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...
An international clinical trial conducted through the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has helped a patient suffering from childhood blindness gain vision after a single injection into the patient’s eye, The Hill reports. The potentially groundbreaking research was...
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...
Drinking alcohol on a regular basis may decrease patients’ chances of developing cataracts that require surgery, Ophthalmology Times reports. And wine consumption has the strongest protective effect against cataracts, due mostly to the abundance of antioxidants found in red wine, according to...
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...
It took dozens of vision tests to find out what was happening to Logan Galloway’s eyesight. Ultimately, he was diagnosed at 3-years-old with an extremely rare genetic eye disease called Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), Denver’s Channel 9 News reports. Shortly after Logan’s...
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...
Apple is researching having adjustable lenses in “Apple Glass” that detect a wearer’s eyesight and reconfigure themselves to present the clearest vision, Apple Insider reports. Apple had already been granted a patent for swapping out different lenses to suit wearers of an...
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...
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