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 ...

Nov. 29—Leah McCormick has always been fascinated with sign language and now she teaches it to high school students at Montessori Mastery School of Odessa. McCormick has been teaching American Sign ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Elle Miller, 26, told Newsweek that Timmy "surprised us all" by doing his second-ever ASL gesture at 13 months.

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 ...

ASL had been kept out of scientific spaces… and though things have changed, the delay has meant that new STEM terms do not ...

The phrase begins with four fingers cut across the brow, followed by two thumbs drawn up like breath from navel to chest, ending with a fierce tug with two hands down from the chin into fists toward ...

One year ago, senior Ellyn Skodack switched her major to communicative sciences and disorders. In making this transition she decided that she wanted to learn American Sign Language, or ASL, a skill ...

NORMAN, Oklahoma - A meteorologist in Oklahoma is making forecasting more accessible and inspiring the next generation of meteorologists along the way. Mikayla Smith launched "Signing Science with ...