The University of Wisconsin will be launching its first American Sign Language program in the summer of 2023, according to the UW’s Language Sciences website. The eight-week course — Linguistics 351: ...

Plus, pop music and sign language. By Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger, Alan Blinder and Aaron Boxerman Big Ocean, a boy band whose members are deaf or hard of hearing, has ...

This year, Pleasant Valley High School in Bettendorf offered its first ASL classes as a foreign-language option, and about 40 students enrolled, she said. Deaf or hard-of-hearing characters in popular ...

Two years after the program’s inception, this semester marks the first time that students have been able to fulfill the University’s language requirement using the American Sign Language (ASL) ...