For the past two years, Tim Riker, a lecturer of American Sign Language at Brown University's Center for Language Studies, has worked with a group of University of Massachusetts Medical School ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher is investigating how deaf adults, proficient in American Sign Language, use the Internet for health-related information. Access to health communication ...

Emma Kane, a third-year public policy major from Brighton, N.Y., has spent the past year working at the Deaf Health Laboratory, led by the mentors at the Deaf Health Care and Biomedical Sciences Hub ...

A Review in this week's Lancet says that mental health problems are about twice as prevalent in deaf people compared with the general population, and also reports disparities in access to and quality ...

Editor's Note: When used as a cultural label, the word "Deaf" is capitalized in this news release. When used as a term for an audiological condition it appears as a lower-case "d." People who are ...

Deaf people who sign have poorer health than the general population, according to am English study. According to the charity that commissioned the work, the study "revealed shocking inequality in ...

James and Amy Ferrell's daughter was nine months old when they learned that she'd been born with bilateral sensory neural hearing loss. In other words, she was deaf in both ears. "She was the first ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A recent commentary titled “Reproductive Justice for the Deaf Community” highlighted what health care ...

Editor’s Note: Sara Novic is a deaf writer and the author of the books “Girl at War” and “America is Immigrants,” with her second novel forthcoming from Random House in 2022. The views expressed in ...

Kenyan Sign Language bridges the communication gap between the deaf and hearing. Reuters/Andres Martinez Casares Junie* wakes up early in the morning. She’s ill and preparing for a doctor’s visit in ...