A football helmet developed by Gallaudet University with AT&T for Deaf and hard-of-hearing players is seen during Gallaudet football practice at Hotchkiss Field in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023.

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 ...

A 22-year-old Kenyan engineer has developed robotic hands designed to help deaf children follow classroom lessons by converting teachers' spoken words into sign language in real time. Norah Kimathi, ...

Newswise — For those who are deaf or hard of hearing, cell phone use has largely been limited to text messaging. But technology is catching up: Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell ...

When Laurence Whitworth went out to play or to school as a child, his mother couldn’t enjoy the peace of mind of knowing that her son could pick up a phone and call if something was wrong. That would ...

Some students at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Germantown have new safety technology.

Delaware is building a new, state-of-the-art school for the deaf. But it arrives at a time when medical advances are enabling more deaf children to take part in mainstream education. Hearing implants ...

A new, $500,000 "grand challenge" hopes to change those numbers and the outcomes by encouraging people and organizations to come up with innovations for increasing access to local sign languages and ...

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to extend a program that offers deaf-blind people specialized equipment to help them use smartphones, laptops and related devices. The ...

A powerful collaboration among two universities and a tech giant is working to develop a mobile app that will enable parents of deaf children to more easily learn American Sign Language. The game is ...

PROVO, Utah (AP) - Kim Smith knew from the start that video remote interpreting was going to become a problem. “I remember seeing that and thinking that is not going to work,” Smith, who is deaf, said ...