Sarah-Jade Walker was running a British Sign Language (BSL) "bootcamp" in North Yorkshire which driving instructor Adele ...

Babs Haggin-Roy recalls growing up in Illinois, the second daughter of deaf parents. Their home was quiet. No music, no ...

American Sign Language (ASL), used by half a million Americans, is the fourth most studied foreign language at colleges and universities. Despite its critical role for those who can't use spoken ...

American Sign Language (ASL) users are no strangers to video chatting. The technology—which has been around since 1927, when AT&T experimented with the first rudimentary videophones—lets deaf and hard ...

About a week after Glenda and Raphi Savitz welcomed their daughter Samantha to the world, they learned that she was deaf. "She was the first deaf person we had known, so obviously it was a surprise ...

The order marks the first time the country has ever had a national language. President Donald Trump is expected to sign a historic executive order designating English as the United States' official ...

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 ...

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 ...

Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, died at the age of 46. Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language and became a pop-culture phenomenon, will be laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony at an ...

A baby attempting to communicate with her deaf grandparents through sign language has gone viral on TikTok. The video, posted by Mara McCullough, 27, showcases her daughter sitting in her baby rocker, ...

Dr Diane Bell is affiliated with the Carel du Toit Trust, a Not-for-Profit Organisation that supports children who are deaf. According to the World Health Organisation report on hearing, mild hearing ...