A new communication card was developed to help individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing exchange information with law enforcement A new communication card was developed to help individuals who are ...

Ann Kona remembers what it was like growing up in the west central African region of Cameroon and having a younger brother who was deaf. Deafness was viewed culturally as a curse, and deaf children ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $399,986, three-year grant to RIT’s College of Science and National Technical Institute for the Deaf to develop up to 10 supplemental online learning ...

This year, Missouri became one of five states to devote substantial resources to residents who are Deaf-Blind; in other words, who are living with both hearing and vision loss. (The term is generally ...

Student Graci Dietrich chose RIT because she wanted to be part of a university where Deaf culture is celebrated. She is one of nearly 1,000 deaf and hard-of-hearing students supported by RIT’s ...

Smartphone brand, Huawei, uses the power of artificial intelligence to help deaf children and their parents learn to read together. Huawei, the global technology leader, has announced the launch of ...

When Lyft passengers get into Jibril Jaha's silver Honda, he suggests they speak into his Android phone so their words will appear on the smart watch on his wrist. "I can't hear; I'm deaf," he says, ...

On the hottest day of the summer so far in Berlin, Tom Bieling, a 32-year-old doctoral candidate, walked quickly down a corridor on the second floor of a science building mere blocks away from a ...

For Deaf people, train travel can be a gamble. On an average day, nothing goes wrong: they catch their train to their destination and carry on with their business. But when something out of the ...

NEW YORK – Anna Wade often sits in a church pew on Sunday and “kind of spaces out a little bit” until it’s time for communion, and then, she said, “that’s it.” Wade’s lack of attention, though, has ...