Kelsey Boone throws her son, who is deaf, a birthday party. She's overcome when her entire family signs happy birthday to him ...

For Weinberg sophomore Elia Silbey, enrolling at Northwestern meant the end of their American Sign Language journey. After two years of studying it in high school, they said the University’s limited ...

Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez is worried about her son’s well-being as they try to communicate without the assistive devices he was forced to leave behind.

And now, artistic director of ODC/Dance Brenda Way has recruited Snider to create a new work, Caught in the Act, which ...

Despite the proven benefits of newborn hearing screening and early intervention, universal screening is not yet mandated in South Africa and is only available at a few public hospitals.Thousands of ...

The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.

Since the US has no federal mandate for hearing aid coverage, I found myself in a quandary – I couldn’t communicate with the hearing or the deaf At the end of my second American Sign Language (ASL) ...

Adventurer and campaigner Gerry Hughes, the first deaf man to sail solo around the world, is the special guest at a day of events in Fife this month to celebrate deaf language, culture and community ...

Oscar week is here, and Alabama can make more history at the 98th Annual Academy Awards if “The Alabama Solution” brings home the gold. The critically acclaimed film about the state’s prison system ...

Iowa patient advocates say that in the face of federal Medicaid cuts, the state is quietly reducing in-home services that help people avoid being institutionalized. KFF Health News — Leisa and Kent ...