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.

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...

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Correction: The original video with this piece did not include captioning for some of the American Sign Language seen on screen. The video has been updated to include ...

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 ...

TOKYO - A Tokyo school for the deaf stands out not just because it has sent five graduates to represent Japan at the Deaflympics in Tokyo, but also for its educational philosophy that places ...

Trying to communicate with a deaf dog can have its challenges, but one couple have found a way by teaching their rescue pup his own version of sign language. Skye and Daniel Tibbetts rescued Bruno in ...