The emotionality of ASL can free you from the trap of precision. By Hannah Seo When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- When Heather Patrick was growing up, she knew she was different. At the age of 16, she was diagnosed with autism. She graduated from high school at 21, and went from one community ...

A video showing Jane McCullough "babbling" sign language to her grandparents has gone viral on TikTok Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

A mom on Reddit has come under criticism after revealing that she is forcing her teenage daughter to learn sign language after remarrying a man with a 7-year-old child who is deaf—or leave. The ...

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America would ...

A group of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is fighting off recently proposed cuts to the school’s American ...

As a result of language dysfluency caused by language deprivation, psychiatric assessment of DHH American Sign Language users is complex. 36 Mental health providers must understand the trauma that is ...

Throughout the past decade, sign language interpretation has infiltrated hip-hop in a major way. Talented masters of American Sign Language have transformed their abilities to interpret rappers' ...