BBC Children’s and Education will mark British Sign Language Day on Sunday 28 April with all its family-favourite programmes across CBBC and CBeebies signed in BSL.

Makaton is the sign and symbol language used in Something Special. The aim of Makaton is to help people communicate through speech, so when someone is able to say the correct words, they’re ...

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 ...

In American Sign Language, finding a visual way to represent an inner identity can be complicated, and the Deaf community hasn’t reached consensus on many signs.

CBBC’s Magic Hands — a BSL poetry show — continues to win praise for blending accessibility with creativity. Meanwhile, the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust (BSLBT) funds Deaf-led programming ...

Millions of people use sign language, but the methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change ...

IN his Friday evening discourse at the Royal Institution on December 13, Sir Richard Paget discussed “Sign Language as a Form of Speech”. The clue to the relationship between bodily gestures ...