New research exploring how deaf and hearing preschool-aged children learn through interactive play with their parents is the focus of a partnership between Rochester Institute of Technology’s National ...

Born Deaf, Chennai-based Shraddha Agarwal built SignSetu — a bilingual Indian Sign Language (ISL) platform that helps Deaf ...

Shared reading for deaf or hard-of-hearing children just became more accessible and entertaining with the development of an Android version by Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Access ...

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 ...

Typically, infants with hearing loss are first treated with hearing aids, and if these fail to help them develop early language and speech skills, they then become eligible for cochlear implants at 12 ...

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.

Think back to your favorite childhood TV show—was it “Blue’s Clues”? “Little Bear”? “Winnie the Pooh”? Animated TV shows are important for kids because they can teach them to read, draw, spell, and ...

An AI model using deep transfer learning—the most advanced form of machine learning—has predicted spoken language outcomes ...

When early-childhood instructor Susannah Ford takes out her bucket of RFID-enabled toys at the Louisiana School for the Deaf, the children, ages three to five, gather quickly. These small cars, ...

Every child, regardless of their parents' economic standing, deserves a good and quality education, including children with hearing loss. For deaf children in Nigeria, attending school is more than ...

LOS ANGELES — Up to three out of every 1,000 infants in the United States are born with profound hearing loss. Typically, infants with hearing loss are first treated with hearing aids, and if these ...