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 ...
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Woman Born Deaf and Blind Gets Her Medical Degree, Relies on ‘Naturally Heightened’ Sense of Touch
Alexandra Adams says the biggest hurdle in becoming the U.K.’s first DeafBlind doctor has been discrimination, not disability ...
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, ...
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 ...
Sara Nović’s two oldest sons are two peas in a pod but are both very different in their own right. “K is like an outside guy ...
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Helen Keller is a deaf-blind hero, but also ‘just like all of us’ (Enable: The Disability Podcast)
A new documentary about Keller's legacy is the first feature-length film created by blind and low-vision filmmakers.
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 ...
Deaf women are twice as likely to experience domestic violence—how perpetrators weaponize disability
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 ...
Nehemiah Danjuma has etched his name in Nigeria's legal history after being called to the Bar, becoming the first deaf lawyer ...
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