Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.

A Chick-fil-A cashier noticed Luca, a 4-year-old who's hard of hearing, practicing ordering his own food. He then did ...

Tucked away in trendy East London in a converted old train car is the Dialogue Express Café. The coffee shop is run entirely by deaf and hard-of-hearing staff. Owner Hakan Elbir, an advocate for ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...

Ted Evans’ “Retreat” takes place outside society: Its characters, living in a compound called Chilmark, share a deaf identity but refuse to call themselves deaf, declaring that that label was foisted ...

What the skibidi is happening to the English language? "Skibidi," pronounced SKI-bih-dee, is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this year to ...

Njattyela Sreedharan, a self-taught linguist whose monumental work linked four Dravidian languages in a single dictionary, passed away early Thursday (August 13, 2025) while undergoing treatment for ...

Two summers ago, Zach Swain took his future father-in-law, Paul, to shoot some hoops, but he had an ulterior motive — he wanted to ask permission to marry Paul's daughter, Hallie Kulick. “He was like, ...

Raymond Antrobus and Zoë McWhinney have been shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prizes for Poetry; this is the first year the prize has been open to poems performed in British Sign Language. Deaf poet ...