A Georgia fire captain made history at Wednesday’s inauguration when she led the Pledge of Allegiance in sign language. Andrea Hall, 47, became the first Black woman to be named captain of the City of ...

Did you know that, according to the World Health Organization, by 2050, nearly 2.5 billion people are projected to have some degree of hearing loss? This staggering statistic highlights the urgency of ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Throughout the past decade, sign language interpretation has infiltrated hip-hop in a major way. Talented masters of American Sign Language have transformed their abilities to interpret rappers' ...

The Bronx Supreme Court building. Just seven ASL interpreters were employed by the state courts in 2018, all of them assigned to courthouses and offices in New York City. New York State’s Uniformed ...

ASL is a complete and complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body. ASL is the language of the Deaf community in the United ...

A deaf woman has claimed online that she was almost shot after a man mistook her use of American Sign Language (ASL) for gang signs, with the video amassing over 2 million views and highlighting ...

American Sign Language (ASL), used by half a million Americans, is the fourth most studied foreign language at colleges and universities. Despite its critical role for those who can't use spoken ...

American Sign Language is a dynamic living language with approximately 1 million users in the United States and Canada. A minor in ASL provides students with the ability to conceptualize language in a ...

If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, the benefits would be extraordinary. It would not only eradicate the biggest ...

The administration is pushing back on a lawsuit seeking to ensure that interpreters are included at White House events by suggesting that the accommodation is incompatible with the president's image.

Lauren Barrientos is a former contributor for Collider, who specializes in entertainment features and ranked listicles. Her work often explores nostalgic themes, film franchises, TV shows, and ...