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 ...

Gemma King receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In Dune’s sandswept colonialist dystopia of the distant future, power is a force best handled – and transferred – surreptitiously. In ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A princess at Disneyland in California made an 11-year-old’s day magical when she was able to chat with her by using sign language. In a video provided by TMX, Princess Anna from ...

Footage of Prince William and Kate Middleton using sign language during royal events has gone viral on TikTok, as fans praised the future king and queen. The Prince and Princess of Wales have ...

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 ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...

Colette Schudel learned at an early age from her mother, Caitlin, the importance of sign language as a means of communication. The 13-year-old Shore Middle School eighth-grader, who grew up with an ...

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 ...

TikToker Veronica Ochoa posted a sweet clip of her son Mark, who was born deaf, meeting a cheerleader on the sidelines of an Indianapolis Colts game Morgan McLain gave Mark a booklet featuring photos ...

There's a certain comfort in being able to connect with someone in your own language. For 11-year-old Zoe, that moment came unexpectedly at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Zoe is deaf and usually ...

Raising the status of the African languages to that of official languages in South Africa post-1994 led to an explosion of translation and interpreting work in local and foreign languages.