Brevard County's teacher of the year, Christina Donohue, walks through an assembly Friday morning at Atlantis Elementary in Port St. John. The students gathered in her honor in the school's courtyard. Atlantis serves deaf and hard-of-hearing students, and Donohue, like many of her students, struggles with a hearing impairment. [...] more »

The Explore Your Future (EYF) program at Rochester Institute of Technology offers college-bound high school sophomores and juniors who are deaf and hard of hearing a unique opportunity to experience life on a college campus, explore their interests and sample various careers. [...] more »

DEAF people are often viewed as intellectually inferior, linguistically impoverished and treated them as outcasts, though they can do everything except for ... [...] more »

The 10-year-old student is 70 per cent deaf in both ears and used to miss a great deal of what was happening but thanks to a new Front Row to Go system he ... [...] more »

When Mary Weir's name sounded, her colleagues and friends waved their hands to cheer on the Pennycook Elementary School teacher who works with students who are deaf and hard of hearing.And when it was North Hills Christian School teacher John Dwyer's turn, his supporters [...] more »

That's what Alex Camarota had to say about being deaf. Camarota is a graduate teaching assistant in the department of creative writing. ... [...] more »

How do the deaf do it? - Lonnie, El Paso, Texas When I read, I "feel" the words in my mind. Depending on schooling, etc. [...] more »

But most astonishing, Stephania is deaf and speaks LESCO, the sign language of Costa Rica. Yet she's reading English and translating into a different sign ... and more » [...] more »

Hundreds of deaf children are now having to teach themselves sign language after the government axed funding for teaching positions [...] more »

It means parents, such as Charmaine Strickland, now struggle to teach their deaf children sign language. "We had no knowledge of deafness until our son ... [...] more »

A software program designed for general education has become an essential learning tool for students in the deaf education ... and more » [...] more »

A brilliant example of this is the life and academic achievements of a deaf girl from Lahore who is doing PhD in special education from Johns Hopkins, ... and more » [...] more »

Rwanda: Kagame Donates to School of the Deaf AllAfrica.com Kigali — President Paul Kagame, last Friday donated 12 hand knitting machines to the Butare centre of the deaf that is run by the Brothers of St Gabriel. ... [...] more »

Wanting her deaf and hard of hearing students to comprehend the concept of size, Linda Clark of Schaumburg, a primary deaf and hard of hearing educator, brought Lucy, a 60-foot-long whale to visit Blackwell school. [...] more »

The Deaf Bilingual Coalition says teachers often don't have the background they need in American Sign Language. (Jonathan Hartford/KTUU-DT) by Ashton ... [...] more »