If there is one factor that sets Slidell High School apart from the rest of the St. Tammany Parish schools, it is classes that go beyond the mundane curriculum set for every student’s path. For years, ...

New research is stirring fierce debate over the use of sign language among young deaf children who use surgical implants that create a sense of sound. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, ...

A proposal is underway to bring New Hanover County a charter school integrating both deaf and hard-of-hearing students with ...

Burris began teaching at Troy High School in the fall of 2019. She’s a firm believer in the importance of teaching ASL so her students will not only be able to communicate but also to help bridge the ...

Leah Brosky believes the students in Pine River Elementary School should be able to communicate with everyone, so she started teaching sign language after school. The sign language class is a new ...

Born Deaf, Chennai-based Shraddha Agarwal built SignSetu — a bilingual Indian Sign Language (ISL) platform that helps Deaf ...

A class of 20 students sat silent but attentive in Prior Lake High School’s room D127 as their teacher spoke, not with words but with hands and facial expressions. The students are part of the high ...

Hauppauge high school students will have the opportunity to take American Sign Language beginning next school year — the first time in more than 20 years. An introductory course was approved by the ...

"It felt so free to me. You know, that was who I was. That was my culture." Fifty-eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, student J.C.

Carl David Innmon, 50, was a fifth grade American Sign Language teacher at Baranoff Elementary School and reportedly ...

A driver was dismissed after displaying a sign on her bus window stating, “Out of respect to English-only students, there will be no speaking Spanish on this bus.” This sign pushed her too hard to hit ...