Does being born deaf lead to better visual skills, or does a lack of hearing make it difficult for deaf children to pay attention to the world around them? According to researchers at Rochester ...

Danette Roth offers a toy Tuesday to her son, Lance Roth, 10, at their home in Parkville, Mo. Lance, born deaf and nearly blind, is now able to communicate better after taking part in a Kansas ...

Dr. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke is spending the fall semester in Florianópolis, a city in southern Brazil, to study the ethics of ...

Word choice can be tricky. In an age where filters only apply to Instagram pics, no one really stops to think about the words they choose and the meanings attached to them. But when you’re speaking to ...

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Researchers at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., are recruiting students for an unprecedented longitudinal study of deaf children in the first stages of learning to read, in hopes of ...

A new report warns Deaf women experiencing domestic abuse in Scotland remain "effectively invisible" due to the chronic ...

As Dr. Lawrence Fleischer gave the final keynote speech at the American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA) conference in Phoenix, Ariz., on Oct. 31, thoughts ran through Jeff Lenham’s mind ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — For the first time in University of Louisiana at Lafayette's history, a minor in American Sign Language (ASL) is being introduced to the curriculum starting this fall. This inclusive ...

On a bright and crisp fall day during Gallaudet’s 2025 Homecoming, a long-awaited moment finally arrived. More than 70 years ...

In the ballroom on the ninth floor of One Silber Way, students and faculty danced and partied together, but barely anyone spoke aloud. Instead, people were almost exclusively using American Sign ...