JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO (WTRF) – A local summer camp is helping children learn a new way to communicate. The Sycamore Youth ...

Ensuring d/Deaf children become bilingual in sign language and English should be a key priority for policymakers and teachers because this plays an important role in their education, a new study says.

WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) - Saturday was the International Day of Sign Languages, and one area preschool's program teaches sign language to children as young as six weeks. The Learning ...

Accessibility is not difficult to provide. The idea that teaching differently-abled children is a challenge is a myth that is ...

When children develop the ability to understand language, as well as speak and communicate, this helps them interact with others and learn about their world. Research shows that children's early ...

After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley's baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.

For deaf people, language deprivation during early childhood represents the most significant threat to the exercise of their civil rights and liberties. Nearly all of our clients in these cases were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 18—Joanne Corwin remembers the uncertainty she felt as a new mother. In the late 1980s, her eldest daughter — and first-born ...

Michele Bergeron knows that her 5-year-old son, who’s deaf, likes watermelon and pizza. He’s obsessed with airplanes, wants to play football, likes books about Spider-Man and someday wants to be tall ...

FOXBORO – More young children are learning to express themselves through sign language at day cares in Massachusetts. "Imagine having all these big feelings and no way to get it out," said Jessica ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...