In Zimbabwe, floods and droughts are becoming more frequent – and for deaf communities, the dangers are particularly serious.

Douglas Mapeta, a sign language teacher in Zimbabwe, helps deaf communities prepare for climate challenges. He also raises awareness about solar power. In Zimbabwe, floods and droughts are becoming ...

Over 70 million deaf people use sign languages as their preferred communication form. Although they access similar brain structures as spoken languages, it hasn't been identified the brain regions ...

Chipawo will today commemorate the International Mother Language Day at the Zimbabwe College of Music in Harare. Chipawo Arts Education for Development and Employment begins its 2013 programme by ...

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 ...

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures.

After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley’s baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.