A mother-in-law and 29-year-old are at odds due to an easter dinner altercation involving her 6-year-old daughter. The mother-in-law asked her if she could tell her daughter not to sign language at ...

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 ...

More information about our weekly ASL Table. The weekly ASL Table at the Whitman College dining hall is a great way for new and experienced signers to sign together over dinner. No previous ASL ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, a group of deaf Nicaraguan schoolchildren invented a new language. The kids were the first to enrol in Nicaragua’s new wave of special education schools. At first, they struggled with ...