Researchers at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., are recruiting students for an unprecedented longitudinal study of deaf children in the first stages of learning to read, in hopes of ...

Early shared reading experiences have been shown to benefit normally hearing children. It has been hypothesized that hearing parents of deaf or hard-of-hearing children may be uncomfortable or may ...

Liam Mohan-Litchfield twisted and manipulated his tiny hands, using sign language to read before a white miniature horse named Thor. "I read a book about my shoes," 7-year-old Liam signed to an ...

Historically, one of the issues in the education of deaf children has been whether reading achievement is related to parental method of communication. Although deaf children of signing deaf parents ...

Dec. 9—Liam Mohan-Litchfield twisted and manipulated his tiny hands, using sign language to read before a white miniature horse named Thor. "I read a book about my shoes," 7-year-old Liam signed to an ...

HUAWEI has launched StorySign, an app that teaches deaf children to read. The app supports ten sign languages right now, with one book for each language. StorySign is compatible with Android devices ...

WITH LOWS BELOW FREEZING. BRIAN, THANKS. A VERY SPECIAL DAY AT THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. AS WE WRAP UP, READING ACROSS AMERICA WEEK TODAY, STUDENTS GOT THE CHANCE TO READ TO ...

Margaret Danowski was a busy mother of five living in downtown Reading when her 5-year-old daughter Rita was diagnosed with hearing loss in 1964. In those days, services for the deaf were virtually ...