Some 500,000 Americans use American Sign Language (ASL). For deaf users of ASL, communication with those not fluent in the language can be a challenge. Though most deaf-born Americans learn spoken ...

Growing up in Ethiopia, Zahria Ruper couldn’t communicate with her Deaf brother. But, life-changing experiences, including being adopted in the United States and learning American Sign Language from ...

To become an ASL-English interpreter, you must develop competency in both English and ASL. The more adept you become in both languages’ grammar, linguistic features, discourse structure, and prosody, ...

Signed languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) are natural languages that are formally similar to spoken languages, and thus present an opportunity to examine the effects of language structure ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have regularly developed devices meant to translate American Sign Language (ASL) to English, with the hopes of easing communication between people who are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the ...

The Interpreter Education Program (IEP) prepares interpreters for the A.A. degree (entry level) and the B.A. degree (mid- to advanced level). Students are educated in the practical application of the ...

Los Angeles schools will now teach both American Sign Language and spoken English to younger students. The policy change is meant to correct a history of suppressing ASL. But some say it goes too far.