Representing disability on screen has been a minefield for many years, between well-meaning but ultimately misguided attempts to outright harmful portrayals relying on stereotypes and dangerous ...

As a deaf person, Chrissy Marshall hates it when people react to hearing loss with pity. The 19-year-old UC Santa Cruz film and digital media student wants people to know that there is a vibrant deaf ...

Hundreds of people from Maryland's Deaf community came to Frederick on Friday to celebrate the opening of the Maryland Deaf Community Center. The center is the first of its kind in Maryland. It will ...

"Here Comes Mavo" hopes to bring deaf culture to audiences everywhere. She added: “[The] Deaf community has many compelling stories to share.” The origins of Here Comes Mavo lie in an educational ...

Everybody is getting ready for the new academic year at Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HMS). Teachers ...

Hearing aids and cochlear implants have improved the lives of the oral deaf, people with hearing loss who speak and may read lips rather than signing. But as technology advances, deaf people may soon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 21—There's an expression in American Sign Language in which people place their two index fingers at their mouth, then point ...

They had gathered at Schemengees Bar & Grille to play cornhole, as they did every Wednesday. They laughed, they talked, they drank, they sent beanbags sailing. Their latest meeting began as a festive ...

As a deaf actor, I’m always getting the same questions: What it is like to be a deaf actor? Isn’t it hard? How do you do roles if they are not for the deaf? I tell them I am just an actress. Even ...

Two advocates are asking Montgomery County leaders to make government services and public meetings more accessible for the ...