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April 15, the last day of Deaf History Month, celebrates the anniversary of the establishment of the first school for the Deaf in the United States. Strides to make education more accessible for the ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District is poised to vote on a controversial proposal that could reshape education for thousands of deaf and hard-of-hearing students, a key battle in a long national ...

Born Deaf, Chennai-based Shraddha Agarwal built SignSetu — a bilingual Indian Sign Language (ISL) platform that helps Deaf ...

When it comes to hiring new teachers, the Texas School for the Deaf faces steep competition. Officials estimate only about 300 new college graduates enter the deaf education workforce nationwide each ...

How should Milwaukee Public Schools go about teaching deaf and hard of hearing students? That is the question a task force is exploring after complaints from the Deaf community and parents of deaf ...

Delaware is building a new, state-of-the-art school for the deaf. But it arrives at a time when medical advances are enabling more deaf children to take part in mainstream education. Hearing implants ...

Michele Bergeron knows that her 5-year-old son, who’s deaf, likes watermelon and pizza. He’s obsessed with airplanes, wants to play football, likes books about Spider-Man and someday wants to be tall ...

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