People’s perception of a “disability” is the result of careful social construction, writes Harlan Lane, and that is seen most clearly among deaf people. Mr. Lane, a professor of psychology at ...

In the 1930s and '40s, the husband-and-wife team of Fritz and Grace Heider conducted educational research at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Massachusetts. Although schools for the deaf had been ...

The California School for the Deaf’s Fremont campus will soon start offering a day program for adolescents with a daunting set of educational challenges: autism or severe developmental disabilities, ...

Ronald Sutcliffe, an advocate, mentor and supporter of the Deaf community, wrote the definitive history of the Iowa School ...

Interpreting Disability is a refreshingly honest look at real life as faced by people with disabilities. Its three essays preface an important ecumenical statement on the place of persons with ...

Toby Wong is a late-deafened board director & marketer breaking barriers. Supports Gold House, Collective Visibility & Disability Belongs. deaf female business executive using a cochlear implant ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When Jerry C. Lee stepped down as president of Gallaudet University, a Washington D.C. higher learning ...

The World Foundation of the Deaf (WFD) has estimated that there are about 72 million deaf people in the world with a significant number of this is in developing countries. However, like in other ...