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 ...

In a typical classroom at Sacramento State, the words “poop,” “diaper,” “bathroom” and other potty language are seldom heard. But this is not a typical classroom. “Promoting Rich Accessible Language ...

Because deaf and hard of hearing children cannot grasp the phonetics of the English language, memorizing words has been used to teach them how to read. A new method that is a combination of visual ...

INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — David Geeslin can still remember what it felt like to start learning American Sign Language as a ...

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 ...

"Watching George go for a hearing test and start using a hearing aid is the kind of story I wish I’d had when my son was ...

When early-childhood instructor Susannah Ford takes out her bucket of RFID-enabled toys at the Louisiana School for the Deaf, the children, ages three to five, gather quickly. These small cars, ...

Different languages may seem different on an instinctual level—"hello," for example, does not sound like "ni hao." But the work of many psychological scientists suggests that the thousands of ...

In a darkened room in Rochester, N.Y., a baby girl in a pink onesie peers at a computer screen. Wherever she looks, an eye tracker follows — recording her gaze patterns for future analysis. The baby, ...

A six-year-old girl from Worcestershire was finally able to partake in trick-or-treating for the first time this year after her neighbors learned sign language. Ada Hawkes was diagnosed as profoundly ...