Latest Deaf culture News

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

May. 15, 2024 22:09 PM EDT

KASAMA, Zambia (AP) — Every morning, Bridget Chanda places her prosthetic legs beside her bed, pulls on her stockings and pushes the remains of her limbs into the prosthetics as best she can. After six years they no longer fit, and it's painful to stand or walk for too long, but it doesn't faze...

In some classrooms in Senegal, deaf and hard-of-hearing students now study alongside everyone else

Apr. 10, 2024 02:34 AM EDT

PIKINE, Senegal (AP) — Mouhamed Sall stepped to the chalkboard with a glance and quick question in sign language to an assistant. Then he solved the exercise to the silent approval of his classmates, who waved their hands in a display of appreciation. Sall and three other students...