Advocates for education on sign language are making sure children of all abilities are set up for success in the classroom.Sign language is a vital tool for some students and encouraging others to use ...

Teachers are expected to create inclusive classrooms without training or resources. Their struggle is invisible, but without ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- When Heather Patrick was growing up, she knew she was different. At the age of 16, she was diagnosed with autism. She graduated from high school at 21, and went from one community ...

Army veteran Rod Jackson is proving that age is just a number. The 70-year-old is tackling American Sign Language at Central ...

When Mikeasha Duncan is in a loud classroom she struggles to hear individual voices clearly. "I can't hear the teachers or my friends so it's hard to learn in school," she said. It's not an uncommon ...

A Harford County day care is teaching American Sign Language, or ASL, to its students as young as 6 weeks old to help them ...

For deaf children, teachers and scientists, talking about things like "greenhouse gases" or "carbon footprint" used to mean spelling out long, complex scientific terms, letter by letter. Now they are ...