NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- This year's Teacher Appreciation Week is taking on a special meaning during these challenging times, as educators learn to teach remotely during the coronavirus pandemic.

Major events often add to our collective vocabulary, but most of those events are short lived. That has not been the case with the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, this is the longest major event in the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to control it had a significant impact on all our lives. This impact continues to be felt by families who raised children during the pandemic ...

Face masks are, for most, at worst an inconvenience — maybe resulting in some blemishes or fogged-up eyeglasses. But for those who are deaf, face coverings take away a key form of understanding and ...

As we hit the second anniversary of the first confirmed U.S. case of COVID-19, the pandemic continues to impact our day-to-day life in ways big and small, right down to the very language we use. Among ...

The language status of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 may significantly impact health outcomes during their admission, as non-English speaking individuals were found to have 35 percent greater ...

The National Association of the Deaf and five deaf Americans are suing the White House in an attempt to force President Donald Trump and other top officials to have American Sign Language interpreters ...

Several local Michigan health departments scrambled Thursday, trying to decide whether to rescind school mask mandates and COVID-19 quarantine rules for fear they could lose state funding because of ...

Patients who had limited proficiency with English or preferred the use of another language had increased hospitalization and death rates if they delayed time to their first dose of the vaccine.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Yamhill County commissioners voted in support of reaccrediting the county’s health department after debating COVID-19 language used on their website. The meeting with the ...

Priorities USA, the Democratic super PAC that angered President Donald Trump’s campaign by targeting his handling of the coronavirus crisis, which spawned ineffectual cease and desist letters sent to ...