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 ...

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE - The Cape May County Library is offering “Introduction to Sign Language and Deaf Culture.” The class will be held for 12 weeks at 7 p.m. on Mondays until Dec. 6 at the main ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD -- The public is invited to “Paint, Signs & Mocktails,” in which participants will learn some basic sign language, while painting a related image, with instruction, from a deaf artist, in ...

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 ...

The ability to speak is one of the essential characteristics that distinguishes humans from other animals. Many people would probably intuitively equate speech and language. However, cognitive science ...

Dr Diane Bell is affiliated with the Carel du Toit Trust, a Not-for-Profit Organisation that supports children who are deaf. According to the World Health Organisation report on hearing, mild hearing ...

People living with disabilities are worried that it is taking too long for Zimbabwe to operationalize sign language as one of the country’s national languages. Edwin Ndlovu, chairperson of Disability ...

Along with jet packs and hover boards, a machine to translate from any language to any other is so appealing as a fantasy that people are willing to overlook clunky prototypes as long as they can ...

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE - If you would like to learn the basics of American Sign Language, the Cape May County Library is offering a program, “Introduction to Sign Language and Deaf Culture.” The class ...