At least 24 Black deaf students who attended a segregated school on the grounds of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, in the early 1950s never received their high school diplomas. Seventy years ...

Masks, enforced social distance and other public health measures intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus pose unique challenges to the 37 million American adults with impaired hearing. By ...

Netflix’s reality docuseries “Deaf U” reveals a lot about deaf culture that may come as a surprise to most people in the hearing world. One particular subset within Gallaudet University’s diverse body ...

When Nyle DiMarco got his start in reality television competing on America's Next Top Model in 2015, he quickly understood the identity producers were creating for him. DiMarco is stunningly handsome, ...

Editor’s Note: Dr. Philip Zazove is an author, physician and chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is one of the first deaf physicians in the United States and ...

Troy Kotsur is now the first man who is Deaf to win an Academy Award for acting, collecting the trophy for best actor in a supporting role. His CODA costar, Marlee Matlin, was the first Deaf actor to ...

Our Deaf Ways is an Auslan vodcast series by SBS and Deaf Australia, that explores and celebrates everyday life as a Deaf person. In this episode, learn how Auslan compares and translates to English.

As deaf journalists continue to give the deaf a voice in society, Edna Kaindi appeals to stakeholders to build the sign language curriculum. PHOTOs/bird agency. A majority of deaf people were born ...

On March 6, 1891, 44-year-old Alexander Graham Bell gave a speech at the National Deaf-Mute College in Washington, DC, in which he essentially told an audience of deaf students they shouldn’t ...

We examined communication between hearing mothers and their deaf or hearing children longitudinally at child-ages 22 months and 3 years. Specifically, we analyzed both the effects of child deafness ...

Tactile contact with an infant plays an important role (though one largely overlooked by researchers until recently) in the development of synchronous interactive dialogues between caregiver and child ...