I read I f a Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard, by Jennifer Rosner, in one big gulp and loved it. [...] more »

What would it be like to be raised by two deaf parents? Two loving yet complicated deaf parents in a large family? Writer/performer Michael Bonnabel tells his tale of growing up in such a household in 1960s Pasadena in The Good Boy at the Bootleg Theater. [...] more »

SIGN language and lip-reading are part of daily life in the Brown household. Aaron Brown, of Prestons, was born profoundly deaf and his wife Francess has only 20 per cent hearing in one ear. Their three sons learnt to sign before they could talk and their newborn baby daughter will do the same. Mr Brown is this week’s nominee for the Liverpool Leader Community Father of the Year award. [...] more »

LeFors grew up in a family in which everyone was deaf but him. He's using that experience to teach courses in sign language to U of L athletes, noting there ... [...] more »

"Hi," the 1-year-old said multiple times, waving and smiling. His parents - both deaf - didn't hear him. His father, Justin, can only hear A.J. if he's yelling right next to him, so he usually communicates using hand signals and touching. Justin, 30, smiled and waved to his son to say "Hi." [...] more »

During the session, host Ruth Navarra introduced 13-year-old Yulo, who was the inspiration for the book “Hands that Bridge.” The story is about a boy born to deaf parents. His story is part of Museo Pambata’s “Batang Bayani (Child Heroes)” series of children’s books. [...] more »

Though his parents are deaf, this is when Wann first realized that they would support him in whatever he wanted to do, even if it involved something that ... [...] more »

She was adopted by deaf parents in 1908 and quickly learned sign language. "My father was a very strict teacher. 'I want you to sign and sign correctly,'" ... [...] more »

I come from three generations of deaf people,” says Russell Harvard, the charming American actor, who was in the City to promote his film Words, ... [...] more »

Kids in an apartment next door woke up because of the fire and then woke their parents, who are deaf. The couple then went and banged on the door of the ... [...] more »

Firstly scientist Joseph Garcia, who worked as an interpreter in the deaf community, had noticed how the hearing offspring of signing deaf parents began to ... [...] more »

“It (his hearing impairment) didn’t bother me at all,” he said. “I was able to do what I wanted.” One of the things Reid wanted to do was to play ice hockey. He started with roller hockey at the age of 6, and by the age of 10 he had graduated to ice hockey. He was good enough to play on travel teams, including the Freehold Regional Independent Raiders, and then with the Freehold Township High School varsity. [...] more »

Did you have a day job? I did have a day job. I was a sign language interpreter from when I was 17, but I don't do that anymore. Both of my parents were deaf. I grew up in a deaf household. I don't do any jokes about it really, but yeah that was my day job. [...] more »

At an age when most children are struggling with their first words, Mia Jones was already chattering away in sign language. The six-year-old girl has been using the language of gestures and expressions since she was eight months old and was as fluent as an adult by the age of three. Though she has perfect hearing, her parents Craig and Jacqueline are both deaf. [...] more »

As the hearing daughter of devoutly Catholic deaf parents, Malinowski learns to navigate the cross-cultural maze of the medical world and the deaf world, ... [...] more »