If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, the benefits would be extraordinary. It would not only eradicate the biggest ...

High school senior Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris spent the first seven years of his life in silence. Born deaf, he didn’t have any formal way of communicating with his peers. “I would have classes and I ...

More than 90 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents, which can be problematic when the first few years of a child’s life are critical to language development. But a new dictionary ...