Professor Bencie Woll, at UCL's Deafness, Cognition and Language research centre, where the BSL assessments will be developed, said: "Early identification ... and more » [...] more »

The newly constructed biology research laboratory at Gallaudet University is presently offering four internship positions for deaf or hard-of-hearing undergraduate science majors for summer 2010. The internships will last ten weeks, beginning May 23, 2010 and ending July 30, 2010. [...] more »

The iSLanDS Institute and the Deaf Empowerment Foundation are hosting a one-day workshop entitled "Deaf Community Leadership." The workshop will be held at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, United Kingdom on June 27, 2010. A call for proposals is in effect with a deadline of March 24, 2010. [...] more »

The Department of Deaf Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, in cooperation with European Deaf Research of Sign Language (EDRSL) is organizing an international symposium entitled "Deaf Studies: Strengthening Our Heritage." This will be held September 1st-3rd, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. [...] more »

Karen Emmorey, a cognitive neuroscientist at San Diego State University, has been looking at how the brains of deaf people interpret American Sign Language. ... [...] more »

The best teachers use voice inflection, visuals, and pacing to keep their students attentive. Associate Professor Jeffrey Davis does more; he also uses his hands talk. Experienced in signing as an interpreter and deaf educator, then as a professor studying the linguistics of American Sign Language, his signing hands accompanied his lecture Friday at the Science Forum. [...] 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 »

When asked if NAISL was created specifically for deaf people, Davis supported the possibility due to the historically higher percentage of hearing impaired ... [...] more »

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the diagnostic and clinical features of deaf psychiatric inpatients. METHODS: Archival clinical data for deaf and ... [...] more »

The report, conducted by The Galaxy Research for Deafness Forum, makes it pretty clear that hearing aids have a dramatic impact on overall quality of life ... [...] more »

Scientists who are studying implants have found that two implants are better than one, and a key to that improvement comes from the ability to detect the source of the sound. [...] more »

Erin Wilkinson believes she s Canada s first deaf linguistics professor. Try explaining a common English metaphor such ... [...] more »

Scientists have known for 40 years that even though it takes longer to use sign language to sign individual words, sentences can be signed, on average, in the same time it takes to say them, but until now they have never understood how this could be possible [...] more »

The 21st International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED 2010) will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada., from July 18 to 22, 2010. [...] more »

Listening is more than a matter of being "all ears." People can also hear with their skin, according to new research that deepens our understanding of the senses, showing they can work together but also override one another. Strange though it seems, scientists are finding that multiple senses contribute to the simplest perceptions. People can see with their ears, hear with their eyes, or hear with a touch. [...] more »