CEBU CITY—A nongovernmental organization working to prevent sexual abuse among Deaf children has recorded six cases of rape in June, the highest incidence on a per-month basis since it started ...

For the first time, researchers will examine the impact of domestic abuse on families when children of deaf mothers are relied upon to interpret, highlighting the trauma these children may endure as ...

Reforms ordered by Gov. Gary Locke are being adopted at the Washington School for the Deaf, but the leader of an advocacy group says the governor owes students abused at the state facility something ...

Six men, including three uncles and three brothers, face 20 total charges.

A new study at Rochester Institute of Technology indicates that the incidence of maltreatment, including neglect and physical and sexual abuse, is more than 25 percent higher among deaf and ...

Sandra Simpson can see but can't hear the tiny cries of her son, born just three minutes after she rushed into a Seattle hospital 11 days ago. Blond, blue-eyed Kristopher is now the youngest resident ...

As in Argentina, deaf students from the Provolo schools in Verona, Italy, kept their experiences of sexual abuse to themselves for years. But after they started opening up, they worked from bottom to ...

When Bob and April called us from a small nearby town, they were desperate. A few houses down from where they lived a person was continually beating a dog. They didn’t know what to do. We couldn’t ...

A new report warns Deaf women experiencing domestic abuse in Scotland remain "effectively invisible" due to the chronic absence of specialist services and a lack of coordinated national support.