Tiffany McCray (left) teaches American Sign Language at the Southern Methodist University. She is working on a proposal for the school to offer a minor so that students can become more fluent in ASL ...

An estimated half a million Americans with hearing impairments use American Sign Language (ASL) every day. But ASL has one shortcoming: While it allows people who are deaf to communicate with one ...

UCLA researchers have developed a smart glove that converts American Sign Language into spoken English. The glove uses stretchable sensors and a circuit board to wirelessly send signals to a ...

An illustration of scientist signing the word science The American Sign Language sign for ‘science’ is two closed fists with thumbs angled down, and each hand moves in small circles in opposite ...

Her research advanced understanding of the brain and the origins of language — signed and spoken — and shed light on how humans communicate and socialize. By Katharine Q. Seelye Ursula Bellugi, a ...