BUFFALO, N.Y. — A University at Buffalo-led research team has modified noise-cancelling headphones, enabling the common electronic device to “see” and translate American Sign Language (ASL) when ...

Afterwork phone calls or Zoom hangouts with family and friends -- or even your therapist -- have become a crucial part of how we stay connected and sane during the Covid-19 pandemic. But for 30 ...

The first international comparative list of astronomical words in sign languages is now available. As part of this proposal, the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Astronomy for Sign Languages has been ...

An illustration of scientist signing the word science The American Sign Language sign for ‘science’ is two closed fists with thumbs angled down, and each hand moves in small circles in opposite ...

Have you always wanted to know how to sign certain words in sign language? Watch this segment and find out how to say something in sign language.

Like many young people in Singapore and elsewhere, 25-year-old Quek Kai Yu sometimes finds it difficult to communicate with his parents. But in his case, the generation gap isn't always to blame. Quek ...

Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.