Growing up in a Korean community in California, sound artist Christine Sun Kim was taught to “tone things down” and not be so expressive at family gatherings. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Christine Sun Kim’s poetic and political art pushes viewers to consider the limits, and misunderstandings, that come with communication in any language, whether spoken or signed. By Andrew Russeth ...

"The Simpsons" will feature a deaf actor on Sunday for the first time in its 33-year history. Even though the characters in the show have only four fingers, they'll use American Sign Language in the ...

In “Sound of Metal,” now streaming on Amazon Prime, Riz Ahmed portrays a drummer whose world flips upside down when he suddenly loses his hearing. In order to communicate, he learns American Sign ...

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity." -- Eleanor Roosevelt Finding playful ways to reward ...

In “Sound of Metal,” Riz Ahmed plays Ruben, a heavy metal musician who gradually loses his hearing. The film, bowing Friday on Amazon Prime, follows Ruben as he copes with his hearing loss. Director ...

March 10 (UPI) --Riz Ahmed discussed learning sign language for his film Sound of Metal and what he learned from the deaf community along the way on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Ahmed spent ...

New research is stirring fierce debate over the use of sign language among young deaf children who use surgical implants that create a sense of sound. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, ...