At a talk Thursday evening, CU Boulder researcher Karen Boyd spoke about two of her studies on American Sign Language (ASL) conducted with colleagues in linguistics and psychology American Sign ...

In a darkened room in Rochester, N.Y., a baby girl in a pink onesie peers at a computer screen. Wherever she looks, an eye tracker follows — recording her gaze patterns for future analysis. The baby, ...

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 ...

American Sign Language (ASL), used by half a million Americans, is the fourth most studied foreign language at colleges and universities. Despite its critical role for those who can't use spoken ...

Lewis Central High School students are learning American Sign Language at the Iowa School for the Deaf, fostering communication and understanding between hearing and deaf communities ...

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 ...

Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.

While working at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., the late cognitive neuroscientist Ursula Bellugi discovered that, much like spoken language, sign language was made up ...

We look at the origins of name signs in deaf culture, including one recently assigned to Vice President Harris. Shortly after the 2020 presidential election, five women joined forces with a mission: ...