Syracuse, N.Y. -- When Heather Patrick was growing up, she knew she was different. At the age of 16, she was diagnosed with autism. She graduated from high school at 21, and went from one community ...

Courtney, a hearing mom whose husband is deaf, shared a video teaching her 7-month-old daughter how to sign so she can communicate with her dad Responding to comments from people who said her daughter ...

As a child, Babs Haggin-Roy didn’t like her name. She wished she could have been Barbara or even Barb, but her mother chose to name her Babette. In what may have been a fit of middle school angst, ...