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 ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District board passed a controversial resolution in May that places deaf and hard-of-hearing children in a bilingual American Sign Language and English program. But ...

Siân Heder’s living room was all wrong. While on set for her new film “CODA,” about the hearing daughter of a deaf family, her American Sign Language master, Anne Tomasetti, gave her a note about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Troy Kotsur, Justina Miles and Colin Denny perform in American Sign Language and Plains Indian Sign Language at the Super Bowl ...

We all communicate through words, either by speaking or writing. Very rarely, we use nods, or some simple hand signs to communicate. Unfortunately, there are deaf people in the world who cannot hear ...

American Sign Language The online American Sign Language (ASL) courses and certificates teach learners how to effectively communicate in ASL. Students in these courses also learn about the Deaf ...

The Indiana University Police Academy is aiming to better serve the Deaf members of its community by providing sign language and cultural awareness training curated by Deaf IU faculty members to its ...

GENOA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Bob Madden's eyes darted from right to left, watching Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final from a couch with his son, Jonathan, at his side and the family dog, Ruby, at their ...

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama “Jesus of Nazareth” — but as a deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it ...

The Indiana University Police Academy has created a sign language and Deaf culture training in direct collaboration with Deaf ASL faculty. The training includes a video of key signs for police ...