Learn how to effectively communicate in ASL and increase your cultural and linguistic understanding of the Deaf Community and Deaf culture. Purdue University is dedicated to providing comprehensive ...

If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, the benefits would be extraordinary. It would not only eradicate the biggest ...

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 ...

A new study shows that American Sign Language (ASL) is more linguistically complex than previously understood. In particular, research appearing in the June 2022 issue of the journal Language, ...

In a small, sparse makeshift lab, Melissa Malzkuhn practices her range of motion in a black, full-body unitard dotted with light-reflecting nodes. She's strapped on a motion capture, or mocap, suit.

Students and professionals wishing to evaluate their proficiency in American Sign Language now have an opportunity to do so here in Oregon. Prior to this year, comparable evaluation services were only ...

Brunswick High School junior Isabell Cassily said she co-founded the club after developing a "deep appreciation" for American ...

Welcome to the American Sign Language (ASL) program, housed in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science at the University of Colorado! We are a vibrant, multicultural, diverse community ...

ASL is a complete and complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body. ASL is the language of the Deaf community in the United ...