Deaf culture

Bob Madden, center, and his son Jonathan, left, watch the Stanley Cup hockey final from a couch, Monday, June 10, 2024 in Genoa Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

NHL in ASL returns, delivering American Sign Language analysis for Deaf community at Winter Classic

The NHL is partnering with P-X-P to serve the Deaf community, creating an alternate telecast for the Winter Classic that features analysis in American Sign Language.
 
Entrepreneur Matebogo Victoria communicates using a sign language during an interview with The Associated Press at the Westonaria agricultural park near Bekkersdal, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

A farming project in South Africa is helping deaf people build skills and find jobs

 
Gallaudet women's volleyball head coach Lynn Ray Boren uses American Sign Language to communicate with his team while their team prepares for the upcoming Division III NCAA Tournament, during a practice Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Gallaudet women’s volleyball team is signing, quietly winning and rolling into the NCAA Tournament

 
Interpreter Adriano Romin speaks sign language in a studio inside a shipping container for a performance by Brazilian singer Pedro Sampaio at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Rock in Rio’s sign language pumps up Brazil’s deaf audience

 
In this photo provided by Nissan on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, workers of Nissan's plant’s Paint Shop including John Johnson, foreground right and Michael Connolly, foreground, second left, pose for a photo at the plant, in Sunderland, England. (Matt Walker/Nissan via AP)

Autoworkers learn sign language hoping connection with deaf colleagues improves work and lives

 

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Farming project in South Africa helps deaf people build skills and find jobs

At the Westonaria agricultural park near Bekkersdal, east of Johannesburg, farm workers are busy tilling the soil and planting tomatoes and lettuce. Despite the hive of activity, there is silence around the park. Most people here are deaf and communicate using sign language.
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Bob Madden, center, and his son Jonathan, left, watch the Stanley Cup hockey final from a couch, Monday, June 10, 2024 in Genoa Township, Mich. Madden is deaf and he was enjoying the view with access to the commentary delivered in American Sign Language for the first time during a sporting event. The NHL became the first major sports league to offer play by play and analysis in ASL during a live broadcast. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

The Stanley Cup Final in American Sign Language is a welcome addition for Deaf community

 
Florida Panthers center Steven Lorentz (18) skates with the puck as New York Rangers left wing Will Cuylle (50) defends during the second period of Game 6 in the Eastern Conference finals of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs Saturday, June 1, 2024, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

NHL to broadcast Stanley Cup Final games in American Sign Language, a 1st for a major sports league

 
Students, many who are deaf or hard of hearing, from Chileshe Chepela Special School react as Bridget Chanda, center, signs for them during a climate smart technique lesson on drip irrigation outside a garden at the school in Kasama, Zambia, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Chanda is intent on helping educate Zambia’s deaf community about climate change. As the southern African nation has suffered from more frequent extreme weather, including its current severe drought, it’s prompted the Zambian government to include more climate change education in its school curriculum. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

As Zambia schools take on climate change, one teen is spreading the word in sign language

 

Zambian teen spreads the word about climate change in sign language

 

Members of Gaza Strip’s deaf and hard of hearing community face unique difficulties in ongoing war

 
Rachael Sloat, fiance of victim Peyton Brewer Ross, in framed photo, testifies, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Augusta, Maine, during a hearing of the independent commission investigating the law enforcement response to the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Tearful relatives of Maine mass shooting victims plead for change to prevent future tragedies

 
From left, Kathy Lebel, Tom Giberti and Samantha Juray, attend a benefit concert in Lewiston, Maine on Jan. 6, 2024. Immediately after Maine's deadliest mass shooting, the owners of the bowling alley and the bar in Lewiston where the gunman killed a total of 18 people were certain their doors were closed for good. Yet as time passed, they came to the same conclusion: They had to reopen. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)

Business owners thought they would never reopen after Maine’s deadliest shooting. Then support grew

 
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf (14) sprints to the end zone to score a touchdown after making a catch as Dallas Cowboys cornerback DaRon Bland (26) gives chase in the first half of an NFL football game in Arlington, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Ainsworth)

Seahawks’ Metcalf hopes to gain right kind of attention learning and using American Sign Language

 
A football helmet developed by Gallaudet University with AT&T for Deaf and hard-of-hearing players is seen during Gallaudet football practice at Hotchkiss Field in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. The innovation is the latest example of the private university for the Deaf and hard of hearing in Washington being an incubator for technology that makes sports and life more inclusive. The way the helmet works by replacing audio with visual cues could also have far-reaching applications into the real world. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Gallaudet has a history of technological innovation with wide applications. The latest is a helmet

 
In this undated photo provided by Elizabeth Seal, American Sign Language interpreter Josh Seal poses with his wife, Elizabeth. Josh Seal was one of four deaf people killed in last week's mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine. (Elizabeth Seal via AP)

Deaf family grieves father of 4 and beloved community leader who was killed in Maine shootings

 
Heart-shaped cut-outs with messages of positivity adorns trees in downtown Lewiston, Maine, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. The signs are some of the 100 hearts put up by Miaa Zellner of Turner, Maine, to show her love and support for the community in the wake of Wednesday's mass shootings. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Maine’s close-knit deaf community is grieving in the wake of shootings that killed 4 beloved members

 
These photos provided by the Maine Department of Public Safety shows victims of the Maine Shooting, Top from left, Ronald G. Morin, Peyton Brewer-Ross, Joshua A. Seal, Bryan M. MacFarlane, Joseph Lawrence Walker, Arthur Fred Strout. Second row from left, Maxx A. Hathaway, Stephen M. Vozzella, Thomas Ryan Conrad, Michael R. Deslauiers II, Jason Adam, Tricia C. Asselin. Third Row from left, William A. Young, Aaron Young, Robert E. Violette and Lucille M. Violette, William Frank, Keith D. Macneir. (Maine Department of Public Safety via AP)

A teen bowler, a shipbuilder and a sign language interpreter are among the Maine shooting victims

 
This image released by Sesame Workshop shows Ariana DeBose, right, with muppet characters, from left, Elmo, Cookie Monster and Abby Cadabby on the set of the children's show "Sesame Street." (Richard Termine/Sesame Workshop via AP)

Upcoming ‘Sesame Street’ season stars Ariana DeBose, Brandi Carlile, ASL and an octopus chef

 

Deaf family grieves father of 4 who was killed in Maine shootings

 

Vigil held to honor Maine’s mass shooting victims