A new paper in Pediatric Annals lays out what good care looks like for deaf and hard of hearing kids: put full language access first, connect families to early intervention and deaf mentors, and learn from deaf people and families. Sign language is a complete language, not a backup, and it does not hold back spoken language.

"Parent choice" requires informed parents, backed by support.

Our recent study, in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development " Hearing parents as sign language learners" by Elana...

Research tells us that exposing deaf and hard of hearing children to ASL from an early age has a wide range of benefits, spanning...