(WXYZ) — More than 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents. And it may come as a shock to you to learn that the vast majority of those parents will never ...

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More than 90 percent of deaf children in the U.S. are born to hearing parents. For them, the path forward can be difficult and also controversial. The advent of cochlear implant technology has the ...

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 ...

“It’s not just an organization closing,” said Sarah-Anne Hrycenko, a Deaf professional who received support through the Deaf ...

Think back to your favorite childhood TV show—was it “Blue’s Clues”? “Little Bear”? “Winnie the Pooh”? Animated TV shows are important for kids because they can teach them to read, draw, spell, and ...

Currently, there is no standard process for assessing deaf children under five. Kids with hearing loss sometimes arrive at kindergarten with “language deprivation,” meaning they don’t know as many ...

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 ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

For decades, most students who attended Jericho Hill and later BC School for the Deaf came from Deaf Children’s Society. Its ...

Correction: The original video with this piece did not include captioning for some of the American Sign Language seen on screen. The video has been updated to include ...