In a discovery that could help instructors better teach deaf children, a team of University of Chicago researchers has found that a gesture-sign mismatch made while explaining a math problem suggests that a deaf child is experiencing a teachable moment.

Deaf people who use sign language are quicker at recognizing and interpreting body language than hearing non-signers.

On Thursday, Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., opened its new Brain and Language Laboratory designed to study how people learn and convey language.

The Hearing and Speech Agency hosts "Baltimore's Biggest ASL Class" in honor of Deaf Awareness Week and as part of a week-long series of events for the Deaf community and for the

NEW YORK, July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 26, 2011, Mark Zaurov, a deaf Ph.D.