Tucked away in trendy East London in a converted old train car is the Dialogue Express Café. The coffee shop is run entirely by deaf and hard-of-hearing staff. Owner Hakan Elbir, an advocate for ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

NEW YORK -- Imagine a language tutor who is always on, available anytime to teach new vocabulary or check up on a student's progress. On Thursday, Nvidia launched a language learning platform using ...

More than 70 million deaf or hard-of-hearing people globally use sign language, but there's an acute shortage of interpreters. Silence Speaks is a British startup that wants to bridge that gap with an ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. Last month, I contributed an op-ed piece to MIT Technology Review wherein ...