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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Teaching a child sign language for words like “more,” “all gone,” or “thank you” can make it easier for them to communicate and express emotions. Share on Pinterest Most children begin ...

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 ...

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.

Even for something as simple as pauses, different brain functions are necessary to best communicate in American Sign Language (ASL). University of Colorado Boulder researcher Karen Boyd, an instructor ...