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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For Rowan O’Dougherty, American Sign Language is his passion. And, what he’s more passionate about is helping others fall in love with the language he’s been speaking his entire ...

I would like to respond to "Not just baby talk," written by Rachel Kolb. I have been teaching infants and children up to age twelve American Sign Language (ASL) for the past eighteen years in the ...

We all communicate through words, either by speaking or writing. Very rarely, we use nods, or some simple hand signs to communicate. Unfortunately, there are deaf people in the world who cannot hear ...

In a visual language, a subtle hand movement can help you get the joke. By Sam Corbin Nobody talks, if they can help it, at the Sign Language Center in New York City. The practice is both instructive ...

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — A school for kids that are deaf or hard of hearing is making life a little easier for parents and caregivers. Around 12,000 babies are born in the U.S. each year with permanent ...

HANAHAN — Gregg Hill admits he was a little skeptical about taking a class to learn American Sign Language. But the more Hill — a project manager for Goodwill Services — thought about it, the more he ...

"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.

Disability advocates are taking their latest fight to the Trump administration, where the White House has been accused of ...

The Justice Department is appealing an order for the White House to provide ASL interpretation during press briefings given ...