BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - April 15 is National American Sign Language Day! Blinn College offers courses in American Sign Language at both the Bryan and Brenham campuses. Through the program, students gain ...

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America would ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language. By David Leonhardt On a train ride from New York to Connecticut last fall, my colleague Amanda ...

When Jin Daming moved from northern China to Shanghai, hoping to start a career as a pastry chef, he was prepared for a fast-paced city — but he didn’t expect the city’s sign language to feel so alien ...

ASL is a distinguished language from spoken languages. Below are some examples of how ASL is different from spoken languages. 1. The origin of American Sign Language (ASL) began with the introduction ...

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 ...