A Devon theatre has joined forces with Exmouth's the Deaf Academy to make the venue and its productions more accessible to people with hearing loss. The collaboration grew out of a letter one of the ...
Throughout the day, the event will feature cultural performances, keynote speakers, an exhibit from Hawai’i’s Deaf Museum and an educational panel discussion. Festivities are taking place from 10 a.m.
In the first few weeks of life a baby has a hearing test. If the baby is deaf “the doctors will say your child has failed the hearing test. The word ‘failure’ is associated with the birth of their ...
The Deaf flag is flying at RTÉ to mark Irish Sign Language (ISL) Awareness Week and International Week of Deaf People. Here, our friends at the Irish Deaf Society tells us more... The flag is the one ...
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The International Week of Deaf People is being celebrated from September 22nd to 28th, focusing on promoting the human rights of deaf individuals through sign languages.
Television Academy voters have until Wednesday night to finish up their ballots that will determine this year’s winners of Primetime Emmy Awards. There’s intense competition in the documentary ...
Translation was led by deaf people trained in the biblical languages. When Renca Dunn talks about having the Bible in her own language for the first time, she emphasizes the adjectives. In English, ...
In March 1988, students at Gallaudet University in D.C., the world’s only liberal arts university for the Deaf and hard of hearing, sparked a civil rights movement that changed history. After the ...
The Indiana University Police Academy has created a sign language and Deaf culture training in direct collaboration with Deaf ASL faculty. The training includes a video of key signs for police ...
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) sued President Donald Trump and several co-defendants for failing to provide qualified ASL interpreters at public press briefings and similar events. The ...
WASHINGTON - A group of Deaf Americans who previously forced the White House to provide American Sign Language interpreters during press briefings is asking a federal judge to again intervene after ...
Callie Foster and her husband learned ASL to communicate with their ‘profoundly deaf’ son Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, ...