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 ...

MSCS has four schools with designated deaf education programs. But parents say there aren’t enough ASL interpreters or ...

However, many clinicians have limited understanding of ASL or deaf culture. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hazel Joel, 25, from Sheffield, signed up to the course after moving to London and joining a rugby team called Bec Belles, which had several members who were deaf. As a result, training sessions and ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — One doesn’t need to know sign language to understand what Michael Connolly feels about his colleagues’ efforts to break down the barriers posed by his deafness. When asked what he ...