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 ...

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 ...

Even if you've never thought about trying out another language in your life, you more than likely have at least a passing knowledge of Duolingo. Well-known for its outrageous branding and marketing ...

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 ...

American Sign Language (ASL) is the most common language used by the Deaf community in both the United States and Canada. In the United States alone, there are more than half a million people who use ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, Bay Area-based Google put together a competition intended to use artificial intelligence in decode sign language in real time. According to Google, the goal of the competition is to ...

Kraig Klingenberg’s road to teaching the popular new American Sign Language course at Duke was circuitous. In grade school Klingenberg had a classmate whose mom was Deaf, and he became interested in ...

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 ...

The first Starbucks "Signing Store" is staffed by people fluent in ASL. Starbucks just opened its first store in the U.S. that specifically caters to deaf customers in Washington, D.C. The Starbucks ...

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