Topic description and stories

Female students in an Indian classroom. Photo: Yogendra Singh via Unsplash

Make Indian Sign Language official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, study advises

17 Mar 2025

Around one in five (over 19%) of India’s deaf and hard-of-hearing children were out-of-school in 2014, according to a survey conducted for the Indian...

Read more

Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound

01 Oct 2019

Deafness in early childhood is known to lead to lasting changes in how sounds are processed in the brain, but new research published today in eLife...

Read more

Noises off: the machine that rubs out noise

02 Oct 2013

Future hearing aids could be adjusted by the wearer to remove background noise using new technology that could also be used to clean up and search...

Read more