After springing to the end zone for a 73-yard touchdown last week, DK Metcalf celebrated not with a dance or by spiking the football. Instead he dropped the ball, then signed the phrase, "standing on ...

After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley’s baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

The Athletic has live coverage of Eagles vs. Seahawks on Monday Night Football It’s not just that DK Metcalf is learning American Sign Language and using it on a national stage — it’s that, even as a ...

The site, Deaf Diabetes Can Together, provides diabetes information in American Sign Language, which is many people's first or only language. Deaf and hard of hearing people are at three times higher ...

Indianapolis Colts cheerleader Morgan is proficient in American Sign Language and uses it to connect with fans. She met 8-year-old Mark at Sunday's Colts game who recently moved to the city to attend ...

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 would ...

Viewers who tune into the Super Bowl pregame show on Sunday will be treated to an unusual performance of “America the Beautiful,” which will be told, in part, through Native American sign language.

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 ...