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 ...

For decades, researchers have misunderstood a key aspect of short-term memory because of shortcomings in the way they compare the memory capacity of deaf people who use American Sign Language (ASL) ...

Students in Sacramento State’s Deaf Studies program now have a dedicated space to practice American Sign Language and collaborate with classmates. Representatives from the ASL Club, right, were among ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ASL performance minor focuses on forms of creative expression that are unique to Deaf communities and signed language. You will develop conceptual, analytical, and artistic skills through analysis ...

The Deaf cultural studies-American Sign Language certificate offers deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing students the opportunity to understand the deaf community as an entity unto itself and within the ...

If you’re hoping to pick up a new skill in 2026, you may want to consider learning sign language and open the door to clearer ...

A proposal presented by the Program in Linguistics to establish a sequence in American Sign Language (ASL) that fulfills the University’s A.B. language requirement was approved unanimously by the ...

In the spring of 2018, when American Sign Language was first offered at Yale, 20 students registered for the course. This fall, there are 257 students registered. American Sign Language, or ASL, is ...

TikTok is full of American Sign Language tutorials. But virality doesn't always come with accuracy. The deaf community is urging people to only learn from creators who are deaf or hard of hearing.

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 ...