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 ...

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 ...

PETERSBURG — Heather Kubitski's life changed because of an adoption that never happened. "My parents wanted to adopt a deaf child, so I wanted to learn to sign, and that was just ingrained in me since ...

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 ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS - Before she could talk, Maya Bodin had a vocabulary of eight words - words she "spoke" with her hands in sign language. When she was about 7 months old, her mother, Colleen Bodin, of ...

Before she could talk, Maya Bodin had a vocabulary of eight words -- words she "spoke" with her hands in sign language. When she was about 7 months old, her mother Colleen Bodin of Grand Forks began ...

The NHL and P-X-P are producing the first-of-its kind alternate broadcast of the Stanley Cup Final in American Sign Language for the Deaf community. “NHL in ASL” is available on the digital platforms ...