It’s as simple and profound as this: when children see people like them reflected in popular culture, they’re more likely to identify with those characters and realize that they belong in the world.

The Los Angeles Unified School District is poised to vote on a controversial proposal that could reshape education for thousands of deaf and hard-of-hearing students, a key battle in a long national ...

New research exploring how deaf and hearing preschool-aged children learn through interactive play with their parents is the focus of a partnership between Rochester Institute of Technology’s National ...

On Oct. 15, it will have been two years since Katie Rivera and her family brought home their third and youngest child, Martín, from Colombia. For Rivera, adopting a child was always something she ...

Billy and Catrina are deaf, and it was their dream to adopt a deaf child from China. They began the process 10 years ago while living in Lacey, and with the help of generous Asbury Park Press readers, ...

Michele Bergeron knows that her 5-year-old son, who’s deaf, likes watermelon and pizza. He’s obsessed with airplanes, wants to play football, likes books about Spider-Man and someday wants to be tall ...

In the first trailer for Sian Heder’s inspiring coming-of-age story “CODA,” we meet a teenage girl who pursues her dream of singing while working with and caring for her deaf family. (“CODA” stands ...

Troy Kotsur appeared in a new episode of the “Dad Saves America” podcast alongside host John Papola to provide information about how hearing parents can best raise a deaf child Troy Kotsur is using ...

An updated edition of Raising and Educating a Deaf Child by Dr. Marc Marschark, a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, now is available through ...

Typically, infants with hearing loss are first treated with hearing aids, and if these fail to help them develop early language and speech skills, they then become eligible for cochlear implants at 12 ...

MUCH MORE. A KENTUCKY TEENAGER IS HOPING TO FIND A FOREVER FAMILY THAT KNOWS AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE. 16 YEAR OLD ALEX IS DEAF AND WOULD LIKE TO FIND AN ADOPTIVE FAMILY THAT KNOWS THE IMPORTANCE OF ...

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