Kansas educators are taking steps to improve the teaching of American Sign Language and putting it on par with other world languages taught in public schools. The Kansas State Board of Education on ...

IVANHOE, Calif. (KFSN) -- 8-year-old Sophia learned American Sign Language at the Boys and Girls Club in Ivanhoe. "It was fun for me but I don't know about the other kids," she says. In February, Unit ...

To increase accessibility to American Sign Language learning, Nvidia Corp. today announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence-powered platform that offers instruction day and night. The ...

In this photo combination, Theo Ferragame, 3, demonstrates the two motion signs for “thank you” in the family’s dining room in the Mount Airy neighborhood in Philadelphia. His parents found using ...

A few months ago, my 1 year old son started whining. For the first five seconds of his moans, I frantically looked around for what he could possibly want. I came up empty-handed. Fearing his whines ...

Arlon Nash’s American Sign Language classroom is completely silent; the only noises that can be heard are faint footsteps that echo from the hallway. Nash has a master’s degree in Deaf Education and ...

Is it possible to teach manners to a pre-verbal toddler? Absolutely — you might be surprised to learn it’s easier than you think. If you’ve been using sign language with your little one from a young ...

There is a tragedy going on at USU that few people know about. There are two aspects of USU’s Deaf Education Dept. The one that trains future teachers of the deaf to use American Sign Language with ...

Tessa Padden, 55, taught the basics of sign linguistics, which are common across all sign languages, and explained the importance of sign language teaching. With the help of an Iranian interpreter, ...

She was born deaf and while Anita Yu On-lam went to a school for the hearing-impaired, she struggled to learn because teachers did not use sign language during lessons. “Teachers there only taught ...