In 2017 Congress passed legislation that would let anyone buy hearing aids approved by the Food and Drug Administration without a prescription from an audiologist, Shira Ovide reports in The New York Times. The F.D.A. has missed a deadline to release draft guidelines for this new category, but...
On a recent afternoon in Brooklyn, Mervin Primeaux-O’Bryant and Brandon Kazen-Maddox were filming a music video, The New York Times reports. They were recording a cover version of “Midnight Train to Georgia,” but the voices that filled the room weren’t theirs. The sound came from Gladys...
Lured by the promise of winning a fortune in a “deaf lottery,” an elderly, deaf Connecticut man sent scammers $51,000 in late February, the Hartford Courant reports. Local police are working with the FBI and law enforcement in other states to collar the con artists behind what is now a nationwide...
TikTok has announced the launch of a new feature designed to make its app accessible to people who are hard of hearing or deaf, Tech Crunch reports. Today the company is debuting auto captions. When enabled, the feature will automatically transcribe the speech from a video so viewers can read...
Godzilla vs. Kong marks the feature film debut of Kaylee Hottle, an 8-year-old deaf actress who plays Jia, an orphaned girl who has a strong bond with Kong. Kaylee comes from an all-deaf family and the movie is her first feature film, Hollywood Life reports. Co-star Alexander Skarsgard learned...
Research at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has found that expert sign-watching behavior is already present in babies by about 5 months of age. Researcher and Assistant Professor Rain Bosworth and alumnus Adam Stone studied early-language knowledge in young infants and children by...
The confusing maze of websites, phone numbers, emails and paper documents required to sign up for a Covid vaccination in the United States is making it hard for people who are visually impaired or hard of hearing, the Boston Globe reports. Systems can vary by state and even by city, often forcing...
New York–based brand Private Policy has collaborated with activist, artist, and actor Chella Man on a line of jewelry that celebrates the beauty in the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, The Cut reports. The gold-plated jewelry was inspired by Chella Man’s artwork, and the accompanying...
Birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles can regenerate the hair cells inside their cochleas that transmit sound to the brain. Interviewed on NPR, Jim Hudspeth, a neuroscience researcher at Rockefeller University in New York City, explained: “In fact, some of these animals are losing them all...
National Public Radio’s Mary Louise Kelly, co-host of the network’s iconic ‘All Things Considered,’ has significant hearing loss. In a revealing interview with Manoush Zomorodi of the TED Radio Hour podcast, Kelly talked about her hearing loss and strategies she’s...
Countless deaf women have fought for personal and professional recognition, including for the right to vote, writes Joan Naturale in The Conversation. One of them was Annie Jump Cannon, a pioneering astronomer. Naturale writes: Born in 1863, she experienced progressive hearing loss starting at a...
Researchers in the United Arab Emirates have developed contact lenses that can help to correct color blindness, Medgadget reports. Containing gold nanoparticles, the lenses help to increase red-green contrast in wearers while also functioning as corrective lenses. Red-green color blindness can...
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