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 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- When Heather Patrick was growing up, she knew she was different. At the age of 16, she was diagnosed with autism. She graduated from high school at 21, and went from one community ...

One TikToker is using American Sign Language to share music with her deaf father – and the world – while working toward her graduate degree Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Photographs of Babs Haggin-Roy’s parents, Dorothy and Charles Sellers are seen as she talks about them and growing up with deaf parents at her home in northeast Cedar Rapids on Oct. 20. Hagin-Roy ...

Courtney, a hearing mom whose husband is deaf, shared a video teaching her 7-month-old daughter how to sign so she can communicate with her dad Responding to comments from people who said her daughter ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

Why The Day Matters: The International Day of Sign Languages (IDSL) is observed every year today, September 23, following the United Nations’ declaration to highlight the rights and identity of the ...