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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

Sign language will soon be granted the status of a recognised language in Sri Lanka, following a Cabinet proposal approved this week. The approval came 15 years after the Cabinet in 2010 granted ...

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).