March 30th, 1987—21-year-old Marlee Matlin, bespectacled and in a puff-sleeved purple gown, cautiously took the stage and changed the course of film history. Her Best Actress Oscar for the role of ...
I am deaf, losing my hearing in a series of rude jolts over several decades beginning in my early 30s. For me, like many with progressive hearing loss, each decline was a surprise. I always thought my ...
Sign language is currently one of the most popular families of languages in the world, with National Geographic estimating more than 300 forms of sign language used by more than 70 million people ...
Wyatte C. Hall is an assistant professor of public-health sciences and researches deaf population health at the University of Rochester Medical Center, New York. I knew funding cuts would come to the ...
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) sued President Donald Trump and several co-defendants for failing to provide qualified ASL interpreters at public press briefings and similar events. The ...
From Oscar winner Marlee Matlin to Marvel superhero Alaqua Cox, deaf and hard-of-hearing actors are breaking barriers and reshaping Hollywood with every role. Want to learn more? We rounded up the ...
Parents with Deaf children often have a choice to make: do they learn Auslan, the spoken word, or a mix of both? Families who choose a bilingual approach need to get well versed in the Deaf world and ...
Callie Foster and her husband learned ASL to communicate with their ‘profoundly deaf’ son Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, ...
But beyond gender and racial disparities, another group remains critically underrepresented: the Deaf community. Despite the talent within the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing population, opportunities in ...
A deaf customer filmed an interaction they had with a Dunkin’ worker. In the video, posted to TikTok, the worker refuses to serve the customer in the drive-thru, telling the customer they need to come ...
BTS member V and Bing Crosby sing together in an "era-bending" new version of the late US crooner's classic "White Christmas" set for release Friday -- thanks to the power of technology, South Korean ...