A new study shows that American Sign Language (ASL) is more linguistically complex than previously understood. In particular, new research documents the emergence of the copula --- a word meaning to ...

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. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...

"It felt so free to me. You know, that was who I was. That was my culture." Fifty-eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, student J.C.

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My methods are unique and have developed over the years with increasing resources, research, support, and growing community awareness. I want to empower my clients to find their best version of ...

Not so long ago, deaf children were punished in the UK for using sign language in the classroom. Recounting his experience in the 1960s, one deaf person told one of my colleagues many years later: “I ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Correction: The original video with this piece did not include captioning for some of the American Sign Language seen on screen. The video has been updated to include ...

I am a Deaf therapist who can work with Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing/CODA clientele by using American Sign Language (ASL). Are you struggling at figuring out your self-identity as a Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing/CODA ...

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 same ...