Deaf since the age of 4, deaf actor and drummer Bob Hiltermann was born on this day (August 1, 1952) in Germany, the 10th of eleven children born. A bout with meningitis left him deaf but he wasn't diagnosed until the age of ten. Hiltermann learned ASL while attending Gallaudet University and later formed MuSign  (a Signing/Mime company). He acted with Marlee Matlin in Children of a Lesser God,  was featured in See What I'm Saying  and The Hammer , he created ASL videos calle

K-pop’s first deaf group , Big Ocean, is composed entirely of deaf and hard-of-hearing artists.  Members include PJ (a YouTuber who educated viewers about deaf culture), Jiseok (a professional ski racer) and Chanyeon (who worked as an audiologist and wears a hearing device with Bluetooth that streams music to him directly from mobile devices.). Big Ocean incorporates sign language into their performances, including Korean Sign Language, American Sign Language and Internationa

Deaf Finnish rap artist Signmark (Marko Vuoriheimo) was born on this day (June 26) in Helsinki, Finland in 1978. image from myhelsinki.fi...

Signed music is not the same as ASL interpretations or translations of audible songs. Instead, it derives from the shared experiences in...

Singer Calum Scott has created an ASL video of his single 'Biblical' with help from Deaf West Theatre. The song first appeared in June,...

A video of ASL interpreter Kelly Kurdi at Lollapalooza got lots of shares last week—perhaps for the wrong reasons, Erin Bunch reports on...