Sign languages have a long and rich history in the United States and across the world. ASL is the third most common language in the United States after English and Spanish. There are more than 300 ...

In a world where spoken language is the norm, sign languages empower deaf and hard-of-hearing people to communicate with ...

More than 80% of them live in developing countries. Collectively, they use more than 300 different sign languages. Sign languages are fully fledged natural languages, structurally distinct from ...

According to the World Federation of the Deaf, there are around 70 million people worldwide whose first language is some kind of sign language. In the US, ASL (American Sign Language) speakers ...