Today marks the launch of 711, a nationwide access number for telephone relay services that bridge the communication gap between the hearing and the hearing impaired. Under the relay system, used in ...

Walter Niesluchowski and Karen Hager are experiencing a technical revolution: mobility. For the deaf like Niesluchowski and Hager, advances in wireless communications represent a breakthrough perhaps ...

TALLADEGA, Ala. | Quietly over the last decade, phones that make text messaging easy have changed life profoundly for millions of deaf people. Gone are the days of a deaf person driving to someone’s ...

Sign language, lip reading and speech training helped James Marsters get through college and dental school and made it possible for him to succeed as an orthodontist. He could communicate very well ...