After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley’s baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.

More than 90 percent of deaf children in the U.S. are born to hearing parents. For them, the path forward can be difficult and also controversial. The advent of cochlear implant technology has the ...

Correction: The original video with this piece did not include captioning for some of the American Sign Language seen on screen. The video has been updated to include ...

A post about a teenage son who "blew up" at his parents for not being willing to learn sign language to better communicate with their mute daughter has gone viral on Reddit, where it has received more ...

Sign-Speak aims to use machine learning to make communicating through sign language easier. Cofounder Nikolas Kelly's own challenges communicating while deaf prompted the idea. The software translates ...

ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – September is Deaf Awareness Month and school leaders at Starr Elementary said they believe inclusion means everything. Instead of traditionally reciting the Pledge of ...

Prince William has been praised on social media for a resurfaced video that shows he learned sign language to communicate with a deaf recipient of a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ...