Eighteen years ago, deaf students at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, passed alerts hand to hand and pulled fire alarms to agitate for a deaf president. This week, as the university prepared to ...

The International Week of Deaf People has been celebrated during the last full week of September. This week, we come together to recognise that deaf people have our own communities, our own cultures, ...

Twenty years ago, if you wanted to find out what was going on in the deaf world, or maybe even meet a few deaf people, your options were pretty limited. You could watch See Hear, contact your local ...

In 1921, Kikue Ukai’s parents enrolled her in the California School for the Deaf, from which she graduated at the age of 18. In 1923, Kikue enrolled at Gallaudet. Kikue frequently contributed to ...

Thunder will rumble, winds will howl, storm sirens will wail, and emergency alerts will squawk. So many of the warning signs of severe weather are audible, making tornados and hurricanes a dangerous ...

The landmark event introduced many hearing visitors to the stories, poems, sign play, jokes and traditions of the deaf community James Deutsch In front of a sculptural display of the , Festival ...

Joseph Hill, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, believes he is the only black, deaf, Ph.D. linguist in America, and maybe in the world. “Just me,” he told an ...