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 ...

Throughout the past decade, sign language interpretation has infiltrated hip-hop in a major way. Talented masters of American Sign Language have transformed their abilities to interpret rappers' ...

Learning ASL earlier in life could have opened doors and given me opportunities to communicate with those I loved most. It's not too late, though, and here's how to do it. The first time I saw someone ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...

A student paramedic who helped organise basic sign language training for hundreds of future NHS workers has said it is ...

So, you want to learn sign language on a budget. You could be motivated by a desire to understand deaf friends better, communicate with relatives who are hard of hearing, or express yourself after ...

Scientific groups around the country are working to help deaf and hard-of-hearing students better envision science, technology, engineering, and math concepts. At the American Association for the ...

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 ...

Let's talk about back to school foreign language edition. We have Spanish French Latin. But what about American sign language? Well, starting this year, Mississippi schools will be able to offer this ...