When their newborn failed a hearing test, Quinn and Kai were distraught. Their pediatrician reassured them their baby was a candidate for a cochlear implant – an electronic device consisting of an ...

When a new baby is born in the United States, they are usually given a newborn hearing screening. If the baby is found to be deaf, parents are presented with a choice for their child: sign language or ...

More than half of deaf children in the U.S. start the first day of preschool or kindergarten with a significant language delay. And it's because their parents either didn't use sign language, or ...

An in-depth look at how language deprivation can cause deaf children to fall behind. Nine out of ten deaf children are born to hearing parents. That means that for many parents, the first deaf person ...

Currently, there is no standard process for assessing deaf children under five. Kids with hearing loss sometimes arrive at kindergarten with “language deprivation,” meaning they don’t know as many ...