Speech production, like other sensorimotor behaviors, relies on multiple sensory inputs—audition, proprioceptive inputs from muscle spindles and cutaneous inputs from mechanoreceptors in the skin and ...

More than 90 percent of deaf children in the U.S. are born to hearing parents. For them, the path forward can be difficult and also controversial. The advent of cochlear implant technology has the ...

In a small, sparse makeshift lab, Melissa Malzkuhn practices her range of motion in a black, full-body unitard dotted with light-reflecting nodes. She's strapped on a motion capture, or mocap, suit.

New research exploring how deaf and hearing preschool-aged children learn through interactive play with their parents is the focus of a partnership between Rochester Institute of Technology’s National ...

Fresh out of school himself, Rivera landed his first job as a middle and high school teacher for the Los Angeles-based Marlton School, which serves the needs of students who are deaf and hard of ...

In a world where spoken language is the norm, sign languages empower deaf and hard-of-hearing people to communicate with clarity and confidence even without speech. There are hundreds of different ...

For many students, a return to school ended months of disruption to their learning. But the requirement to wear face masks in the classroom means that, for deaf children, the problems continue.