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 ...

A powerful collaboration among two universities and a tech giant is working to develop a mobile app that will enable parents of deaf children to more easily learn American Sign Language. The game is ...

Learning American Sign Language (ASL) is not only a way to break communication barriers, it is viewed as a respectful and worthwhile skill to have. Sign language is not universal, and different ...

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 ...

The human body is the greatest form of expression. From the clothes one wears to the things one says and does, expression is a form of self art. Sign language is a form of expression — one that ...

Welcome to the American Sign Language (ASL) program, housed in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science at the University of Colorado! We are a vibrant, multicultural, diverse community ...

Audrey Cameron works for the University of Edinburgh, and we received funding from the Royal Society to develop new environmental science signs. Creating British sign language (BSL) signs for abstract ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. Last month, I contributed an op-ed piece to MIT Technology Review wherein ...

Did you know that, according to the World Health Organization, by 2050, nearly 2.5 billion people are projected to have some degree of hearing loss? This staggering statistic highlights the urgency of ...