Teaching a child sign language for words like “more,” “all gone,” or “thank you” can make it easier for them to communicate and express emotions. Share on Pinterest Most children begin to talk around ...

September is Deaf Awareness Month. All month long, Jeremy has been teaching Tom & Maddie new American Sign Language signs of the day.

The wearable device can also translate voice to text, transcribing spoken language picked up by a microphone into text that’s displayed on the bracelet’s screen. A winner of the coveted red dot awards ...

LEOMINSTER — Standing at the front of her class Tuesday morning, sign-language educator Sheryl White told her students, “My strategy is to make signing interesting and fun.” She then pulled a rubber ...

When their newborn failed a hearing test, Quinn and Kai were distraught. Their pediatrician reassured them their baby was a candidate for a cochlear implant – an electronic device consisting of an ...

Like many young people in Singapore and elsewhere, 25-year-old Quek Kai Yu sometimes finds it difficult to communicate with his parents. But in his case, the generation gap isn't always to blame. Quek ...

The winners of Microsoft's Imagine Cup aim to create a device "to solve the language barrier between sign-language users and the rest of the world." Taking home a $25,000 prize, a team of Ukrainian ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Until hearing people walk a day in our shoes, they will never understand," says a guidance counselor at a high school for deaf students in "Switched at Birth." Such insights are a ...