The Universal Drum is an experimental work in development that explores the harmony of Deaf and Hearing worlds through drums. This piece integrates new music, drama, and American Sign Language (ASL) ...

Portland’s Third Angle New Music will debut a new commissioned piece at its upcoming show on April 16 at OMSI’s Kendall Planetarium. The composition, called “Spheres,” was written for percussion ...

High school senior Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris spent the first seven years of his life in silence. Born deaf, he didn’t have any formal way of communicating with his peers. “I would have classes and I ...

Since the meeting of poets Allen Ginsberg and Robert Panara at the National Institute for the Deaf in 1984 a new Deaf poetics has emerged. The centrality of the image as the essence of poetry is the ...

As Kumar Singh takes the stage at The Venue in Orlando, some audience members are still finishing their conversations. Singh rallies the crowd and makes a plea for a round of applause. Most of the ...

More than 90 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents, which can be problematic when the first few years of a child’s life are critical to language development. But a new dictionary ...