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 ...

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 ...

SALISBURY — If you step into a third grade class at Salisbury Academy, you may see silent communication mixed in with all the noise. The school has integrated American Sign Language into the ...

Uber has rolled out an update to its iOS app that enables riders to learn basic sign language on the go so they can communicate better with deaf and hard-of-hearing drivers. Uber announced the new ...

For International Day of Sign Languages on September 23, 2025, Kaizen Aid collaborated with the West African Civil Society Institute and Wilde Ganzen to mark the day at the Cape Coast School for the ...

A free online course teaching British Sign Language (BSL) has "surpassed expectations" with tens of thousands of people signing up, its organisers have said. While staff at Doncaster Deaf Trust had ...

Back in 2015, Uber added some features for drivers who were deaf and hard of hearing, including visual notifications of impending rides. Today, as a wrap-up for National Deaf Awareness Month, Uber has ...

It’s never too late to learn a language. And what better day to take up a new tongue than the International Day of Sign Languages? The holiday celebrates the 300-plus different sign languages used by ...

Uber has added a new feature to its app this month to support its deaf and hard of hearing drivers, a group the company says number in the thousands across its service. Uber says that these drivers ...

A mom on Reddit has come under criticism after revealing that she is forcing her teenage daughter to learn sign language after remarrying a man with a 7-year-old child who is deaf—or leave. The ...

Director Todd Haynes also tells THR of casting deaf actors as hearing characters and having the crew learn basic sign language. By Ashley Lee Wonderstruck intercuts between two parallel plots: In 1927 ...

MANY people may assume that sign language is exclusively for the hearing-impaired and those within that community, and therefore see no need to learn it, especially since the hand gestures used in ...