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 ...

You don’t need to know the language to be moved by the translation. A visitor coming to Bible Gateway to look up John 3:16 has 63 options of English translations. For Christians, reading the ...

Dear Miss Manners: My friends and I, who are religion-free (or atheists), are debating how to respond to people who tell us to “have a blessed day” or who use any other religious sign-off.It ...

How American Sign Language is evolving with time 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.

When the school principal, Dr. Janet Wright-Davis, learned of this language lesson, she made a decision. “October is Disability Awareness Month. Let’s teach the whole school,” Wright-Davis said.

If parents don’t learn sign language, children may be deprived of language until they go to school. In this 2006 file photo, Doug Foley signs with his deaf daughter Hannah, then 20 months old.

He's taking American Sign Language classes on Zoom. "I've had seven lessons now," Metcalf said on Dec. 6. "I think it's great that I get to learn something new." ...

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 ...