Bridging communication gaps between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals is an important challenge in assistive ...

Some 500,000 Americans use American Sign Language (ASL). For deaf users of ASL, communication with those not fluent in the language can be a challenge. Though most deaf-born Americans learn spoken ...

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 ...

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Wearable sensors could one day interpret the gestures in sign language and translate them into English, providing a high-tech solution to communication problems between deaf people and those who don’t ...

For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Commonwealth Shakespere Company (CSC) has announced the establishment of ...

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 ...