American sign language (ASL) is a visual language using hand gestures, facial expressions, and body movements, primarily used by the Deaf community in North America.

The current class of NYPD recruits — 600 strong — learned basic American Sign Language as part of their training, enabling them to better communicate with deaf people during emergencies.

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 ...

Soon after Ariya Ahona began learning American Sign Language (ASL) at the University of Toronto, she realized that language would be only one of the many things she’d be learning. That’s because in ...

Not only will ASL make you a better visual observer, but it will have benefits in your hearing life as well. Since communicating in sign language requires so much focus and concentration, you get ...

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America ...

The students at Mark Bills Middle School created the ASL club for one student. Students at Mark Bills Middle School in Peoria, Illinois created a sign language club to better communicate with a ...

NTID produces The American Sign Language Vocabulary CD-ROM dictionary. ... Deaf and hard-of-hearing students who have little or no prior skills in ASL and want to develop their skills in sign language ...

American Sign Language performer Justina Miles shined bright like a diamond during Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday. Miles, a nursing student and cheerleader at Bowie State ...

And ASL is simply one kind of sign language. As Mansfield wrote on her Facebook page, “the word “voice” is not just for people who “speak” with their mouth. My hands and language are ...