In the 1930s and '40s, the husband-and-wife team of Fritz and Grace Heider conducted educational research at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Massachusetts. Although schools for the deaf had been ...

The California School for the Deaf’s Fremont campus will soon start offering a day program for adolescents with a daunting set of educational challenges: autism or severe developmental disabilities, ...

People’s perception of a “disability” is the result of careful social construction, writes Harlan Lane, and that is seen most clearly among deaf people. Mr. Lane, a professor of psychology at ...

Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD) announced today that it has appointed Karen Peltz Strauss to its Board of Directors. Peltz Strauss is one of the most respected disability rights attorneys and ...

As a design director who was born Deaf, Jeffrey Mansfield has long been interested in the relationship between Deafness and physical spaces. He has noticed how spaces designed with Deafness in mind, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Jerry C. Lee stepped down as president of Gallaudet University, a Washington D.C. higher learning institution for deaf and ...

Jaipreet Virdi was living and teaching in Canada, where she had grown up and earned her doctorate in the history of science, technology and medicine, when she found out about a job opening on the ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) – A Pearl City High School athlete is charging through life despite some hurdles along the way. Malosi Viena, an all-star two-sport athlete, has battled obstacles on and off the court ...