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, ...

Atabor JuliusThe need to enhance the wellbeing and protection of the human rights of people with special needs has been described as a catalyst to guarantee their meaningfully contributions to the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Haben Girma is an author, lawyer, speaker and disability rights advocate who’s been honored by world leaders including Justin ...

Jaipreet Virdi was living and teaching in Canada, where she had grown up and earned her doctorate in the history of science, technology and medicine, when she found out about a job opening on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Jerry C. Lee stepped down as president of Gallaudet University, a Washington D.C. higher learning institution for deaf and ...

The alarming rise in reports of domestic violence and intimate-partner homicides has led to increased media attention and heightened awareness in our communities. The royal commission found 40% of ...

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 ...