Protecting the deaf</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Protecting the deaf"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Protecting,the,deaf"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">06-04-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Protecting the deaf</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Oregon, USA (The Register Guard): Seattle has become the first city in the USA to begin building apartments specifically designed for deaf and deaf-blind women overcoming domestic violence. <br>The effort began 19 years ago in Marilyn Smith's basement. A therapist, Smith founded Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services after a man killed his deaf wife during a domestic dispute in Seattle. The victim, said Smith, who is deaf herself, had tried to escape and seek help but was turned away because service providers were unable to understand her needs - much less answer them. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/04/05/d6.deafapartments.0402.html " target="blank">www.registerguard.com/news/2005/04/05/d6.deafapartments.0402.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show