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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For Rowan O’Dougherty, American Sign Language is his passion. And, what he’s more passionate about is helping others fall in love with the language he’s been speaking his entire ...

I would like to respond to "Not just baby talk," written by Rachel Kolb. I have been teaching infants and children up to age twelve American Sign Language (ASL) for the past eighteen years in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — A school for kids that are deaf or hard of hearing is making life a little easier for parents and caregivers. Around 12,000 babies are born in the U.S. each year with permanent ...

HANAHAN — Gregg Hill admits he was a little skeptical about taking a class to learn American Sign Language. But the more Hill — a project manager for Goodwill Services — thought about it, the more he ...

LOS ANGELES - Language is always evolving, and this new form of communicating emerged in the early 2000s. Deaf-blind Americans created a language that uses humans' first language -- touch. No sight or ...

"It felt so free to me. You know, that was who I was. That was my culture." Fifty-eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, student J.C.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Abby Simpson, a student at Seaman Middle School, has been named as the 2020 Billy Michal Student Leadership Award recipient for the state of Kansas by the National WWII Museum in ...

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 ...

Fluent in American Sign Language, I provide accessible, culturally sensitive therapy for Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals as well as hearing clients. There is a life that exists for you that feels ...