Richard Adade is a special educationist and lecturer in the Department of Health Promotion and Disability Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Psychology of Education at the University of South Africa (UNISA), with a research focus on students with sensory impairments—particularly those who are deaf or blind.

Richard is passionate about breaking the communication barrier between the deaf and hearing communities. He played a pivotal role in introducing Ghanaian Sign Language (GhSL) and Sign Language for Health Communication into the curriculum of several academic programs at KNUST. For over a decade, he has been actively engaged in teaching GhSL to tertiary students and producing accessible learning resources such as instructional videos.
Individuals interested in learning sign language can access his free online course via this link: 

In addition to teaching, Richard supports the deaf community through ongoing sign language interpretation services and has contributed as lead author to multiple academic publications on sign language and inclusive education.

He is currently collaborating with the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Computer Engineering at KNUST on a series of ongoing projects focused on developing artificial intelligence (AI) tools for real-time, multimodal translation—encompassing voice, text, and sign language. These initiatives, supported by the KNUST Research Fund (KReF) and Rail, KNUST, aim to enhance inclusive communication and promote equitable access to information for individuals with hearing impairments.