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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last week the addition of American Sign Language services to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, ...

Welcome to the American Sign Language (ASL) program, housed in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science at the University of Colorado! We are a vibrant, multicultural, diverse community ...

At a talk Thursday evening, CU Boulder researcher Karen Boyd spoke about two of her studies on American Sign Language (ASL) conducted with colleagues in linguistics and psychology American Sign ...

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 ...

Learning American Sign Language (ASL) is not only a way to break communication barriers, it is viewed as a respectful and worthwhile skill to have. Sign language is not universal, and different ...

The emotionality of ASL can free you from the trap of precision. By Hannah Seo When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one ...

A powerful collaboration among two universities and a tech giant is working to develop a mobile app that will enable parents of deaf children to more easily learn American Sign Language. The game is ...