SAN JOSEAs guitar riffs and growling Spanish vocals pound out of the tinny speakers of an iPhone, Neil Cordova grooves to the rhythm, scowling and moving his body to invoke the tone of the music. His ...

A new study shows that American Sign Language (ASL) is more linguistically complex than previously understood. In particular, new research documents the emergence of the copula --- a word meaning to ...

American Sign Language (ASL), used by half a million Americans, is the fourth most studied foreign language at colleges and universities. Despite its critical role for those who can't use spoken ...

OLATHE, Kan. — Recently, there has been a push in the local deaf community to increase the use of American Sign Language beyond the deaf and hard of hearing. At Olathe Public Schools, high schoolers ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District board passed a controversial resolution in May that places deaf and hard of hearing children in a bilingual American Sign Language and English program. But ...