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 ...

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 ...

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...

Millions of people use sign language, but the methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that ...

In a visual language, a subtle hand movement can help you get the joke. By Sam Corbin Nobody talks, if they can help it, at the Sign Language Center in New York City. The practice is both instructive ...