Bridging communication gaps between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals is an important challenge in assistive technology and inclusive education. In an attempt to close that gap, I developed a ...

Gestures--such as pointing or waving--go hand in hand with a child's first words, and twins lag behind single children in producing and using those gestures, two studies from Georgia State University ...

What if technology could bridge the gap between spoken language and sign language, empowering millions of people to communicate more seamlessly? With advancements in deep learning, this vision is no ...

Methodological signs and the roots of American Sign Language -- The natural language of signs -- Experiment in television and the last of the great anti-American Sign Language debates -- The language ...

Humans are known to invent private hand gestures. Chimps in the wild do, too, a new study suggests. By Brandon Keim Parents and their children, or people who know each other well, often share some ...