Syracuse, N.Y. -- When Heather Patrick was growing up, she knew she was different. At the age of 16, she was diagnosed with autism. She graduated from high school at 21, and went from one community ...

One TikToker is using American Sign Language to share music with her deaf father – and the world – while working toward her graduate degree Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Photographs of Babs Haggin-Roy’s parents, Dorothy and Charles Sellers are seen as she talks about them and growing up with deaf parents at her home in northeast Cedar Rapids on Oct. 20. Hagin-Roy ...

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...

Courtney, a hearing mom whose husband is deaf, shared a video teaching her 7-month-old daughter how to sign so she can communicate with her dad Responding to comments from people who said her daughter ...