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 ...

Hearing people see deafness as a disability that needs to be remediated so that deaf people can fit in. But that’s not how the deaf view themselves.

Disability and the Victorians is a collection of essays that discuss such topics as deafness, blindness, language delay and the portrayal of characters with disabilities in popular fiction, all ...

Inside Deaf Culture is a fascinating account of the rise of group identity among deaf people, primarily those who use American Sign Language. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries of the University of ...

MASS Design Group design director Jeffrey Mansfield recently won a $50,000 Disability Futures Fellowship to develop an archive of Deaf spaces. Here's why that's important for both the Deaf ...

Instead, Heringer was quickly embraced for sharing her disability on such a large platform and realized that there was a big opportunity to educate audiences on what living with deafness really ...

Peter V. Paul, Philosophy of Deafness, American Annals of the Deaf, Vol. 163, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 5-12 ...

As words and actions matter, business leaders must learn to be intentional about how they speak about disability to be inclusive to their many stakeholders.

A British actress who appeared opposite Gal Gadot in “Wonder Woman 1984” is “coming out” as “moderately” deaf after keeping her disability a secret in showbiz for more than a decade ...

Hearing people see deafness as a disability that needs to be remediated so that deaf people can fit in. But that’s not how the deaf view themselves.