BEAUMONT, Texas — A recent Lamar University graduate has a lot to celebrate. Shay Abigail has become a published author and her children’s book is breaking barriers. She graduated in May with a ...

According to the Survey of Income and Program Participation, nearly 1 million people in the United States are functionally deaf, while 10 million are hard of hearing. If there’s a member of your ...

In any community, language is the most important method for communicating with others. However, for a deaf person like me, it is difficult to connect with many people and speak in the same ways. This ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, ...

“Eyeth—get it? In the Deaf storytelling tradition, utopia is called Eyeth because it’s a society that centers the eye, not the ear, like here on Earth.” That’s the opener to “Ear vs. Eye: Deaf ...

We all communicate through words, either by speaking or writing. Very rarely, we use nods, or some simple hand signs to communicate. Unfortunately, there are deaf people in the world who cannot hear ...