Khyiana Tate is on a mission to teach others, and she is not letting her deafness stop her. Like many teenagers, Tate is working toward getting her driver’s license as well as graduation from high ...

Gainesville native Kentrell Martin is living his dream. He is an award-winning author of American Sign Language books who travels the country on book tours, visiting schools, and teaching American ...

An app that translates a selection of books into sign language has made the move on to Apple iOS, in a bid to help more than 30 million deaf children across the world. StorySign first arrived in ...

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 ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is one of four international innovators selected to create cost-effective packages of high-quality accessible children’s ...

“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 ...

Very young children can communicate with sign language even before they can talk. That was one reason about 15 families came to try out the beginnings of sign language Saturday at a new class offered ...

Just a few years ago baby sign language seemed like a novelty, something reserved for precocious toddlers. Think “Meet the Fockers,” the movie that had Robert De Niro intensely signing with his genius ...