Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The students were fed up. It was March 1988, and the board of trustees overseeing Gallaudet University, founded more than a ...

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 ...

When Tamiko Rafeek admitted herself to the hospital a few years ago, she asked for an interpreter. “I was feeling very, very sick that day,” she recalled. Rafeek is deaf, and the Americans with ...

KSHB 41 reporter Olivia Acree covers portions of Johnson County, Kansas. Share your story idea with Olivia. While the message of "don't suffer in silence" is one heard during May's Mental Health ...

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

Deaf travelers note that information is often only communicated verbally for airline passengers, sometimes leaving them ...