OGDEN — Audree Clark is redefining how musical theater can be experienced. "I took (American Sign Language) for three years, and I also was doing theater in high school," Clark said. "Just learning ...

March 30th, 1987—21-year-old Marlee Matlin, bespectacled and in a puff-sleeved purple gown, cautiously took the stage and changed the course of film history. Her Best Actress Oscar for the role of ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The International Week of Deaf People is being celebrated from September 22nd to 28th, focusing on promoting the human rights of deaf individuals through sign languages.

Young football players locked in a huddle in the 1960s, jealously guarding their strategy for the next play. Getty Images During a tight game in the fall of 1894, Paul Hubbard—quarterback for the ...

British filmmaker Ted Evans knows he and his all-deaf cast have made something special after they made history at TIFF: “There’s a shift — we’re seeing more deaf actors, but stories as well. They can ...

Jackson — Mississippi’s students have untapped potential to fill the jobs of tomorrow. To unlock that potential and boost the number of young people obtaining college degrees, workforce credentials, ...

THE INDIANA School for the Deaf has laid off 26 staff members, including janitors and nurses, following a 5-percent budget cut required by state law, prompting outcry from families and advocacy groups ...

This video is no longer available. In March 1988, students at Gallaudet University in D.C., the world’s only liberal arts university for the Deaf and hard of hearing, sparked a civil rights movement ...

In the BritBox crime thriller “Code of Silence,” a deaf woman working in the canteen at a police station in Canterbury, England, is recruited by detectives when they need someone to read lips on ...

Wyatte C. Hall is an assistant professor of public-health sciences and researches deaf population health at the University of Rochester Medical Center, New York. I knew funding cuts would come to the ...

In a new documentary, “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore,” the star reflects on the joy, and pain, of being Hollywood’s first Oscar-winning Deaf actress. By Amanda Morris Marlee Matlin is a fighter. At ...