A few years ago a controversy arose at UNH over American Sign Language.  For a long time the introductory course in it had ...

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 American Sign Language, finding a visual way to represent an inner identity can be complicated, and the Deaf community hasn’t reached consensus on many signs.

American Sign Language (ASL) is a fully developed visual language that is used by members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community in the United States and parts of Canada. It has grammar, syntax, ...

American sign language (ASL) is a visual language using hand gestures, facial expressions, and body movements, primarily used by the Deaf community in North America.

How American Sign Language Connects People American Sign Language Day recognizes the first school that opened for the deaf, in 1817. Kraig Klingenberg’s road to teaching the popular new American Sign ...

Center Theatre Group and Deaf West Theatre's musical production reopens Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum in October.

American Sign Language broadcasters talk Winter Classic in Q&A with NHL.com Blankenship, Altmann will bring outdoor game to Deaf community for 1st time via ‘NHL in ASL’ ...

Learning ASL is different from learning orally spoken and written languages. We've vetted the best ASL sites to help you start signing today.

Developed by NVIDIA and the American Society for Deaf Children, a new AI-driven website known as Signs invites people to learn how to sign.

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand ...