Like everyone else, deaf individuals are capable of communicating both outwardly and internally in a number of different ways – therefore there is no single language or modality that all deaf people ...

We are researching technology for generating sign-language computer graphics (CG) by inputting Japanese sentences and having a CG character reproduce those sentences in sign language. Here, we exhibit ...

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 ...

Interpreter Ryoko Hamano, right, uses sign language to convey a doctor's message to a patient. (Photo courtesy of Sapporo City General Hospital) TOKYO -- People with hearing disabilities in Japan are ...

"It felt so free to me. You know, that was who I was. That was my culture." Fifty-eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, student J.C.

A video showing Jane McCullough "babbling" sign language to her grandparents has gone viral on TikTok Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.