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 ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, ...

Following last spring’s decision to establish a formal language sequence for American Sign Language (ASL), Princeton has expanded its ASL course offerings, hired an additional ASL professor, and added ...

Siân Heder’s living room was all wrong. While on set for her new film “CODA,” about the hearing daughter of a deaf family, her American Sign Language master, Anne Tomasetti, gave her a note about the ...

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 ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District board passed a controversial resolution in May that places deaf and hard-of-hearing children in a bilingual American Sign Language and English program. But ...

We all communicate through words, either by speaking or writing. Very rarely, we use nods, or some simple hand signs to communicate. Unfortunately, there are deaf people in the world who cannot hear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The phrase begins with four fingers cut across the brow, followed by two thumbs drawn up like breath from navel to chest, ending ...

The Indiana University Police Academy has created a sign language and Deaf culture training in direct collaboration with Deaf ASL faculty. The training includes a video of key signs for police ...

There are many reasons to study ASL and learn about Deaf culture. Below are several reasons why taking ASL courses at CU-Boulder may benefit you as a prospective student: 1. Experience a different way ...

Salute and you have mastered your first word — "hello"— in American Sign Language. While the Academy Award-winning film "CODA" (an acronym for child of deaf adults) has put a fresh spotlight on ...

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama “Jesus of Nazareth” — but as a deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it ...