Today, we are being joined by Julie Luke, an outreach consultant at the South Dakota School for The Deaf. She’s joining us to give us a crash course in American Sign Language to be able to better ...

Fingerspelling is a vital part of American Sign Language, helping signers communicate names, places, and words without established signs. By focusing on clarity, recognizing word shapes, and ...

Kraig Klingenberg’s road to teaching the popular new American Sign Language course at Duke was circuitous. In grade school Klingenberg had a classmate whose mom was Deaf, and he became interested in ...

American Sign Language 101 continues to grow in popularity, but classroom size remains stagnant. The ASL 101 waitlist reached more than 200 students this quarter. Despite the class’s ever-increasing ...

Daycare centers in Arizona are incorporating American Sign Language into infant and toddler programs to help children express needs before they can speak. Teachers and parents report that early ...

Following last spring’s decision to establish a formal language sequence for American Sign Language (ASL), Princeton has expanded its ASL course offerings, hired an additional ASL professor, and added ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ohio State’s American Sign Language Program has undergone a reorganization that will affect students registering for classes beginning Summer quarter. Starting July 1, OSU’s ASL Program will become ...