Deaf sports stakeholders are set to protest in Lagos today against the exclusion of their events from the National Sports ...

Errors in identifying a Deaf patient led to noncompliance labels, improper involuntary commitment, and a federal court ...

The National Deaf Center at the University of Texas at Austin has received $24 million in federal funding to expand programs aimed at helping deaf students succeed in education and the workforce.

A lawsuit in Illinois charges that prisons blocking videophone capabilities violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in custody are legally entitled to effective communication and equal access to medical care, ...

William 'Dummy' Hoy was deaf. His creative on-field communication methods changed the game, and his supporters want him in the Hall of Fame.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marlee Matlin attends the premiere of "Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore" during the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 23, ...

The students were fed up. It was March 1988, and the board of trustees overseeing Gallaudet University, founded more than a century earlier to educate deaf and hard-of-hearing students, chose to ...

In this article, deaf is used as an umbrella term to include Deaf, deaf, hard of hearing, hearing-impaired, deafened and people with hearing loss. Theatre and cinemas are increasingly lauding their ...

It takes years to become fluent in sign language, according to a principal figure in the documentary “Deaf President Now!” It isn’t something you learn overnight. And yet, there’s one gesture that has ...