Christmas Eve 2017 was very special. That was the day when President Michael D Higgins signed the Irish Sign Language Act, recognising Irish Sign Language as the third language of Ireland. The act was ...

She collaborated with two professors at Gallaudet University on the first ASL dictionary, laying the groundwork for a flourishing in Deaf identity over the last 50 years. By Clay Risen Dorothy ...

New device translates sign language into spoken words. The Red Dot 2013 design award went to Asia University contestants who designed the Sign Language Ring, a set of rings and a bracelet that detects ...

American Sign Language contains thousands of signs. But it is missing some key terms in science, math and technology. That's a problem for deaf students interested in studying these subjects. There ...

Several buildings will be illuminated in the colour blue to mark the International Day of Sign Languages and Blue for ISL campaign today. The colour blue is a visual method of highlighting important ...

A video showing Jane McCullough "babbling" sign language to her grandparents has gone viral on TikTok Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.