We would love for you to make videos to reach a hearing loss audience, the media rep suggested. “Sure, that sounds good,” I replied, “assuming the videos would be captioned, of course.” “But wouldn’t ...

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 ...

If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, the benefits would be extraordinary. It would not only eradicate the biggest ...

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 ...

A lawsuit has been filed by the National Association for the Deaf for sign language interpretation services to be restored at ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language. By David Leonhardt On a train ride from New York to Connecticut last fall, my colleague Amanda ...

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 ...

As a result of language dysfluency caused by language deprivation, psychiatric assessment of DHH American Sign Language users is complex. 36 Mental health providers must understand the trauma that is ...

"It felt so free to me. You know, that was who I was. That was my culture." Fifty-eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, student J.C.

Humans are often thought to be the only animals capable of language. But it’s difficult to prove a negative like this because we’ll never definitively know the subjective interior monologues of other ...

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 ...

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali issued an order last month requiring the White House to provide real-time ASL interpretation for Trump and Leavitt’s briefings, rejecting the administration's argument ...