flatrock and my local area

thanks!!!

[Patrick Harris]

question and not to be politically incorrect but to compete in the Special Olympics does being deaf qualify or does there need to be another qualifing factor as well? was confused

but next year could use ya or someone from the club as communicating we were at the mercy of the guardians

Well, we do have annual Deaf National Disc Golf Championship since 2000 that are mostly Deaf players who use sign language as their primary mode of communication to compete.

As for Special Olympics, yes, being Deaf WITH additional disabilities (developmental or physical) can be qualified for it.

A "normal" Deaf person wouldn't want to compete in Special Olympics but rather to compete in Deaflympics instead.

http://www.deaflympics.com/

Perhaps, I could ask my club to send someone to your event next year to help out on communication needs.

[Titan_Bariloni]

thanks for the info
and yes next year that would be awesome!~!

did not know they had a deaf olympics..cool..makes sense though

have you ever been to that school in attleboro? or have any conncetions there?

have they tried worl war 1 park? might be good for them to link up