He became a long-term sub teacher at the Texas School for the Deaf where he taught students who had a passion about reading and learning about current events. Alex decided to start “The Daily Moth” in ...

All in the name of their community. It's a story co-director Nyle DiMarco, Deaf actor and filmmaker, has wanted to tell for years. Initially, he and producer Jonathan King tried for a scripted ...

Deaf journalist Alex Abenchuchan from Michigan wanted to bridge that information gap, and began presenting a news show in ASL called "The Daily Moth" on YouTube in 2015. "There are some deaf ...

For decades, deaf and hard-of-hearing students attending RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf have been earning associate, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees. This year, the first three ...

Callie Foster and her husband learned ASL to communicate with their ‘profoundly deaf’ son Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS ...

For 70 years the team at California's School for the Deaf in Riverside couldn’t win a season. Then they won two — back-to-back — and don't plan on slowing down Adam Perez/The New York Times ...

But before she could become a scientist, she had to find what deaf people like her call the "Deaf Scientist Pipeline." The federal grants that make up that pipeline helped her earn a Ph.D., begin ...

At least 24 Black deaf students who attended a segregated school on the grounds of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, in the early 1950s never received their high school diplomas. Seventy ...

The shooting deaths of four deaf people in Maine during the Lewiston rifle rampage last week that killed 18 people appears to be the worst mass shooting affecting the deaf community, according to ...

Some deaf federal employees at some agencies aren’t able to access American Sign Language interpreting services and other accommodations as a result of President Donald Trump’s orders to ...

The Texas School for the Deaf's Austin campus serves about 550 students.(Courtesy of the Texas School for the Deaf) When it comes to hiring new teachers, the Texas School for the Deaf faces steep ...

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.