Hearing people often throw around the word “silence” when they talk about hiking. It’s common to frame the sounds of nature--waterfalls, birds, wind through the trees--as a form of silence, an escape ...

THE unwise attempt to keep up with a hearing world gives many deaf people a distracted air. It is, perhaps, unfortunate that we deafened can go so long without detection. The halt and blind are spared ...

“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 ...

Former Strictly Come Dancing champion Rose Ayling-Ellis has told her younger self being deaf is “your advantage”, in a message recorded for the National Deaf Children’s Society’s Deaf Awareness Week.

There are few things more heartwarming than videos of children with deafness gaining the ability to hear, showing them happily turning their heads at the sound of their parents' voices and joyfully ...