SALISBURY — Learning to communicate not vocally but using signs was the lesson of the day Saturday in the infant room at the Yadkin Path Montessori School on Bringle Ferry Road, a lesson geared toward ...

After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley’s baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.

Sign-Speak aims to use machine learning to make communicating through sign language easier. Cofounder Nikolas Kelly's own challenges communicating while deaf prompted the idea. The software translates ...

While many people think of sign language as a tool used to aid people with a disability, a University of Massachusetts professor proves that this system of hand motions is a beneficial tool to teach ...