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Five years ago the staff at Ken Gan's auto repair shop told him they needed to find a better way of communicating with deaf customers. "I said, let me go shopping -- I'll buy you whatever's out there, ...

If you're meeting a deaf person for the first time, you might have some questions about how to best communicate and interact with them. 1. Make eye contact and smile: A warm smile is a universal sign ...

Deafness represents a profound hearing loss affecting approximately half a million Americans, creating significant communication challenges. People experiencing deafness might hear absolutely nothing ...

The current class of NYPD recruits — 600 strong — learned basic American Sign Language as part of their training, enabling them to better communicate with deaf people during emergencies. Jessica ...

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 ...

I met up with Ava co-founder and CEO Thibault Duchemin at his place here in San Francisco earlier this week to catch up and talk tech for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community. Like me, Duchemin is a ...

If you watched one of Jacksonville’s Hurricane Milton briefings, you saw Mayor Donna Deegan standing at a lectern, a row of officials behind her, a deaf interpreter beside her. If you’re like me, even ...

At a campus often known for its large Deaf community, guest speaker and NCOD Academic Advisor Zachary Lotane challenged non-Deaf students, faculty and staff to step up, support and ensure that their ...

A simple gesture turned an ordinary dinner into a special moment of connection between one man who is deaf and a waitress Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working for ...

A new film out this week depicting the life of Jesus aims to reach an audience its director says has long been overlooked. "JESUS: a Deaf Missions film," will be the first of its kind made up of a ...