American Sign Language is the most widely used sign language for those who are hearing impaired or deaf, but Indigenous people used sign languages long before the development of ASL. Martin Heavy Head ...

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 ...

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 ...

A chance encounter between a teenager and a blind and deaf man on a cross-country flight last week has gone viral on social media — making the experience now one the pair will never forget. On June ...

The Learning Experience in Cape Coral is incorporating sign language into daily learning for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Children are learning to sign simple words like "more," "all done," ...

The word "deaf" isn't just an adjective for Paula MacDonald — it's part of her identity. Growing up, she attended the Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf in Belleville, Ont., where she learned ...

Dr. Lanny Real Bird (left) signs “I know” or “that’s right” to Floyd Favel (right) who is checking that Real Bird knows what he’s indicating. One summer, when the theatre artist Floyd Favel was in his ...

We all sometimes stare at our bawling baby and wish they could just tell us what they need… but what if that was actually possible? What if our tiny child, whose voice box is not yet mature enough to ...

"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.