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 ...

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 ...

Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand ...

A glove has been developed that translates sign language into speech in real time. Scientists from the University of California, LA, have created an “inexpensive, flexible and highly durable” device ...

Communication is an essential part of coaching basketball. And Sekoe White, who is the director of residential education for the Mississippi School for the Deaf, knows that as well as anyone. In a ...

Roughly 34 million children around the world are affected by some sort of hearing loss, including deafness. Deafness is a type of hearing loss that results in having very little to no functional ...

American Sign Language is a dynamic living language with approximately 1 million users in the United States and Canada. A minor in ASL provides students with the ability to conceptualize language in a ...