The story of the first two people known to have been educated by sign language is "remarkable" and should be better known, ...

Deaf woman ‘spat on’ for using sign language in public - She was ‘dehumanised and disrespected’, but her life has since been ...

Diagnosed with a rare autoimmune inner ear condition, Wallace faced a challenging period marked by plummeting self-esteem, ...

Now, the 33-year-old is graduating from Onondaga Community College with a degree in American Sign Language. An active ...

These questions reference direct quotes from the film. All deaf people use sign language. Sign language is universal. Deaf people live in a silent world. Having a deaf child is a tragedy.

“She’s starting to show us that she’s trying to communicate and use the language, so it’s been really cool,” she said. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter ...

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap ...

Global artists are also using sign language. Chris Martin using ASL in ... they’re making their art accessible to the 63 million people of the hearing-impaired community in India.

In application, a primary use of the SLPI:ASL has been to assess how well people are able to use sign language for communication, and, as appropriate, to use this information to assist people in ...

Finger spelling is a method of spelling words using hand movements. Finger spelling is used in sign language to spell out names of people and places for which there is not a sign. Finger spelling ...