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 ...

A scene from "I Was Most Alive With You," which features shadow interpreters to create a richer experience for deaf audiences. (Courtesy The Huntington Theatre Company) The Huntington Theatre Company ...

BLOUNTVILLE, TN – What would it be like to live without language? In/Visible Theatre, Western North Carolina’s newest professional theatre, asks that question in its upcoming world premiere play, ...

The Perception, Language and Attention in Youth (PLAY) Lab's aim is to understand how early sensory experiences shape our visual, cognitive, and language abilities later in life. We study how deaf and ...

Every Friday, Davana Jackson, a teacher at Berkeley’s Center for Early Intervention on Deafness (CEID), which helps deaf or hard-of-hearing kids from ages 0 to 5 overcome the barriers that deafness ...

GIFs can do more than add a sassy quip to the end of your tweet. Now, they can even help you learn a new language. Giphy released an extensive GIF library on Thursday with more than 2,000 words and ...

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 ...

It usually takes many “fingers in the pie” to create a new theater production, but at Grace Church in Middleburg Heights, it’s more like many fingers in the chocolate. Those fingers will be signing ...