A deaf Akron man, who can't speak, was sentenced to 55 years to life in prison on multiple felonies including the murder of a 45-year-old woman. Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas Teodosio announced guilty verdicts on seven counts before handing down the sentence on Friday afternoon for 24-year-old Jerron Johnson. [...] more »

A request for a class action lawsuit has been filed alleging sexual abuse at the hands of priests at the former Montreal Institute of the Deaf and the Mute. ... and more » [...] more »

A hearing impaired youth accused of stealing a mobile phone from a bus passenger was beaten up by the police and remanded in the Negombo prison for six days before his family finally located him. [...] more »

A United Parcel Service of America Inc. unit may have unlawfully discriminated against a deaf worker by failing to provide American Sign ... [...] more »

Legislation under review in the U.S. Congress could lift the barriers deaf and blind people face when using the Internet and other online innovations like YouTube. The Equal Access to 21st Century Communications Act would give the Federal Trade Commission the power to set regulations for content providers and equipment involving the Internet. [...] more »

An elderly deaf-mute hawker who sold porn to support a second wife, stepson and three girlfriends has been jailed for 16 months for scamming more than HK$335,000 in dole over a 24-year period. [...] more »

A DEAF and dumb man could face jail for attacking his elderly neighbours in their home after downing eight cans of cider. ... [...] more »

A deaf man charged with threatening to throw a DLR worker on to the track at Canary Wharf was cleared of the attack after he said he was just asking for directions to the Tube in sign language. [...] more »

For the blind and deaf, going to a movie -- and following the plot -- may seem like a near impossibility. A recent Massachusetts settlement, however, may make it easier for them. The three largest movie theater chains in Massachusetts will undergo renovations to make their movies more accessible to the disabled because of a settlement reached by Attorney General Martha Coakley. [...] more »

FLINT — A deaf woman who struggled for two weeks to communicate with doctors and nurses as she underwent tests and was diagnosed with kidney cancer now is ... [...] more »

Early in 2009, the Government publicly announced that deaf persons would soon be able to acquire a driver's licence legally. The deaf community was very ... [...] more »

She and Lilly Crisman, a teaching specialist at Pasadena City College who is deaf, are "sensory disabled," Griesmer said. For her, the issue isn't so much ... [...] more »

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If you were deaf and hospitalized, chances are you wouldn't have had a sign-language interpreter. [...] more »

So instead of being one large market share of 54 million, Strauss explained, they're divided into smaller individual markets of blind, deaf, deaf blind, ... Event in South Park to celebrate 20th anniversary of Americans with ... [...] more »