In any community, language is the most important method for communicating with others. However, for a deaf person like me, it is difficult to connect with many people and speak in the same ways. This ...

Learning American Sign Language (ASL) is not only a way to break communication barriers, it is viewed as a respectful and worthwhile skill to have. Sign language is not universal, and different ...

Learning fingerspelling can be a good place to start with American Sign Language, and can be useful to study even if you aren't hearing-impaired. Almost 10 years ago, I was working at a video rental ...

Diego Diaz, cofounder of Mosaico Interpreting Company, is one of very few trilingual American Sign Language interpreters of color in Illinois.

At Gallaudet University, a school for deaf and hard of hearing students, not everyone shows up knowing ASL. A program offers ...