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 ...

Learning American Sign Language (ASL) is not only a way to break communication barriers, it is viewed as a respectful and worthwhile skill to have. Sign language is not universal, and different ...

Nov. 29—Leah McCormick has always been fascinated with sign language and now she teaches it to high school students at Montessori Mastery School of Odessa. McCormick has been teaching American Sign ...

The Purdue American Sign Language Club hosts meetings every other Thursday in Lily Hall of Sciences. The group gives students learning ASL a place to practice, as well as opportunities to learn more ...

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 ...

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 ...

One year ago, senior Ellyn Skodack switched her major to communicative sciences and disorders. In making this transition she decided that she wanted to learn American Sign Language, or ASL, a skill ...

Trace the shape of a heart over your chest using the tips of your middle fingers. This is the sign for “valentine” in American Sign Language (ASL). ASL Club held their first meeting of the semester ...

The phrase begins with four fingers cut across the brow, followed by two thumbs drawn up like breath from navel to chest, ending with a fierce tug with two hands down from the chin into fists toward ...