The loss of one’s sense of hearing or vision is likely to be devastating in the way that it impacts daily life. Fortunately many workarounds exist using one’s remaining senses — such as sign language ...

When John Lee Clark was five years old, in 1983, he entered a small Deaf program within a public school near his home in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Clark was a dreamy kid who dressed in tucked-in button ...

Kerry Thompson, who is deafblind, remembers the passage of the American with Disabilities Act well — it was her 10th birthday. “What was powerful to me, [it] was my first time seeing sign language on ...

WOU’s new certificates are intended to give professionals the skills to better serve the deaf and hard of hearing communities throughout the state Western Oregon University has been serving people who ...

Like a lot of twins, Nikita and Eliya seem to have a language all of their own. The six-year-olds are never far apart and break into shrieks of giggling at a moment's notice. It's a frantic mix of ...

As deaf individuals lost their sight in the DeafBlind community that Asst. Prof. Terra Edwards was studying, she discovered that an entirely new language emerged—one that doesn’t try to negotiate with ...