A revolutionary pair of glasses lets people who are deaf and hard of hearing put subtitles on their everyday conversations. Called XRAI Glass, the eyewear takes audio collected from the built-in ...

The recent rampage by a gunman that left 18 people dead in Lewiston, Maine, is opening a window into the vulnerabilities deaf people face during mass shootings and other crises. Last month’s attack on ...

RIT graduate Liam Coleman was looking for a way to express how it feels to be caught within one’s own thoughts about navigating identity. As a Deaf person, Coleman ’19 (individualized program) ...

Growing up as the only hearing child in an all-Deaf family — a circumstance he says is rarer than being struck by lightning twice — Thibault Duchemin was always translating. From phone calls to doctor ...

For the deaf community, films are still a powerful, joyful, and emotional medium. In fact, cinema has always been more than just sound. It’s about storytelling, expression, and connection, and deaf ...

The event was held by the Deaf Academy which is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year.

Deafness is a challenging condition that hinders the ability of sufferers to effectively function in their daily lives, especially in societies that make little or no investment in public ...

It took CJ Jones two years to create Na’vi sign language, featured in “Avatar: The Way of Water,” which allows the Na’vi people on Pandora to communicate underwater and with mythical creatures in some ...

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More than 100 people gathered at Freemasons' Hall in Northampton on Friday evening for Deaf First's largest event to date, ...

Marlee Matlin slept in the morning after the 94th Academy Awards. When she woke, she said via an interpreter for a phone interview Monday, she didn’t feel like putting on makeup. She’d been applying ...