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 ...

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures.

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 ...

Millions of people use sign language, but the methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that ...

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, the benefits would be ...

American Sign Language (ASL) recognition systems often struggle with accuracy due to similar gestures, poor image quality and inconsistent lighting. To address this, researchers developed a system ...

The first Starbucks "Signing Store" is staffed by people fluent in ASL. Starbucks just opened its first store in the U.S. that specifically caters to deaf customers in Washington, D.C. The Starbucks ...

Mithun centers deaf and hard of hearing spatial experiences in a new campus landscape for the Washington School for the Deaf.

Throughout the past decade, sign language interpretation has infiltrated hip-hop in a major way. Talented masters of American Sign Language have transformed their abilities to interpret rappers' ...