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 ...

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 would ...

GRAND FORKS - Before she could talk, Maya Bodin had a vocabulary of eight words - words she "spoke" with her hands in sign language. When she was about 7 months old, her mother, Colleen Bodin, of ...

A child can wave bye-bye before saying bye-bye. The ability to gesture comes before the ability to speak. Toddlers cannot always tell you what they want or need, which can be frustrating. More parents ...

Snap isn't done teaching Snapchat users how to communicate using sign language. The social media service has introduced an ASL Alphabet Lens that, as the name implies, significantly expands the ...

The idea of babies and toddlers talking and reading can seem incredible, but language and literacy skills get an early boost when adults introduce simple sign language to little ones. Learning to Read ...

In a darkened room in Rochester, N.Y., a baby girl in a pink onesie peers at a computer screen. Wherever she looks, an eye tracker follows — recording her gaze patterns for future analysis. The baby, ...

Languages around the world are changing rapidly to become more inclusive of LGBTQ+ identities. But for people who use American Sign Language, finding a visual and conceptual way to represent an inner ...