Haben Girma, the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, advocates for people to celebrate her community and take action for accessibility for more than a month. Girma is an author ...

BOSTON -- Inside the halls of Massrobotics in Boston is a life-changing innovation. John Cunniff, who was born deaf and became mostly blind as a child, often needs a person with him in order to get ...

NEW YORK -- A short film nominated for an Oscar this year is breaking barriers. "Feeling Through" is the first movie ever to feature a man who is both deaf and blind in the lead role. It was made on ...

This year, Missouri became one of five states to devote substantial resources to residents who are Deaf-Blind; in other words, who are living with both hearing and vision loss. (The term is generally ...

MIDDLEVILLE, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES, June 26, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Deaf-Blindness is a “low-incidence” disability, which means that a small percentage of ...

This story hasn’t even started and already it’s wrong. Rather than forcing DeafBlind people to adapt to the seeing/hearing world, Protactile is based on their ability to understand through touch; that ...

DeafBlind people are creating a new language called Protactile, based solely on touch. Join author and disability rights advocate Rebecca Alexander as she meets the founders and educators of ...

After trying to speak to the man, Roland, 35, noticed he held a sign explaining that he was deaf and blind and needed help crossing the street. He then scribbled on a notebook that he also needed help ...

SANDS POINT, N.Y. (AP) — New technology and a federally funded program are helping low-income individuals who can’t see and hear access the Internet. Through a three-year pilot program called ...

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Telefónica and FASOCIDE (the Spanish acronym for the Federation of Deaf-Blind Persons Associations) presented the PervasiveSUB technology, ground-breaking ...

NEW YORK — Doug Roland, a filmmaker, was walking home from a night out at 4 a.m. in the East Village when he saw a man standing on a deserted street corner in need of help. After trying to speak to ...