After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley’s baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.

Mandarin Chinese and Spanish are among the most widely spoken languages in the world. And now those global numbers will tick up a bit in Little Rock. The newly redesigned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Athletic has live coverage of Eagles vs. Seahawks on Monday Night Football It’s not just that DK Metcalf is learning American Sign Language and using it on a national stage — it’s that, even as a ...

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 ...

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 ...