While the COVID-19 pandemic has been a difficult time for society as a whole, certain groups have been experiencing less known challenges. In particular, deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals have had ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Deaf community were some of the last people to find out COVID-19 existed. "We found out last. Everything spread through the news and we can't hear it. We depend on reading the ...

FRESNO, Calif. -- Face masks are being used to help slow down the spread of COVID-19, but they're creating a unique issue for the deaf community - one that a Fresno woman is hoping to help with. Rosa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whatever your political or scientific stance is on face masks, one thing is certain: people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing face ...

Mandatory mask wearing saw more than 90 percent of deaf people struggle to communicate during the pandemic, research has revealed. It also discovered that 76 percent missed vital information and 59 ...

While most of CSUN classes are back to in-person learning, the deaf studies department is still fully online. Flavia Fleischer, chair and professor in the deaf studies department at CSUN, said that ...

“I’m sorry for participating in the deaf apocalypse.” For a hearing friend and me, this line, delivered in sign language, became a running gag early in the pandemic. She and I had moved in as ...

For many deaf people, communicating in a hearing world has always been a struggle and masks have made communication a lot harder. When deaf people are communicating with those who can't sign, some ...