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 ...

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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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wouldn’t it be nice if we could understand what preverbal babies are thinking? According to Tracey Porpora, we can use sign language to tap into young minds. In her book, “The ...

(1st UPDATE) As the Filipino deaf community strives for its language to be more widely recognized, two organizations share how Filipino Sign Language continues to grow amid the exclusion of the deaf ...