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Deafness

Olga Sviridenko (left), who is deaf, signs with her family at a shelter in Romania. 

Navigating war without sound: Ukraine’s deaf refugees

Refugees

Romania’s local deaf community in Botoșani has welcomed at least 200 deaf people from Ukraine since the war began. They are focused on getting people to safety and ensuring that up-to-date information is available for sign language speakers.

Kunsthalle Osnabrück co-director Anna Jehle sits near colorful stained-glass windows inside a church.

The perplexing acoustics of an art show in northwest Germany

Arts, Culture & Media
Christine Sun Kim is shown signing and standing in front of her art featuring a pie chart titled "Shit Hearing People Say To Me."

Artist Christine Sun Kim on ‘deaf rage,’ the Super Bowl and the power of sound

Arts, Culture & Media

Interpreting music into American Sign Language

Arts, Culture & Media

Closed-captioning law to change internet

Global Politics

Expanding the Sign Language Lexicon for Science

Regardless of the state of the law, people with disabilities have been finding their own way in the able-bodied world for some time. Here’s a case of how technology is addressing an old challenge for deaf people.   In a highly technical field where terminology and vocabulary are highly specialized, how do you communicate efficiently? Sign […]

American Sign Language on the Brink of Extinction

American Sign Language could be a dying form of communication, thanks to dwindling education funding and technological alternatives.  Many deaf people are adamant that sign language will always be essential, but state budget cuts are threatening to close schools that teach it.  This adds to the existing debate in the deaf community, between those who  communicate with sounds […]

The World

New communications law mandates closed captioning on the internet

Conflict & Justice

Today, President Obama signs into law the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act. We talk with Melanie Humphrey-Sonntag, president of the National Court Reporters Association about what this means.