Allison Dufresne's decision to attend the University of Minnesota Duluth had much to do with the school's American Sign Language classes. Dufresne, who is deaf, said the classes meant there would be ...

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. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...

Kasama, Zambia — Every morning, Bridget Chanda places her prosthetic legs beside her bed, pulls on her stockings and pushes the remains of her limbs into the prosthetics as best she can. After six ...

The Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing communities depend on Video Relay Service, an essential platform that ensures equal access to telecommunications services. Every American with a phone bill pays ...

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 ...

In any community, language is the most important method for communicating with others. However, for a deaf person like me, it is difficult to connect with many people and speak in the same ways. This ...

When Andiswa Gebashe was growing up in Soweto in the 1990s, she had two dreams. "I wanted to be an actor, and I wanted to be the president," she says. Today, improbably, she is both – thought not ...

Millions of people use sign language, but the methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that ...

Correction: The original video with this piece did not include captioning for some of the American Sign Language seen on screen. The video has been updated to include ...

“I love poetry because it makes me feel like my mind expands.” In Regard Silence, that's the very first sentence expressed—in sign language of course. Watching the poems signed by deaf people in this ...