Students in Laurie Achin’s ASL 1 class at the University of Georgia learn signs for their final unit on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. ASL courses are not accepted for UGA’s “World Languages and ...

With ASL, I expected to feel similarly, and thought fluency would come once I collected a critical mass of signs. The first thing you learn in ASL class is the alphabet.

This course is led by instructor Trynity Frizzell, and introduced children and their families to the basics of ASL – ...

By 2025, half our population is projected to have some kind of hearing loss. Yet many, having not learned ASL, will feel painfully disconnected from the Deaf community. If ASL was taught as part of ...

To Make Girl Who Is Deaf Feel At Home, Dozens Of Neighbors Learn Sign Language "We really wanted to communicate with her and play with her," says Jill McNeil, who lives across the street. "Since ...

In American Sign Language, finding a visual way to represent an inner identity can be complicated, and the Deaf community hasn’t reached consensus on many signs.

“You can feel the music in your body, plus get the signs and story about what the songs were about,” Sawyer said. “Without an ASL interpreter, I would never bother to go.” ...

There are more than 300 sign languages used across the world, each with their own vocabulary signs and grammatical structure. 3. ASL is a visual-spatial language and its grammatical structure is ...

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News FLOW sign language interpreter Cherish on the right side of the stage at Red Rocks on Sunday July 21, 2019, as String Cheese Incident play a concert. “Rap definitely is ...

Leila Hanaumi is Barbie. And Ken. And, well, every character in the ASL version of the Golden Globe-award-winning "Barbie" movie. The sign language performer signs for every cast member who speaks ...