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, ...
About half of the time someone is born totally deaf, it’s because of their genetic makeup. Those people are typically treated with cochlear implants, but now researchers from Europe and the U.S. are ...
The operation raised €60 million, a third of which came from Sanofi, which will hold 13.9% of the company's shares.
Children with hereditary deafness regained their hearing thanks to a type of gene therapy, a new study published on Wednesday found. In a clinical trial, co-led by investigators from Mass Eye and Ear, ...
A team of researchers has kicked off the first-ever trial of a gene therapy intended to cure auditory neuropathy, a type of deafness that stops nerve impulses from making it from the inner ear to the ...
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 ...
TV representation like having a deaf character in Peppa Pig is vital, writes National Deaf Children's Society CEO George ...
Conversations have two parts – listening and talking. But those who are deaf don’t simply lose one of those parts; they often have trouble with both. Hearing people speak is how we learn to speak ...
In 2005 Josh Swiller and his brother, Sam, received cochlear implants and partially recovered their hearing. As a deaf child growing up in Manhattan, Josh Swiller would often take out his frustration ...
Twelve years after filmmaker Irene Taylor Broadsky documented her how her parents live with deafness in the Peabody-winning documentary Hear And Now, she returns to her family for her new documentary.
Are you one of the more than 8 million people who've seen the Duracell Trust Your Power video? The video features Seattle Seahawks offensive lineman Derrick Coleman, who will become the first legally ...