Despite being born with severe hearing loss, Matt Maxey, who has used hearing aids since age 2, wasn't introduced to American Sign Language (ASL) until his teens. Fittingly, given the Georgia native's ...

On Saturday, April 15—National American Sign Language (ASL) Day—Metallica announced that they will release ASL interpretations of every single music video for their new album, 72 Seasons. In an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It's a language," he says of his efforts to "break barriers between music and sign language" with DEAFinitely Dope. "It's ...

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 ...

Whenever I go to see Phish at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park each Labor Day weekend, my friends and I always end up Page Side near the rail, across from the speakers. From our vantage point, we can see ...

It may seem paradoxical to give a loud, boisterous music performance for the deaf, but in the hands of American Sign Language students the experience is not diminished, it is deepened and amplified.

In the realm of "Would you rather...?" questions, one of the most commonly posed is: "Would you rather be deaf or blind?" The hypothetical is almost always met with at least one person declaring, ...

Denise Crochet has to be a kind of Renaissance woman in her profession. She uses American Sign Language to interpret for deaf and deaf-blind people. "A good interpreter tries to specialize in as many ...

American Sign Language performer Justina Miles shined bright like a diamond during Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday. Miles, a nursing student and cheerleader at Bowie State University, ...