Growing up in Ethiopia, Zahria Ruper couldn’t communicate with her Deaf brother. Today, Ruper, a fourth-year ASL-English Interpretation major at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, is ...

For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...

Growing up in Ethiopia, Zahria Ruper couldn’t communicate with her Deaf brother. But, life-changing experiences, including being adopted in the United States and learning American Sign Language from ...

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American Sign Language has been around since 1817, but plenty of parents and concerned citizens are still back in the Dark Ages when it comes to realizing just how valuable ASL can be for kids. And ...

Interpreters convert information from one language to another — or, in the case of sign language interpreters, between spoken language and sign language. For the latter, they interpret both spoken ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Commonwealth Shakespere Company (CSC) has announced the establishment of ...

The words and works of William Shakespeare were not of particular interest to a young Rachel Berman-Kobylarz. She wasn't unfamiliar with the Bard — she did take English literature classes in high ...

In a visual language, a subtle hand movement can help you get the joke. By Sam Corbin Nobody talks, if they can help it, at the Sign Language Center in New York City. The practice is both instructive ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District is poised to vote on a controversial proposal that could reshape education for thousands of deaf and hard-of-hearing students, a key battle in a long national ...

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 ...

LAFAYETTE, Colo. — There is a very different kind of theater production opening this weekend, featuring not one, not two, but three different ways to communicate with the audience. The classic show, ...