After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley’s baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.

Born Deaf, Chennai-based Shraddha Agarwal built SignSetu — a bilingual Indian Sign Language (ISL) platform that helps Deaf ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Learning how to talk is a complex process, but learning how to communicate, not as complicated as it might seem. KOB 4 went to a daycare in Albuquerque that is teaching sign ...

In a darkened room in Rochester, N.Y., a baby girl in a pink onesie peers at a computer screen. Wherever she looks, an eye tracker follows — recording her gaze patterns for future analysis. The baby, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KABC) -- A visit to meet Santa Claus can be a memorable experience for young children, but for those who are deaf, meeting St. Nick can come with a few challenges. That is where ...

FOXBORO – More young children are learning to express themselves through sign language at day cares in Massachusetts. "Imagine having all these big feelings and no way to get it out," said Jessica ...

WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) - Saturday was the International Day of Sign Languages, and one area preschool's program teaches sign language to children as young as six weeks. The Learning ...

Singing along to the ABC's is one of the first lessons we get as kids (whether or not you stick to the original or new-fangled version). For families with deaf and hard of hearing children, that ...

For deaf people, language deprivation during early childhood represents the most significant threat to the exercise of their civil rights and liberties. Nearly all of our clients in these cases were ...

According to a survey by a local non-profit organization, 35,000 children and adults have partially or completely lost their ...

Lauren Pastrana is the co-anchor of CBS4 News weeknights at 5, 6, 7 and 11 p.m. She joined CBS Miami in April 2012 as a reporter. She is an Emmy-nominated, multimedia journalist with experience in ...