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 ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, ...

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 ...

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently agreed ...

Correction: The original video with this piece did not include captioning for some of the American Sign Language seen on screen. The video has been updated to include ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. --Our Lady of Good Counsel School has switched from Italian to American Sign Language as the school’s language. It has been met with great enthusiasm by students and parents alike.

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...