Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America ...

How American Sign Language is evolving with time 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.

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.

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.

Even for something as simple as pauses, different brain functions are necessary to best communicate in American Sign Language (ASL). University of Colorado Boulder researcher Karen Boyd, an instructor ...

Poolaw teaches both Kiowa Sign Language and his tribe’s spoken language in his classes at the University of Oklahoma, where he is an instructor in the Department of Native American Studies.

Learn About The Online American Sign Language Programs. Purdue University is dedicated to providing comprehensive and interactive curricula for students interested in learning American Sign Language ...

Audiences of an upcoming Los Angeles revival of the Green Day musical — performed simultaneously in spoken English and American Sign Language — will see Otis Jones IV planted on a sofa, his ...

“I wanted to learn the Deaf culture and stories,” said Klingenberg. “You don’t have to travel to be immersed. [The language] brings people together.” Klingenberg began teaching American Sign Language ...