To make her feel welcome, the school embraced the opportunity to teach all the students some sign language. Morey Belanger, a 6-year-old kindergartener, is Dayton Consolidated School ‘s first ...

Growing up, Madeline Wachsmuth ’25 remembers watching the children’s television series “Signing Time” and learning everyday American Sign Language words through the show’s catchy songs and animated ...

When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one look at my tentative posture and held up some fingers.

Many linguists regard Nicaraguan Sign Language, or NSL, as an important test case, because the language developed almost in isolation, and the first "speakers" are still alive.

Two UW undergraduate students won $10,000 for building a gadget-loaded glove that translates sign language gestures into audio. A pair of undergraduates at the University of Washington made a ...