Learning American Sign Language (ASL) is not only a way to break communication barriers, it is viewed as a respectful and worthwhile skill to have. Sign language is not universal, and different ...

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 ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

American Sign Language (ASL) is the most common language used by the Deaf community in both the United States and Canada. In the United States alone, there are more than half a million people who use ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Babies are using their hands to communicate before they can actually talk. That appears to be a trend at many daycare centers where tiny infants are being taught sign language so ...

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 ...

In addition to American Sign Language, School District 186 offers Spanish, French, German and Latin. Around one million people use ASL as their main way to communicate, according to Communication ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — April 15 is National American Sign Language Day. It's a day to celebrate and honor the unique language that is spoken not by mouth but by hand, using gestures and signals. The ...

Baseball coaches and players use sign language all the time — the catcher communicating what kind of pitch to throw or the third-base coach giving base-runners the cue for a double-steal. On Aug. 22, ...