Carrie Hayes, right, signs Wednesday during a group activity in a sign language class at Sultan High School in Sultan. Advanced sign language students stay silent during the entire period ...

BROOKFIELD — Students taking the high school’s new American Sign Language class this fall won’t have a teacher—at least not in the traditional sense. The class, which 100 students had ...

The state should start special colleges to provide higher education to the hearing impaired students after class 12, and also make provisions for teaching courses in sign language.

Linda Lugo noticed her deaf elementary students had trouble communicating with their parents. She started a sign language course for Spanish speakers.

American Sign Language instructor Andrew R. Bottoms was concerned that he would not have enough students to fill Linguistics 73a: “Beginning American Sign Language 1,” the first ASL class ...

Brother Martin senior Jonathan Exposito, left, signs out a word in the school’s new American Sign Language class. Looking on is senior Cade Dupuis, right.

Teacher Sanela Ljumanovic taught deaf Zejd Coralic's entire class at Osman Nakas primary school sign-language so they could all communicate together in Sarajevo, Bosnia.