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 ...

More than 90 percent of deaf children in the U.S. are born to hearing parents. For them, the path forward can be difficult and also controversial. The advent of cochlear implant technology has the ...

Learning American Sign Language (ASL) just got a little easier thanks to language-learning platform Drops. The company announced today that ASL is now available for eager learners on its app Scripts, ...

NVIDIA has introduced a new AI platform named SIGNS, designed to make learning American Sign Language (ASL) more accessible. The platform, available for free, features a 3D avatar that demonstrates ...

NEW YORK -- Imagine a language tutor who is always on, available anytime to teach new vocabulary or check up on a student's progress. On Thursday, Nvidia launched a language learning platform using ...

After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley’s baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.

Anthony Sinclair, who has been profoundly deaf since birth, launched the initiative after receiving funding from a council programme ...

A post about a teenage son who "blew up" at his parents for not being willing to learn sign language to better communicate with their mute daughter has gone viral on Reddit, where it has received more ...

In Zimbabwe, floods and droughts are becoming more frequent – and for deaf communities, the dangers are particularly serious.

Lenovo and Brazil's Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (CESAR) have developed an application based on artificial intelligence (AI) that is capable of "translating" sign language for ...

Prince William has been praised on social media for a resurfaced video that shows he learned sign language to communicate with a deaf recipient of a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ...