Learning American Sign Language (ASL) is not only a way to break communication barriers, it is viewed as a respectful and worthwhile skill to have. Sign language is not universal, and different ...

Learn how to effectively communicate in ASL and increase your cultural and linguistic understanding of the Deaf Community and Deaf culture. Purdue University is dedicated to providing comprehensive ...

The emotionality of ASL can free you from the trap of precision. By Hannah Seo When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one ...

Partly because it is overlooked in today’s world, the deaf community often has more complications with everyday life than those who are capable of hearing. In an effort to bridge the gap between the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Colleen Barber is one of two American Sign Language instructors in the Sioux Falls School District (SFSD). Until recently, she was the only one teaching ASL in the district, ...

Monica Morales is talking to the Chancellor of City University of New York and the President of LaGuardia Community College about a powerful lesson in access and inclusion. At LaGuardia Community ...

Born to deaf parents in a family where he was the fourth generation born without hearing, Harper College instructor Marcos Aguilar was so immersed in Deaf culture as a child that he thought people who ...