An illustration of scientist signing the word science The American Sign Language sign for ‘science’ is two closed fists with thumbs angled down, and each hand moves in small circles in opposite ...

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 ...

On April 15, 1817, the American School for the Deaf opened. That date is now marked every year by ASL Day. Today, around one million people use American Sign Language (ASL) as their main way to ...

Languages change—they must. For example, even stickler grammarians have to admit that "impact" has gained popularity as a verb (even if it’s still annoying to some). The Oxford Dictionaries are always ...

For someone who is deaf, communicating with a clerk at a retail store or non-ASL-speaking friend over dinner often involves laboriously writing notes. An app called Jeenie offers an alternative: Push ...

The project’s goal is to create an American Sign Language (ASL) data resource that focuses on documenting visual prosody, which includes, for example, non-manual markers that convey meaning and ...

Along with jet packs and hover boards, a machine to translate from any language to any other is so appealing as a fantasy that people are willing to overlook clunky prototypes as long as they can ...