New research is stirring fierce debate over the use of sign language among young deaf children who use surgical implants that create a sense of sound. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, ...

Growing up in Ethiopia, Zahria Ruper couldn’t communicate with her Deaf brother. But, life-changing experiences, including being adopted in the United States and learning American Sign Language from ...

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 ...

While vocal articulation is a unique feature of spoken languages, signed languages use facial expressions and hand movements for communication. Despite this substantial difference, neuroimaging ...

A Texas teacher has gained fame for her sign language skills -- at rock concerts. Lindsay Rothschild became an internet sensation when she signed the lyrics at a concert in Austin for the heavy metal ...

When Cheyenne Rhodes, a clinical services case manager at the American School for the Deaf, had her first son Chayton in 2010, she looked desperately for a way to ease his colic, acid reflux and ...

Throwing up their hands in excitement and a little bit of confusion, students learned how to communicate with sign language ...