News

You use more than just your hands to sign. “ASL has facial expressions, body language. We have over 50 mouth morphemes, shapes of your mouth.
American sign language (ASL) is a visual language using hand gestures, facial expressions, and body movements, primarily used by the Deaf community in North America.
Developed by NVIDIA and the American Society for Deaf Children, a new AI-driven website known as Signs invites people to learn how to sign.
The emotionality of ASL can free you from the trap of precision. By Hannah Seo When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took ...
It has never been easier to learn American Sign Language (ASL) with so many ways to learn right from home. There are millions of people throughout the country who use ASL.
The other challenge with the sign I presented is the fact that it involves too many moving parts at the same time, a violation of the grammatical rules of ASL. This is an example of how the ...
In brief American Sign Language (ASL), which many deaf people in the US use to communicate, has a limited number of signs for advanced scientific terms.
American Sign Language (ASL) is the primary language of the deaf in the United States. We show ways to learn ASL on Windows 11 PC.
American Sign Language is both a spatial and visual language, meaning it uses both hemispheres of the brain. Even for something as simple as pauses, different brain functions are necessary to best ...
Emma Faye Rudkin is deaf, and she has turned her experience into a way to help others. She's partnered with PBS station KLRN to teach life lessons through American Sign Language.
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.