A 300-year-old, leather-bound instruction manual contains some of the earliest examples of attempts to teach the deaf to communicate. The manual belonged to Alexander Popham, a deaf teenager from a ...

Deaf and hard-of-hearing people interested in entrepreneurship will have the opportunity to network with and learn about the ups and downs of business ownership from a panel of deaf people with ...

The program is funded through a grant from the federal Department of Education. But people are upset that Butler's curriculum only includes one ASL class.

Deafness creates significant barriers to speech development as it prevents the brain from receiving essential auditory feedback needed for learning speech. While cochlear implants can be effective ...

The Iowa School for the Deaf is pictured in 2016 in Council Bluffs. (Scott Morgan/Freelance for The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be ...