Joanne Milne is a 40-year-old woman from Gateshead, England, born with Usher Syndrome, a rare and devastating genetic disorder that left her deaf since birth and blind since her twenties. Recently, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Violet Benson, creator of the popular "Daddy Issues" Instagram account, got her first hearing aid at 36. Now she's ready to talk ...

After years of struggles with hearing loss, Bonnie Covey's personal story of restoration has helped others with their ...

There’s a telling moment in poet Raymond Antrobus’s memoir, The Quiet Ear – his first book of prose – where he describes being told, aged six, that he is deaf. The doctor shows him a graph of the ...

Jonni Parker launched Chasing Greatness, a charitable organization that provides funding for kids to receive hearing aids and educates on hearing health Parker had three sets of hearing aids before ...

My name is Sue Loumgair and I am profoundly deaf. I have previously had a hearing dog, Gerry who is pictured, and I am ...

Children who are deaf or hard of hearing may experience higher rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) than their ...

Hearing loss is not something anyone really prepares for, even though it affects roughly 1 in 7 Americans, according to the Hearing Loss Association of America. That makes it twice as common as ...

Violet Benson always struggled to hear in her left ear, but it took her years to realize how big the problem was — and even longer to do something about it. The Daddy Issues meme account creator, ...