Hazel Joel, 25, from Sheffield, signed up to the course after moving to London and joining a rugby team called Bec Belles, ...

Ensuring d/Deaf children become bilingual in sign language and English should be a key priority for policymakers and teachers because this plays an important role in their education, a new study says.

There are many different ways of speaking English in the UK, with people using different regional dialects in different parts of the country. For example, some people would say “give it me” while ...

Kate Rowley talks about her research on language comprehension in deaf children. Gerardo Ortega discusses his research into the way bodies are used in sign language Show more Body language is being ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract American Sign Language poetry has been described in some detail over the years (e.g., Klima and Bellugi 1979 and Ormsby 1995) and has been ...

An arbitrary link between linguistic form and meaning is generally considered a universal feature of language. However, iconic (i.e., nonarbitrary) mappings between properties of meaning and features ...

Tina was in a coma for six weeks after falling down a flight of stairs As Tina walks onto the stage in front of hundreds of people she is beaming. She's collecting her British Sign Language (BSL) ...

Newsround's weekday bulletin is now accessible for people who use British Sign Language (BSL). The programme will be fully signed, with an in-vision interpreter, each weekday starting from Tuesday, 19 ...

Hearing people take for granted our ability to convey scientific terms in conversation, from concepts as simple as weight and mass to chromosomes and covalent bonding. But for people who rely on sign ...

It might surprise you to learn that British Sign Language (or simply BSL) has not historically been a legally-recognised language in the United Kingdom. After all, it was only last month that ...