Deaf patients face major gaps in stroke care, from poor ASL health literacy to interpreter barriers, undermining discharge ...

YOUNGSTOWN — There’s a mantra Mackenzie Goranitis brings to her job every day: “a deaf person can do anything a hearing person can do … except hear.” She is the deaf and hard of hearing support ...

Deaf women in the United States experience rates of domestic and sexual violence one-and-a-half times higher than their hearing counterparts, according to the Vera Institute of Justice. Whenever a ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Being surrounded by hearing individuals doesn’t stop Dorothy Voyda from finding ways to communicate with them. Voyda, 38, was born hearing but due to an unknown cause, she lost the sense ...

Member of the Iowa City Deaf community Robert Vizzini scribbled down some notes an interpreter provided to him, but when it was finally his turn to speak at a Cedar Rapids school board meeting, the ...

LOS ANGELES -- Until Sunday night's Oscars, Marlee Matlin had for over three decades been the only deaf person to receive an Academy Award. That streak broke Sunday at the 94th Academy Awards, when ...

A mixed media piece currently on display at the University of New England Art Gallery in Portland, in an exhibit titled "Unspoken Resilience," reflects the Deaf experience.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Rochester area is home to one of the largest per capita populations of deaf people in the country, according to the city’s website. However, a non-partisan group has raised ...