Family

Holiday photos with a Deaf child can be wonderful or disastrous, depending mostly on whether the adults running the camera understand what the child needs.

Building family rituals that include a Deaf child doesn’t require flipping your whole holiday upside down. Ten small, practical ideas that start today.

There are still about 70 schools for the Deaf operating in the United States, though the landscape has changed dramatically. Here’s an overview of what they are, how they differ, and how to find one near you.

Most hearing families try hard. They still get certain things wrong — not from indifference, but from never having been told. Here are the patterns we see most often.

Not all signing is the same. ASL, SEE, and PSE are three different systems that hearing families often encounter without knowing the difference. Here’s what each one is, when you’ll see it, and how to choose.

You don’t need to be fluent in sign language to make a Deaf child feel included this holiday season. Five signs, learned in five minutes, can change the whole moment.