In the 5th century B.C. Socrates pondered, "Suppose that we had no voice or tongue, and wanted to indicate objects to one another, should we not, like the deaf…make signs with the hands, head and the ...

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America would ...

Purdue University is dedicated to providing comprehensive and interactive curricula for students interested in learning American Sign Language (ASL) as a second language. Purdue’s online ASL courses ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language. By David Leonhardt On a train ride from New York to Connecticut last fall, my colleague Amanda ...

Franklin Jones, Jr., is in a race against time. Jones, a lecturer in Deaf studies at BU Wheelock, researches Black American Sign Language (BASL). He’s interested in its historical roots, linguistic ...

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 ...