Some 500,000 Americans use American Sign Language (ASL). For deaf users of ASL, communication with those not fluent in the language can be a challenge. Though most deaf-born Americans learn spoken ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...

Wearable sensors could one day interpret the gestures in sign language and translate them into English, providing a high-tech solution to communication problems between deaf people and those who don’t ...

It’s a sign of the times. All businesses in the city would be required to post signs in English, under a proposed state law aimed at merchants who erect signs in foreign languages only. Firms that ...

How do you perform a play in English and American Sign Language simultaneously? Can that work? Yes. “I’ve always felt American Sign Language is not only a beautiful language, but it’s inherently ...

CRESSON, Pa. (WTAJ) — A three-day conference focused on interpreting at Mount Aloysius College brought over 100 participants from eight states. According to the college, the sixth Biennial Student-Run ...

At basketball games, theme parks, schools and businesses in Central Florida, sign-language interpreters bridge the gap between the hearing and deaf worlds. Florida has more than 3 million deaf and ...

225 East 23 Rd Street, New York, New York 10010 American Sign Language & English School State Median How American Sign Language & English School compares with other schools. (100 = state median) ...

The Minister of, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, has announced plans to make sign language Ghana’s 13th official language as part of ...