SPOKANE, Wash. – At Ferris High School, a unique classroom experience is unfolding as students immerse themselves in American Sign Language (ASL) and deaf culture. The ASL program is led by teacher ...

Jessica Burris knows if her dad could see her now, he wouldn’t have to say a word out loud. His actions would say it all. Her father, the late Terry Mason, would have held up a finger and pointed to ...

The emotionality of ASL can free you from the trap of precision. By Hannah Seo When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one ...

From ASL prosody to bilingual education, professor Ronnie Wilbur’s contributions earn her a spot among the Linguistic Society ...

Student Derick Jackson communicates with DISD’s Director of Health and Physical Education Lisa Whitaker through sign language at a summer camp at Harry Stone Montessori in Dallas, June 16, 2025. The ...

Aurelia Bullis was working as a bus driver and a teacher at a local Head Start when she saw a sign recruiting for an Apache language teacher. She got the job. Bullis got a call from her younger sister ...