More than 90 percent of deaf children in the U.S. are born to hearing parents. For them, the path forward can be difficult and also controversial. The advent of cochlear implant technology has the ...

Hazel Joel, 25, from Sheffield, signed up to the course after moving to London and joining a rugby team called Bec Belles, ...

New research exploring how deaf and hearing preschool-aged children learn through interactive play with their parents is the focus of a partnership between Rochester Institute of Technology’s National ...

It was much different than a typical college social. The crowded room exuded a sense of positive energy, from people who share a common bond of beating unbeatable odds, and who were happily and ...

One little girl in Dayton, Maine, has unknowingly changed the culture of her entire school when she became the first and only deaf student to attend. Morey Belanger, 6, was diagnosed with a genetic ...

Michigan parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children will have new ways to track their child’s language learning progress under a new state law taking effect this spring. The law creates a new ...

First responders in the Midstate are learning a new language. The Pennsylvania State Police organized a crash course in American Sign Language, or ASL, Thursday afternoon. Members of the local deaf ...

Fresh out of school himself, Rivera landed his first job as a middle and high school teacher for the Los Angeles-based Marlton School, which serves the needs of students who are deaf and hard of ...

According to the department’s letter, the Oregon Deaf-Blind Center lost its grant because Portland Public Schools, which serves as the center’s grant recipient, operates a Center for Black Student ...

In a world where spoken language is the norm, sign languages empower deaf and hard-of-hearing people to communicate with clarity and confidence even without speech. There are hundreds of different ...