NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, ... CHANG: Right. And now I'm wondering if the sign for a phone is going to evolve into, like, earbuds.

American Sign Language is now the third most popular language college students choose to learn. According to the Modern Language Association most recent report, 107,060 students in higher education ...

It all started well-intentioned enough when the Biden administration this week announced its press briefings would now include sign language interpretation to expand access to more Americans. The ...

In emergency updates, American Sign Language interpreters are crucial to the safety of Deaf people—close to a million of whom live in the Los Angeles area alone. They’ve also become the latest ...

If parents don’t learn sign language, children may be deprived of language until they go to school. In this 2006 file photo, Doug Foley signs with his deaf daughter Hannah, then 20 months old.

Hard. But sign language is uniquely difficult because it is fundamentally different from spoken and ... The setup right now uses a Kinect 2 more or less at center and three RGB cameras positioned ...

She said sign language was now official - and the government needed to take its implementation seriously. "Sign language is now official. Bring in the right people who know the language. We cannot ...