American sign language (ASL) is a visual language using hand gestures, facial expressions, and body movements, primarily used by the Deaf community in North America.

He or she might have been the relative of a deaf person — someone who could hear, but learned sign language because of their family member, and ended up in that role. It was something.

Language access is not something we do as a favor to help those who don’t speak English. It is an essential role we play in protecting health and safety, and ensuring dignity and respect, for ...

Students across the state of Mississippi are offered foreign language classes like Spanish and French, but a new language is now being offered. On July 1, Senate Bill 2339, allowing American Sign ...

Jake Neighbors, a left winger for the St. Louis Blues, launched a new hat line on Thursday that features American Sign Language in two of the designs.

Christopher Rufo and Richard Hanania criticized ASL interpreters used to inform the public of California's wildfires and revealed an ignorance about deaf people and disasters.

In Edwards’ new book, Going Tactile: Life at the Limits of Language, the linguistic anthropologist explores the existential and environmental factors that impact language for DeafBlind communities.

A measure that would recognize American sign language as a foreign language in Virginia’s high schools and colleges has cleared the legislature and is heading to the desk of Gov. Bob McDonnell ...

He or she might have been the relative of a deaf person — someone who could hear, but learned sign language because of their family member, and ended up in that role. It was something.