Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

CHILLICOTHE — In America around 3% of the population is deaf and many more are considered hard of hearing. This means that there is a part of the population that is presented with a barrier when ...

Learning American Sign Language (ASL) is not only a way to break communication barriers, it is viewed as a respectful and worthwhile skill to have. Sign language is not universal, and different ...

Learning ASL is different from learning orally spoken and written languages. We've vetted the best ASL sites to help you start signing today. I've been contributing to PCMag since 2011 in a variety of ...

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 ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Years ago, a copy editor working on a reporter’s story changed some of the “whiches” to “thats” when ...

ASL is a distinguished language from spoken languages. Below are some examples of how ASL is different from spoken languages. 1. The origin of American Sign Language (ASL) began with the introduction ...

So, you want to learn sign language on a budget. You could be motivated by a desire to understand deaf friends better, communicate with relatives who are hard of hearing, or express yourself after ...

About a week after Glenda and Raphi Savitz welcomed their daughter Samantha to the world, they learned that she was deaf. "She was the first deaf person we had known, so obviously it was a surprise ...