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 ...

Artificial intelligence has been used to make avatars that appear capable of translating text into sign language. But one of the researchers behind the demonstration videos says they are being ...

The ASL club has had a presence at Indiana University for over a decade. Led by Debbie Gessinger, a Speech, Language 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 ...

WHATCOM COUNTY - By teaching babies a second language, parents are learning how to communicate before their babies can even speak. They are doing it through a program that's sweeping the county, ...

American Sign Language (ASL), used by half a million Americans, is the fourth most studied foreign language at colleges and universities. Despite its critical role for those who can't use spoken ...

As an integral part of their daily routine, infants at a childcare center in Broken Arrow are being taught American Sign Language to express their needs and reduce frustration, leading to enhanced ...

"It felt so free to me. You know, that was who I was. That was my culture." Fifty-eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, student J.C.

It takes an average of 8 or more years to become fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). The proficiency chart below (created by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) shows levels of ...