A new MA Interpreting course at Queen's University is preparing students for the increasing demand for interpreters.

Anthony Sinclair, who has been profoundly deaf since birth, launched the initiative after receiving funding from a council programme ...

A daycare in Bethlehem has a unique program, teaching kids sign language often before they have even learned to speak.

From the stop sign to the laugh-cry emoji, symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. A forthcoming exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, “Give Me a Sign: The ...

The Coast Guard will remove divisive language from its new workplace harassment policy that downgraded the definition of ...

Teach your child to communicate their needs using signs and symbols from Makaton and BSL as used in Something Special and Magic Hands. According to research from The Communication Trust, it is ...

The rocker has filed an application to trademark the hand gesture, in which the index and pinky fingers are extended, the middle and ring finger are tucked down toward the palm and the thumb is ...

WOODSIDE, Calif.-- Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, has died. The Gorilla Foundation says the 46-year-old western lowland gorilla died in her sleep at the foundation's preserve in ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language. By David Leonhardt On a train ride from New York to Connecticut last fall, my colleague Amanda ...

Rock-and-roll fans for decades have used the sign language symbol for love to gesture “rock on.” But Gene Simmons, the demonic bass player from the legendary rock band KISS, claims he used it first.