There are nearly 45,000 people in Shelby County who are considered deaf or hard of hearing. In this week's Family Focus, FOX13 visited a summer camp that's teaching children how to have a conversation ...

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Five years ago the staff at Ken Gan's auto repair shop told him they needed to find a better way of communicating with deaf customers. "I said, let me go shopping -- I'll buy you whatever's out there, ...

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The current class of NYPD recruits — 600 strong — learned basic American Sign Language as part of their training, enabling them to better communicate with deaf people during emergencies. Jessica ...

BOSTON -- Inside the halls of Massrobotics in Boston is a life-changing innovation. John Cunniff, who was born deaf and became mostly blind as a child, often needs a person with him in order to get ...

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 ...

The communication differences and needs or wants of the deaf are not top-of-mind for most hearing people. There isn't a general realization that a gap exists, and that gap represents a commonality ...