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 ...

The SLPI:ASL is a conversational approach to sign language communication skills assessment. The goal of the SLPI:ASL is to assess how well people are able to use sign language for their communication ...

Welcome to the American Sign Language (ASL) program, housed in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science at the University of Colorado! We are a vibrant, multicultural, diverse community ...

GILBERT — From infancy to six years old, one Gilbert daycare is working to make sure its kids know a second language. “Can you show me 'more'?” asked Jamie Baca. A one-year-old boy then signs the word ...

MACON, Ga. — Sister Kate McFall at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church has always known she was meant to be a teacher. Now, she is using her skills from her babysitting days to teach her kindergarten ...

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 ...

Short seminars of two to six hours for security personnel have been found to significantly improve the understanding of the main characteristics of deafness, as well as the ability to communicate ...

When Allison Timmons was a uniformed patrol officer in Columbia several years ago, she occasionally dealt with people who were hearing-impaired. In those situations, she'd reach for a pen and paper to ...

A Belfast man who has been profoundly deaf since birth has said that he hopes his new initiative to help the public learn sign language while waiting in queues will make the city more accessible for ...