A video of a wedding officiant using sign language for a deaf flower girl has the internet reaching for happy-tear tissues. Christina Pacala, who is the groom’s sister and mom of 22-month-old daughter ...

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 ...

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 would ...

Andrea Lackner's research was funded by the Austrian Science Fund and affiliated with the Centre of Sign Language and Deaf Communication at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria. Most people ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...