Rommel Lo of the Dumaguete Effata Association of the Deaf teaches members of the Provincial Council for Disability Affairs about Deaf culture and basic Filipino Sign Language during the province’s ...

MANILA, Philippines – In one of its significant inclusivity measures in 2025, the Supreme Court approved the rules on Filipino Sign Language (FSL) interpreting in the judiciary, a development ...

I am a government employee, and I have co-workers who are deaf. They usually communicate through writing and sign language. I was told that they primarily use English sign language as a means of ...

Although Tagalog is the fourth most-spoken language in the United States, it is not one of over 25 languages offered at Brown. Through a petition launched in early February, the Filipino Alliance has ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Yale is offering its first Filipino language courses — “Elementary Filipino I” and “Intermediate Filipino I” — this fall. The two courses arrive after years of student advocacy spearheaded by ...

The lack of scientific terms and vocabulary in many of the world’s sign languages can make science education and research careers inaccessible for deaf people and those with hearing loss. Meet the ...

Last week, the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale posted a job advertisement for a lector in Filipino (Tagalog) who will begin to teach courses next fall. The new course offering comes after ...