The phrase begins with four fingers cut across the brow, followed by two thumbs drawn up like breath from navel to chest, ending with a fierce tug with two hands down from the chin into fists toward ...

Born to deaf parents in a family where he was the fourth generation born without hearing, Harper College instructor Marcos Aguilar was so immersed in Deaf culture as a child that he thought people who ...

Siân Heder’s living room was all wrong. While on set for her new film “CODA,” about the hearing daughter of a deaf family, her American Sign Language master, Anne Tomasetti, gave her a note about the ...

Following last spring’s decision to establish a formal language sequence for American Sign Language (ASL), Princeton has expanded its ASL course offerings, hired an additional ASL professor, and added ...

Poor literacy skills have plagued the deaf and hard of hearing community for decades. The median literacy rates of deaf high school graduates have languished at a fourth-grade level since the turn of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Camp Sign Adventures takes their final trip of the season to sail and fish at Northerly Island. "We allow the kids to be exposed to different kinds of activities like team building, ...

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama “Jesus of Nazareth” — but as a deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it ...

A proposal is underway to bring New Hanover County a charter school integrating both deaf and hard-of-hearing students with ...

The presence of the best picture winner's cast and team changed what all guests experienced inside the Dolby Theatre and what viewers saw on TV during the Academy Awards on Sunday night. By Abbey ...

Sure it was part of an ad campaign by Samsung, but it was also genuinely remarkable: the neighborhood of Bağcılar, Istanbul in Turkey learned sign language as a surprise for one young adult who is ...

The last decade has seen many advancements in video game accessibility. From hardware like the Xbox Adaptive Controller, to legislation that requires all communication options in online multiplayer to ...

The Simpsons has graced our TVs for 33 seasons. That alone means we’ve seen hundreds instances of Homer injuring himself. After more than 700 episodes, there are few things The Simpsons haven’t done.