The Center on Cognition and Language, created in 2016, is the only center of its kind in the world led by a deaf director and staffed primarily by deaf researchers. Peter Hauser is a ...

In 2020, National Research Group (NRG) released a comprehensive look at Black representation on-screen. That study, which found that two in three Black Americans don’t see their stories represented in ...

Does being born deaf lead to better visual skills, or does a lack of hearing make it difficult for deaf children to pay attention to the world around them? According to researchers at Rochester ...

Since its start in the 1960s, Deaf Studies has been impacted by the political activism of Deaf communities, significant advancements in technologies and medicine, and broadened knowledge in ...

Sixty-three percent of Deaf consumers say Hollywood perpetuates negative stereotypes about the Deaf community and 82% believe the entertainment industry needs to offer more career support for Deaf ...

Two researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Institute for the Deaf are executing the first nationwide study on the level of reproductive health knowledge of women who are deaf or hard ...

The state and national education departments have awarded two training grants of about $1 million to the Boston University deaf-studies program in the School of Education for technology upgrades and ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — For the first time in University of Louisiana at Lafayette's history, a minor in American Sign Language (ASL) is being introduced to the curriculum starting this fall. This inclusive ...

Question: There is a commercial on TV featuring a deaf driver. Are deaf people allowed to drive, or are they restricted because of their hearing loss? Answer: Perhaps you saw the car commercial ...

The air is vibrating with anticipation. After weeks of intense competition, only two teams are left out of the 64 that had ...

Since the announcement about eliminating the minor, supporters have protested, organized a forum and sought answers from the administration across the University of Minnesota system. University of ...