Communication

Sign languages are natural languages that use visual and manual modality, with handshapes, movement, location, facial expression, ...

Lip reading, more broadly called speechreading, is understanding speech by watching the movements of the lips, face, and tongue to...

Eight handshapes in four positions near the mouth, cues, make every speech sound visibly distinct, solving the lip reading ambigui...

VRS lets Deaf signers call anyone: they sign to an interpreter on video, the interpreter voices to the hearing party, relaying rep...

Hearing dogs are assistance dogs trained to alert deaf and hard of hearing people to important sounds, such as doorbells, alarm cl...

Fingerspelling represents the letters of a written alphabet with hand configurations and is used within sign languages for names, ...

Deaf culture refers to the shared values, history, arts, and social norms of communities whose members use a sign language and see...

Auditory verbal therapy is an approach for children who are deaf or hard of hearing that aims to develop spoken language mainly th...