American Sign Language The online American Sign Language (ASL) courses and certificates teach learners how to effectively communicate in ASL. Students in these courses also learn about the Deaf ...

The deaf community was plagued by racial segregation, so Black Americans decided to create their own rendition of the language to serve their communities. “Sinners” premiered on MAX on July 4 in its ...

Kraig Klingenberg’s road to teaching the popular new American Sign Language course at Duke was circuitous. In grade school Klingenberg had a classmate whose mom was Deaf, and he became interested in ...

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 ...

We all communicate through words, either by speaking or writing. Very rarely, we use nods, or some simple hand signs to communicate. Unfortunately, there are deaf people in the world who cannot hear ...

The American Ladino League, which describes itself as a “new hub for Ladino language learning and community,” is a creative and multi-layered response to the growing interest in learning Ladino — and ...

Let's talk about back to school foreign language edition. We have Spanish French Latin. But what about American sign language? Well, starting this year, Mississippi schools will be able to offer this ...

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

Students in Sacramento State’s Deaf Studies program now have a dedicated space to practice American Sign Language and collaborate with classmates. Representatives from the ASL Club, right, were among ...

Columnist, author, and linguist Richard Lederer spent about six months writing his latest book, “American History for Everyone.” That was a lot longer than it’s typically taken him to write his dozens ...