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 ...

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama “Jesus of Nazareth” — but as a deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it ...

Two-year-old Ayanna Sanchez was born deaf, so for the toddler’s birthday her whole family learned to sign the American Sign ...

HOLLYWOOD -- This past year at the movies, the use of sign language has stepped into the spotlight. And several of those films that help embrace inclusivity of the deaf community have also made it to ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District board passed a controversial resolution in May that places deaf and hard-of-hearing children in a bilingual American Sign Language and English program. But ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District is poised to vote on a controversial proposal that could reshape education for thousands of deaf and hard-of-hearing students, a key battle in a long national ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The deaf community has relied on a variety of technology like video call interpreters, captioned telephones and cochlear implants, a device that is neurologically implanted to ...

Born to deaf parents in a family where he was the fourth generation born without hearing, Harper College instructor Marcos Aguilar was so immersed in Deaf culture as a child that he thought people who ...