The current class of NYPD recruits — 600 strong — learned basic American Sign Language as part of their training, enabling them to better communicate with deaf people during emergencies.

American Sign Language (ASL) is the most common language used by the Deaf community in both the United States and Canada. In the United States alone, there are more than half a million people who use ...

will be using both American Sign Language (ASL) and Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), which was once so common across the Great Plains that it was a “lingua franca,” a language used by both ...

Sign languages have a long and rich history in the United States and across the world. ASL is the third most common language in the United States after English and Spanish. There are more than 300 ...

American Sign Language I. Basic knowledge of and proficiency in American Sign Language (ASL). ASL vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics are taught through lecture, conversation and storytelling. The ...

2. ASL is not a universal language, although it is one of the most common sign languages used across the world. There are more than 300 sign languages used across the world, each with their own ...