Earlier this year, Bay Area-based Google put together a competition intended to use artificial intelligence in decode sign language in real time. According to Google, the goal of the competition is to ...

Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.

The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language. By David Leonhardt On a train ride from New York to Connecticut last fall, my colleague Amanda ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, the benefits would be extraordinary. It would not only eradicate the biggest ...

Trump administration tells a court that requiring ASL interpreters at White House briefings would weaken President Trump’s ...

Australians speak more than 300 different languages, and some of these languages are spoken using hand signs. Jennifer Green from the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne ...

MANILA, Philippines — Despite the presence of a law, advocates in the deaf community believe more needs to be done to promote Filipino Sign Language. The FSL Act or Republic Act 11106, signed into law ...