Melissa Malzkuhn started Motion Light Lab to create sign language learning and literacy resources for Deaf children—using emerging technology and storytelling. Melissa, who is third-generation Deaf, ...

Jenny was taught to sign as a baby, but she only learned the basic stuff — enough to get by. The Californian, who was born with auditory processing disorder and a right eardrum that doesn’t vibrate in ...

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...

Being deaf from birth changes how a child interacts with the world in many ways. Even in their first year, deaf and hearing infants seem to process visual information differently. ByKatherine J. Wu ...

Universities have a role to play in equipping future teachers of the Deaf by teaching sign language. Wits University South African Sign Language is now the country’s 12th official language. Parliament ...

Individuals born deaf or who experience early-onset hearing loss exhibit profound reorganisation of neural processing across sensory systems. In the absence of auditory input, cortical regions ...