Two comprehension studies were conducted with 46 deaf college students. In the first, 20 deaf college students representing higher and lower reading-ability levels were tested for correctly stating ...

Historically, one of the issues in the education of deaf children has been whether reading achievement is related to parental method of communication. Although deaf children of signing deaf parents ...

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 study suggests computers are now better at lip-reading than humans. Researchers found that an automated system significantly outperformed human lip-readers -- scoring a recognition rate of 80 ...

Margaret Danowski was a busy mother of five living in downtown Reading when her 5-year-old daughter Rita was diagnosed with hearing loss in 1964. In those days, services for the deaf were virtually ...

Britain's deaf children are being "failed by the education system", a new study suggests. Researchers say more than half the deaf children they assessed had reading difficulties as severe as the ...

"Oral deaf" children, who communicate by speaking rather than sign language, are "needlessly falling behind" with reading, the report says ByPatrick Howse BBC News, Education reporter Britain's deaf ...

Liam Mohan-Litchfield twisted and manipulated his tiny hands, using sign language to read before a white miniature horse named Thor. "I read a book about my shoes," 7-year-old Liam signed to an ...

SANTA FE — Liam Mohan-Litchfield twisted and manipulated his tiny hands, using sign language to read before a white miniature horse named Thor. “I read a book about my shoes,” 7-year-old Liam signed ...