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 ...

In Los Angeles, schools will now teach more children who are deaf or hard of hearing to become bilingual in both spoken English and American Sign Language. It's a new chapter in an old debate, as Kyle ...

NOT ONLY IN ENGLISH BUT AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE. >> WE’RE ALL WAITING. >> IT IS A UNIQUE COLLABORATION BETWEEN LITTLE LAKE THEATER AND THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. >> IT IS GOING TO BE ...

Tickets are now on sale for Two River Theater's Elephant Shoes, a world premiere co-production with Deaf West Theatre, directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun.

ASL interpreters support students with hearing-related disabilities by listening in class and translating lectures and discussions into American Sign Language. They may also translate the student's ...

The Ziegfeld Theater will present a groundbreaking new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, performed in both American Sign Language (ASL) and ...

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 ...

The phrase begins with four fingers cut across the brow, followed by two thumbs drawn up like breath from navel to chest, ending with a fierce tug with two hands down from the chin into fists toward ...

From ASL prosody to bilingual education, professor Ronnie Wilbur’s contributions earn her a spot among the Linguistic Society ...

The group of interpreters has grown from five or six covering a handful of shows the first season to nearly 35 interpreters and 10 students. Lauren Guest stood high above the crowd waiting to enter ...

There is a very different kind of theater production opening this weekend, featuring not one, not two, but three different ways to communicate with the audience. The classic show, “Barefoot in the ...

Lauren Guest stood high above the crowd waiting to enter the New Jersey Renaissance Faire on May 31. She was communicating with them, though her lips moved soundlessly. Guest is an American Sign ...