About half of the time someone is born totally deaf, it’s because of their genetic makeup. Those people are typically treated with cochlear implants, but now researchers from Europe and the U.S. are ...

Eli Lilly and Regeneron are leading the push to treat congenital deafness with gene therapies, seeking a piece of a potential ...

As a design director who was born Deaf, Jeffrey Mansfield has long been interested in the relationship between Deafness and physical spaces. He has noticed how spaces designed with Deafness in mind, ...

Children with hereditary deafness regained their hearing thanks to a type of gene therapy, a new study published on Wednesday found. In a clinical trial, co-led by investigators from Mass Eye and Ear, ...

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 ...

Conversations have two parts – listening and talking. But those who are deaf don’t simply lose one of those parts; they often have trouble with both. Hearing people speak is how we learn to speak ...

In 2005 Josh Swiller and his brother, Sam, received cochlear implants and partially recovered their hearing. As a deaf child growing up in Manhattan, Josh Swiller would often take out his frustration ...

Approximately 430 million people live with disabling hearing loss, and 26 million individuals are affected by congenital hearing loss, with 60% of cases attributed to genetic factors. Given the large ...

We had just moved to Beijing, China, where my husband had been transferred for his job with the State Department. I was still getting used to a new house, a new language, new foods and new friends. I ...