For six years, youngsters have lined up before Christmas to greet Santa Jerry — a.k.a. Jerry Wise — and share their wish lists at venues throughout Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C.

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 ...

Have you ever watched the TV show “Switched at Birth” featuring characters who use sign language? The actress who plays Daphne, a girl who is hard of hearing, studied American Sign Language herself, ...

Earlier this year, Bay Area-based Google put together a competition intended to use artificial intelligence in decode sign language in real time. According to Google, the goal of the competition is to ...

Clyde-Savannah students can now take American Sign Language to fulfill their language credit, thanks to a new program led by ASL teacher Genevieve Callejo, according to WayneTimes.com. Callejo blends ...

When Dr. Vonda Wells was traveling in Canada last summer, she met an older gentleman who asked her where she was from. When ...

This year, the day is commemorated under the theme of ‘No Human Rights Without Sign Language Rights’. The day is a unique opportunity to support and protect the linguistic identity and cultural ...

It sounds futuristic—a pair of gloves that translates sign language into speech—but such an invention is indeed a reality. A young engineer from Kenya, Roy Allela, created Sign-IO, gloves that allow ...

The Sign Language Proficiency Interview (SLPI:ASL) involves a one-to-one conversation in sign language between an interviewer and candidate/interviewee. Interview content varies according to the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court has approved the official guidelines for Filipino Sign Language (FSL) interpreting in ...

Australians speak more than 300 different languages, and some of these languages are spoken using hand signs. Jennifer Green from the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne ...