Surfdognw is a hearing spouse with a severely hard of hearing wife, and both are in their 50s. They recognize the need to learn sign language to keep communication flowing, but don’t know where to start. About.com readers have already been offering sug…

Sometimes political correctness and sensitivity to the deaf can go too far. In the United Kingdom, a group of small children is not being permitted to use a gesture that means “star,” because it is the same as the British sign for a female body part. (…

Here’s another of the Christmas need stories: this one is about a deaf 5 year old and his mother. The mother put her son in a school for the deaf – good. Her son wants a bicycle. At same time, mother says she does not know sign language. Wouldn’t learn…