The New York Times

How Sign Language Can Help Us All Be Better Communicators

The emotionality of ASL can free you from the trap of precision. By Hannah Seo When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one ...
Des Moines Register

National ASL Day is coming up. Here's how you can learn some sign language.

American Sign Language Day is April 15, and the hashtag #ASL has gained billions of views on social media since 2023. What's spiked viewers' interest? The work of ASL interpreters has gone viral and ...
ZDNet

Want to learn American Sign Language? AI will teach you now - here's how

Have you ever wanted to learn sign language to communicate with family members, friends, or other people who are deaf? If so, you might want to try a new interactive website that uses AI to train you ...
The New York Times

How the NHL’s American Sign Language TV broadcasts bring the game to a ‘marginalized’ audience

Would Matthew Tkachuk get there? Anyone watching the 2024 Stanley Cup Final between the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers could feel the tension and anticipation as the Panthers’ Tkachuk sprinted ...
Yahoo

How this music buff is using hip-hop and ASL to 'break barriers between music and sign language'

Despite being born with severe hearing loss, Matt Maxey, who has used hearing aids since age 2, wasn't introduced to American Sign Language (ASL) until his teens. Fittingly, given the Georgia native's ...
xxlmag

A Deep Dive Into Sign Language Interpreters in Hip-Hop and How It All Works

Throughout the past decade, sign language interpretation has infiltrated hip-hop in a major way. Talented masters of American Sign Language have transformed their abilities to interpret rappers' ...
Business Insider

How segregated schools led Black Deaf students to develop their own form of American Sign Language

Sign language interpreter Justina Miles was highly-celebrated for her presence at this year's Super Bowl. Her contributions as a Black sign language interpreter highlight the history of the Black ASL.
Chattanooga Times Free Press

How did Camryn Manheim become fluent in ASL?

NEW YORK (AP) - Actors usually have all sorts of special skills they've picked up along the way - sword-fighting, judo, a Scandinavian accent. Camryn Manheim has American Sign Language. The former ...
Los Angeles Times

How to craft a script in a language that can’t be written

Half of the dialogue in my film “CODA” is in American Sign Language. How do you write for a language that has no written form? I didn’t. Not at first. When I started studying ASL, it struck me how ...
Los Angeles Times

How ASL interpretation is being handled at this year’s Oscars — with tablets and YouTube

Deaf actors, Deaf culture and sign language are stepping into the limelight in stunning fashion at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony — with three films prominently featuring all three up for major ...
Chronicle

How American Sign Language Connects People

Kraig Klingenberg’s road to teaching the popular new American Sign Language course at Duke was circuitous. In grade school Klingenberg had a classmate whose mom was Deaf, and he became interested in ...