Hearview makes smart glasses that transcribe speech to text in real-time letting deaf and hard of hearing people participate ...

In a world where spoken language is the norm, sign languages empower deaf and hard-of-hearing people to communicate with ...

The disabled community in Hollywood reminds their able-bodied colleagues to help join in the fight for equality and inclusion ...

A bipartisan bill that would electronically alert police officers in New Jersey during a traffic stop that a driver is hard ...

All the letters of the alphabet except /q/,/w/, /x/, and /y/ are within the speech banana. Also within the speech banana are the letter combinations /th/, /ch/, /sh/, and /ng/. Those letter ...

advocating for tools that could make deaf children hear and academic curricula designed to encourage speech. A former nurse (and secondary antagonist in the film), Zinser is presented as the ...

except for three participants who reported becoming deaf before the age of 3. Self-reported hearing thresholds ranged from 85 to 120 decibels (dB). Some of the participants used hearing aids during ...

Kaiden passed his newborn hearing test, but by the time he was two, his mom Brooke noticed he stopped saying the handful of ...

Sensorion's gene therapy for otoferlin-related hearing loss – a congenital form of deafness – has shown early signs of improving hearing in two toddlers treated in a phase 1/2 trial.

Eli Lilly’s acquisition of gene therapy specialist Akouos seems to have paid off, after the lead candidate in the deal restored hearing in a child with congenital deafness. The AK-OTOF therapy ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — Various diseases can be treated by stimulating the vagus nerve in the ear with electrical signals. However, this technique does not always work. A study has now shown: The ...