Learning ASL earlier in life could have opened doors and given me opportunities to communicate with those I loved most. It's not too late, though, and here's how to do it. The first time I saw someone ...

The emotionality of ASL can free you from the trap of precision. By Hannah Seo When I arrived on the second floor of a commercial building in Manhattan for my first sign-language class, a man took one ...

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 ...

In any community, language is the most important method for communicating with others. However, for a deaf person like me, it is difficult to connect with many people and speak in the same ways. This ...

After Superstorm Sandy, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's sign language interpreter became a pop culture phenomenon. Lydia Callis' energy and facial expressions drew wide attention and even a ...

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“I’m super passionate about American Sign Language (ASL), I’ve always been drawn to it. I found it to be a beautiful language and wanted to learn it.” Since Nikita Sietsema was young, she was ...