One of the first things I noted moving into Stanford four weeks ago to start my freshman year was the bathroom situation. Back home in Utah, virtually all restrooms were segregated strictly by gender.

For someone who is deaf, communicating with a clerk at a retail store or non-ASL-speaking friend over dinner often involves laboriously writing notes. An app called Jeenie offers an alternative ...

On April 15, 1817, the American School for the Deaf opened. That date is now marked every year by ASL Day. Today, around one million people use American Sign Language (ASL) as their main way to ...