Colleen Cudo, a sign language interpreter who has worked with Mayo Clinic Health System for the past eight years, saw firsthand how the potentially life-saving rectangles of fabric proved a barrier ...

A lawsuit has been filed by the National Association for the Deaf for sign language interpretation services to be restored at White House press briefings and Donald Trump isn’t happy. Now, the White ...

Santa Charles, a member of the Deaf community and fully authorized member of Santa's team, is helping children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing have a memorable holiday experience by communicating with ...

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 ...

American Sign-Language (ASL) interpreters at Clovis Unified filed a union petition to the Public Employment Relations Board on Monday. The 28 employees who provide services to 61 deaf and ...

Burris began teaching at Troy High School in the fall of 2019. She’s a firm believer in the importance of teaching ASL so her students will not only be able to communicate but also to help bridge the ...

Over 70 million deaf people use sign languages as their preferred communication form. Although they access similar brain structures as spoken languages, it hasn't been identified the brain regions ...

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 ...

Face masks are, for most, at worst an inconvenience — maybe resulting in some blemishes or fogged-up eyeglasses. But for those who are deaf, face coverings take away a key form of understanding and ...