Children’s Christmas programs are a staple for many families to enjoy the sights and especially the sounds of the holidays, ...

EASTON — There’s evidence that babies and pre-verbal toddlers can understand and use simple sign language to signal their needs. Researchers say that can help reduce the frustration and number of ...

American Sign Language is a dynamic living language with approximately 1 million users in the United States and Canada. A minor in ASL provides students with the ability to conceptualize language in a ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Deaf Refugee Advocacy opened its new headquarters on Tuesday at the Sibley Building in downtown Rochester. Monroe County officials say the new space will be used to provide workshops ...

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 ...

Growing up in Ethiopia, Zahria Ruper couldn’t communicate with her Deaf brother. But, life-changing experiences, including being adopted in the United States and learning American Sign Language from ...

The emotionality of ASL can free you from the trap of precision. By Hannah Seo When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one ...

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 ...

Virtual reality isn’t all about legless avatars and forgettable games. Case in point, members of the deaf community are now taking advantage of modern headsets’ increasingly sophisticated hand ...