Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America ...

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline will now be available to the millions of people across the US who use American Sign Language (ASL), according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.

The number of ASL speakers is also relatively small, Amanda notes — with 500,000 being a common estimate. This smallness can contribute to faster change. As in other languages, though, the ...

Each time you replicate a sign correctly, a ding sounds off to indicate that you're catching on. You're also awarded a certain number of points to keep track of your progress.

In American Sign Language, students set up one of three tenses at the start of a phrase, but hand signs themselves don't change for each verb tense. Sign language throws in its own complications ...