When Elise Tate and husband Golden Tate decided to teach their then-9-month-old daughter sign language, they didn’t realize how impactful it would be upon the wide receiver’s trade from the Detroit ...

Khyiana Tate is on a mission to teach others, and she is not letting her deafness stop her. Like many teenagers, Tate is working toward getting her driver’s license as well as graduation from high ...

A grant is making it possible for students in Cedar Hill Elementary's second-grade class to connect better with each other. Second-grader Carter McKee has a rare genetic syndrome that results in ...

An app that translates a selection of books into sign language has made the move on to Apple iOS, in a bid to help more than 30 million deaf children across the world. StorySign first arrived in ...

“Eyeth—get it? In the Deaf storytelling tradition, utopia is called Eyeth because it’s a society that centers the eye, not the ear, like here on Earth.” That’s the opener to “Ear vs. Eye: Deaf ...

EdSource · John Fensterwald on what’s at stake for California schools in the 2026 election John Fensterwald on what’s at stake for California schools in the 2026 election April 16, 2026 - EdSource ...

According to the Survey of Income and Program Participation, nearly 1 million people in the United States are functionally deaf, while 10 million are hard of hearing. If there’s a member of your ...

As deaf individuals lost their sight in the DeafBlind community that Asst. Prof. Terra Edwards was studying, she discovered that an entirely new language emerged—one that doesn’t try to negotiate with ...

In a visual language, a subtle hand movement can help you get the joke. By Sam Corbin Nobody talks, if they can help it, at the Sign Language Center in New York City. The practice is both instructive ...

A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. “When I was in sixth grade, I was in choir at school, and we had to sign a song. I think it was ‘Somewhere Out There.’ I thought ...

WILMINGTON -- In May, for the first time, Cape Fear Community College had two students graduate with an associate in applied science degree in its Interpreter Education program. While that number may ...