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 ...

Learning American Sign Language (ASL) just got a little easier thanks to language-learning platform Drops. The company announced today that ASL is now available for eager learners on its app Scripts, ...

Alex Greenwood will warm up for England’s game against Sweden tonight wearing a shirt with her name spelled in British Sign Language. The Lionesses have been given special warm-up tops which use the ...

Not so long ago, deaf children were punished in the UK for using sign language in the classroom. Recounting his experience in the 1960s, one deaf person told one of my colleagues many years later: “I ...

When their newborn failed a hearing test, Quinn and Kai were distraught. Their pediatrician reassured them their baby was a candidate for a cochlear implant – an electronic device consisting of an ...

When Cheyenne Rhodes, a clinical services case manager at the American School for the Deaf, had her first son Chayton in 2010, she looked desperately for a way to ease his colic, acid reflux and ...