New research exploring how deaf and hearing preschool-aged children learn through interactive play with their parents is the focus of a partnership between Rochester Institute of Technology’s National ...

For Weinberg sophomore Elia Silbey, enrolling at Northwestern meant the end of their American Sign Language journey. After two years of studying it in high school, they said the University’s limited ...

The Center on Cognition and Language, created in 2016, is the only center of its kind in the world led by a deaf director and staffed primarily by deaf researchers. Peter Hauser is a ...

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In 1960, Carolyn Brick, ’60 & G-’63, graduated with her bachelor’s in psychology. She wanted to be a teacher. At the time, ...

Pets have a way of showing us they're capable of so much more than they're often given credit for. Their intelligence can't exactly be measured in the ways a human kid's can, but given some kind of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a world where spoken language is the norm, sign languages empower deaf and hard-of-hearing people to communicate with clarity ...

As tuition from the towns in which deaf and hard of hearing students reside is our primary source of revenue, critical needs include continued support for education generally – and special education ...

Michigan parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children will have new ways to track their child’s language learning progress under a new state law taking effect this spring. The law creates a new ...

The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.

In a world where spoken language is the norm, sign languages empower deaf and hard-of-hearing people to communicate with clarity and confidence even without speech. There are hundreds of different ...