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 ...

So, you want to learn sign language on a budget. You could be motivated by a desire to understand deaf friends better, communicate with relatives who are hard of hearing, or express yourself after ...

But as she brings visibility, hope and inclusive messaging to the deaf community, she's not just internet-famous. People who recognize her in the real world sometimes reach to touch or hug her, both ...

Earlier this year, Bay Area-based Google put together a competition intended to use artificial intelligence in decode sign language in real time. According to Google, the goal of the competition is to ...

Mohamed Baghdady leans to the microphone and says the word "one." A lone mechanical finger on the table responds with a curl, then rises upright. At another table in The Citadel engineering lab, a ...

It takes an average of 8 or more years to become fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). The proficiency chart below (created by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) shows levels of ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Colleen Woodcock has taught American Sign Language at Davis High School in Yakima for the past 10 years, but she’s been involved with the deaf community for more than 25. With more ...

ASL is a complete and complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body. ASL is the language of the Deaf community in the United ...