New standards for teaching American Sign Language in kindergarten through 12th grade have been released by Gallaudet University’s Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. The standards act as a ...

Some 500,000 Americans use American Sign Language (ASL). For deaf users of ASL, communication with those not fluent in the language can be a challenge. Though most deaf-born Americans learn spoken ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have regularly developed devices meant to translate American Sign Language (ASL) to English, with the hopes of easing communication between people who are ...

Fingerspelling is a common communication device used in American Sign Language. Pictured here are the letters A-S-L. (Maddi Driggs) American Sign Language isn't always used within deaf communities, ...

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Want to boost your brainpower, up to your communication skills - and even communicate with babies? Sounds like a superpower, right? Actually, learning American Sign Language allows you to do all that ...

Arguing that the inability to communicate in any language but English constitutes a threat to the nation’s economic and military security, two recent studies have painted a grim picture of ...

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A glove that translates sign language into speech in real time has been developed by scientists – potentially allowing deaf people to communicate directly with anyone, without the need for a ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language. By David Leonhardt On a train ride from New York to Connecticut last fall, my colleague Amanda ...