Many people refer to a stroke as the brain’s equivalent of a heart attack. A stroke occurs when there’s an interruption or ...

Speech-to-sign language translation software written by a team from Thailand won the main category of a Microsoft-sponsored software development contest for students, the Imagine Cup, on Thursday. The ...

For most students, a laptop or a college-ruled notebook is enough to get through most lecture classes at the University. For hearing impaired students, the process is much more challenging. They need ...

A glove has been developed that translates sign language into speech in real time. Scientists from the University of California, LA, created a “inexpensive, flexible and highly durable” device that is ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. The student is now in 10th grade, but ...

Speech, language and hearing sciences (SLHS) is the study of the various abilities of human communication and its disorders. Our students gain an understanding of communication, audiology and ...