One would think it only natural that sign language be the main means of communicating and teaching at schools for the hearing-impaired, but in Japan the spoken word generally comes first. Late last ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government is making final preparations to host the Deaflympics, known as the Olympics for people with ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language. By David Leonhardt On a train ride from New York to Connecticut last fall, my colleague Amanda ...

At the White House, the president, the first lady and the press secretary are usually the most familiar faces. But for thousands of Americans, a box in the right-hand corner of the White House ...

All television news broadcasts will be required to provide sign language interpreters, finance minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz announced in his budget speech. “Probably not many people know Tan Lee Bee, ...

There is a communication gap between the deaf community and those who can hear in the society which makes communication between these two parties difficult. Because the deaf cannot hear what people ...

A sign of our past? Deaf experimental psychologist Rain Bosworth has found that babies have an intrinsic ability to recognize sign language, Meghan Rosen reported in “Primed to sign” (SN: 4/26/24).