I attended the 30th National Deaf-Blind Convention held in Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, and took a look at the equipment ...

A 22-year-old Kenyan engineer has developed robotic hands designed to help deaf children follow classroom lessons by converting teachers' spoken words into sign language in real time. Norah Kimathi, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I also hope the future of accessible technology includes affordability and distribution," Marshall says. "We've watched emerging ...

A powerful collaboration among two universities and a tech giant is working to develop a mobile app that will enable parents of deaf children to more easily learn American Sign Language. The game is ...

A new, $500,000 "grand challenge" hopes to change those numbers and the outcomes by encouraging people and organizations to come up with innovations for increasing access to local sign languages and ...

PROVO, Utah (AP) - Kim Smith knew from the start that video remote interpreting was going to become a problem. “I remember seeing that and thinking that is not going to work,” Smith, who is deaf, said ...