Despite being born with severe hearing loss, Matt Maxey, who has used hearing aids since age 2, wasn't introduced to American Sign Language (ASL) until his teens. Fittingly, given the Georgia native's ...
WEST SALEM, Wis. (WKBT) – People’s ears allow them to understand and communicate, but for some their sight provides what their hearing cannot. One country music festival provided people with the skill ...
Writer-director Siân Heder makes it very clear she knew the double meaning of “CODA,” the title of her new Apple TV Plus film, an acronym for Child of Deaf Adults. It’s used to describe the movie’s ...
Kidz Bop teamed up with ASL professionals and deaf performer Savvy, 12, to make some of their biggest hits accessible to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community Kidz Bop is launching an exciting new ...
When Ashley Danto's 3-year-old daughter Isla Jade was diagnosed as deaf and hard of hearing last March, Danto was not completely sure how to navigate the new world they were entering. Now, between ...
Nationally renowned Deaf poets and performing artists are coming to UC Santa Cruz for Eye Music–a four-day festival created and performed in American Sign Language (ASL). Running from November 12-15, ...
Through his work with Atlanta-based company Deafinitely Dope, rapper, educator, and Hull, Ga. native Shawn Self has used his life experiences as a deaf person to spread American Sign Language (ASL), ...
Music has a unique way of bringing people — and sometimes even animals — closer together. Whether it’s a catchy melody or a calming tune, songs can offer a sense of connection, comfort, and joy. But ...
There’s a scene in “American Idiot” when Will, a young man about to start a new life in the city with his friends, receives the unexpected news that he’s about to become a father. He gets left behind ...
Sean Forbes had expected to experience this year’s Super Bowl like usual — in front of a television. And so there Forbes will be Feb. 13 at L.A.’s SoFi Stadium, where he and fellow deaf rapper Warren ...
On Saturday, April 15—National American Sign Language (ASL) Day—Metallica announced that they will release ASL interpretations of every single music video for their new album, 72 Seasons. In an ...
It's really hard to upstage Carrie Underwood. Unless you are 9-year-old Savannah Dahan. The Maryland fourth grader, who is deaf, went viral in March for her incredible interpretation of Underwood's ...