Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Jessica Burris knows if her dad could see her now, he wouldn’t have to say a word out loud. His actions would say it all. Her father, the late Terry Mason, would have held up a finger and pointed to ...

MANSFIELD — A police intern who trained local officers and civilian employees in American Sign Language and produced a pocket guide for the department has won a national award for her work. Catherine ...

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 ...

MANSFIELD — An intern who won a national award for creating a sign language pocket guide for the town police department says she hopes to get other police agencies to use the booklet. Catherine ...

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 ...

There’s no comprehensive app out there yet for learning sign language in VR, however a student at the computer science department of the Bern University of Applied Science is using Oculus Quest’s ...

On April 15, 1817, the American School for the Deaf opened. That date is now marked every year by ASL Day. Today, around one million people use American Sign Language (ASL) as their main way to ...