From ASL prosody to bilingual education, professor Ronnie Wilbur’s contributions earn her a spot among the Linguistic Society ...

Students in Sacramento State’s Deaf Studies program now have a dedicated space to practice American Sign Language and collaborate with classmates. Representatives from the ASL Club, right, were among ...

The ASL and Deaf Cultural Studies immersion prepares students in the multi-disciplinary study of American Sign Language and Deaf Culture. Open to hearing and deaf students, courses address topics in ...

For decades, researchers have misunderstood a key aspect of short-term memory because of shortcomings in the way they compare the memory capacity of deaf people who use American Sign Language (ASL) ...

Leaders of the University of New Orleans and Delgado Community College have signed an agreement paving the way for Delgado graduates who have completed an associate degree in American Sign Language ...

The ability to speak is one of the essential characteristics that distinguishes humans from other animals. Many people would probably intuitively equate speech and language. However, cognitive science ...

A new study from the University of Rochester finds that there is no single advanced area of the human brain that gives it language capabilities above and beyond those of any other animal species.

UK-Japan academia and industry join on a project to switch AI sign language training data from interpreted to real deaf ...

Last Wednesday, the University of Connecticut Board of Trustees approved of a new American Sign Language Studies major beginning in the fall of 2020. The decision has been a long time coming—the ...

Over 70 million deaf people use sign languages as their preferred communication form. Although they access similar brain structures as spoken languages, it hasn't been identified the brain regions ...

ST. LOUIS — Sign language interpreters are a crucial tool utilized by all people involved in a communication setting and the job demand is high. Malik Wilson caught up with Southwestern Illinois ...