How does a person get a name sign — the series ... and show “that sign language has deep cultural significance.” We look at the origins of name signs in deaf culture, including one recently ...

Sign language posters now line the walls of hallways ... “She has brought a culture to our building that we didn’t have before.” The school installed a hearing assistive system and ...

When Kate and Dan Walls found out their daughter Charlie was Deaf, they knew it wasn't something they wanted to fix and move ...

While on set for her new film “CODA,” about the hearing daughter of a deaf family, her American Sign Language master ... story that felt true to the culture.” The term DASL dates back ...

Hurwitz has calmed the culture wars with a schoolwide policy that affirms the primacy of sign language but also posits Gallaudet as a bilingual school. Professors now must prove mastery of sign ...

Worse, high schools may stop offering it altogether, robbing the education system of the beautiful history and culture of ASL. American Sign Language is an engaging visual language that unlocks ...

"I had gone to a couple of powwows, you know, kind of trying to learn more about the culture," she recalls. She said it was difficult because she needed sign language interpreters to understand ...

For years, inventors have been trying to convert some sign language words and letters into ... to this idea that we are not understanding the culture — there's a whole deaf culture around ...

Both there's another reason Ireland wanted to help develop a sign language for Oneida. She wants to pass along her Indigenous culture to her five adult children, who are also deaf. The condition ...