Colleen and Susannah Agnew are calling for better deaf awareness [BBC] A health trust has apologised to a deaf couple after hospital staff did not know what a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter ...

MedStar Washington Hospital Center has installed an innovative videophone booth for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing to communicate with others in real-time. The Sorenson Video Relay Service® (SVRS®) ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

A review by STAT of court records and inspection reports of hospitals around the nation found dozens of instances in which deaf patients said they were not given adequate interpreter services. In one ...

After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley’s baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.

In a settlement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, Beverly (Mass.) Hospital has promised to expand interpreter services for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, according to a release from ...