I had dinner with my cousin, Paul, the other day. Paul was in town to receive a huge diversity award from the Department of Defense. Did I mention Paul is deaf?

We were talking at dinner about the Baltimore/Washington community – how filled with deaf professionals it is here. And about the cool new website DeafMD “an innovative website providing accurate, concise, and valuable health information in American Sign Language to the Deaf & Hard of Hearing population.” I am proud to say that I brought this site to his attention.

Paul was saying that where he lives now, in Eastern Washington state, there are few deaf medical or other professional practictioners to choose from – though he does have a deaf dentist.

It made me wonder about the deaf population in the United States. Where are the clusters? Stats. Give me stats! And then, I found this repository from Gallaudet (where Paul’s wife attended, by the way…)

Demographics

Just thought I’d share.