Literacy within the deaf community, says Laura Blackburn, of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is at "crisis level". By the time they are 18, deaf and hearing impaired people -- who make up 1% of the ...

The alphabet regulates how we learn the English letters (to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”), organize books on library shelves and line up students for a graduation procession. Saying the ...

A, B, C, D, E, F, G—makes you want to hum the alphabet song. But there’s no real reason why people should learn these letters in this order. There are plenty of ...