NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...

EASTON — There’s evidence that babies and pre-verbal toddlers can understand and use simple sign language to signal their needs. Researchers say that can help reduce the frustration and number of ...

Growing up in Ethiopia, Zahria Ruper couldn’t communicate with her Deaf brother. But, life-changing experiences, including being adopted in the United States and learning American Sign Language from ...

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 ...

"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.

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...

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 ...