A local lawmaker hopes to beef up the number of American Sign Language interpreters in the state. The House Labor and Industry Committee approved legislation Monday that will help increase the ranks ...

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...

Note: This is one of a series of profiles of Syracuse-area startups that are among those picked for a Syracuse Surge program to nurture minority entrepreneurs. What if computers could understand and ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

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 ...