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 ...

The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House ...

Bader Alsharif, the first author, demonstrates how the system spells out names and locations in real time using American Sign Language. For millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals around the ...

When she was younger, Anastasia Patricks would often sit down and watch dramas to relax – she didn’t expect to be called on to make a change. After watching the Japanese drama Orange Days, in which a ...

A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The ...

Trump administration tells a court that requiring ASL interpreters at White House briefings would weaken President Trump’s ...

The Trump administration argues sign language at press events violate the President’s “prerogative to control the image he ...

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 ...

Today is World hearing day and Vivo has launched a new Sign Language Interpreter app that can convert speech to sign language and text in real-time. The app can also translate sign language gestures ...

“The Simpsons” will feature a deaf actor on Sunday for the first time in its 33-year history. Even though the characters in the show have only four fingers, they’ll use American Sign Language in the ...