YOUNGSTOWN — There’s a mantra Mackenzie Goranitis brings to her job every day: “a deaf person can do anything a hearing person can do … except hear.” She is the deaf and hard of hearing support ...

An increasing number of deaf and hard-of-hearing kids in the U.S. are receiving cochlear implants – electrical conductors surgically inserted into the inner ear to stimulate the nerve responsible for ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Being surrounded by hearing individuals doesn’t stop Dorothy Voyda from finding ways to communicate with them. Voyda, 38, was born hearing but due to an unknown cause, she lost the sense ...

Deaf women in the United States experience rates of domestic and sexual violence one-and-a-half times higher than their hearing counterparts, according to the Vera Institute of Justice. Whenever a ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Support and engagement with the local deaf community is growing. Frontier Health’s Communication Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing hosted its monthly gathering for ...