GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – Sunday kicked off Deaf Awareness Week. The first event was at Barnes & Noble in Greenville. Children gathered as an American Sign Language instructor read a story and taught ...

Learning ASL earlier in life could have opened doors and given me opportunities to communicate with those I loved most. It's not too late, though, and here's how to do it. The first time I saw someone ...

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 ...

Researchers throughout the years have studied the use of curse words and according to some, dropping a well-placed expletive can be a sign of honesty or an indication of a high pain tolerance. Good ...

American Sign Language (ASL) users are no strangers to video chatting. The technology—which has been around since 1927, when AT&T experimented with the first rudimentary videophones—lets deaf and hard ...

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 ...

Languages around the world are changing rapidly to become more inclusive of LGBTQ+ identities. But for people who use American Sign Language, finding a visual and conceptual way to represent an inner ...