LAFAYETTE, La. — For the first time in University of Louisiana at Lafayette's history, a minor in American Sign Language (ASL) is being introduced to the curriculum starting this fall. This inclusive ...

Brooklyn Lowery, whose 7-year-old daughter Salem is deaf, is happy more future teachers will be trained to help kids listen ...

The state and national education departments have awarded two training grants of about $1 million to the Boston University deaf-studies program in the School of Education for technology upgrades and ...

The Deaf cultural studies-American Sign Language certificate offers deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing students the opportunity to understand the deaf community as an entity unto itself and within the ...

As students in the University’s American Sign Language program enter their classroom, they immediately fall silent. The mode of communication shifts from vocal chords and shaped lips to hand gestures ...

ASL is the fourth most popular language studied at the university level. However, despite its increasing popularity on college campuses, ASL has been available in only a single course section at ...

After several weeks of persistent student protest and letters of support from students and faculty, the American Sign Language program at Brown might just be getting a reprieve. Provost Robert Zimmer ...

In the ballroom on the ninth floor of One Silber Way, students and faculty danced and partied together, but barely anyone spoke aloud. Instead, people were almost exclusively using American Sign ...

RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, with support from Google.org, has developed “Grammar Laboratory,” a learning tool that uses artificial intelligence to assist deaf students with ...

Penn has signed off on the first American Sign Language/Deaf Studies minor in the Ivy League. The minor was granted final approval by the faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences in their meeting ...

In a recent column, Genrietta Churbanova ’24 made a compelling argument for why the University should allow American Sign Language (ASL) classes to count for its language requirement. The University’s ...