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According to program organizers, 225 children in Powhatan signed up to take part in the program in the first month alone — ...

Deafness is understood by most hearing people as a deficit. As a person who is deaf, who is raising a son who is deaf, I'm ...

Le Roux’s deafness awakened my sense of ignorance to the challenges differently-abled people faced on life’s daily routines ...

Decades before the Paralympic Games were born, the world's first multi-discipline competition for athletes with a disability ...

Spoken through hands and gestures, sign language holds a special place for the hearing-impaired worldwide. It breaks down ...

As more students want to learn sign language, some Kansas schools have hired unqualified ASL teachers. The state is now ...

This year, the team at The Phoenix Theatre Blyth are proud to be including British Sign Language interpreted performances and ...

Participants learnt and practised sign language with the assistance of 9-year-old Shanne Palien who is hard of hearing.

South Africa has 489 special needs schools that face a R21 million budget shortfall as they grapple with dilapidated ...

September is Deaf Awareness Month and The Center for Individuals With Physical Challenges has several events planned. It is also starting up a new series of sign language classes. Diana Emerson joined ...