Millions of people use sign language, but the methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that ...

GIFs can do more than add a sassy quip to the end of your tweet. Now, they can even help you learn a new language. Giphy released an extensive GIF library on Thursday with more than 2,000 words and ...

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 ...

Adam Schembri works for La Trobe University, and is a member of the Victorian Auslan Training Consortium. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Before we answer that question, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Along with jet packs and hover boards, a machine to translate from any language to any other is so appealing as a fantasy that people are willing to overlook clunky prototypes as long as they can ...