Mohamed Baghdady leans to the microphone and says the word "one." A lone mechanical finger on the table responds with a curl, then rises upright. At another table in The Citadel engineering lab, a ...

Duke’s American Sign Language (ASL) Club hosted a “sign-in” on Abele Quad last week, with leaders teaching alphabet letters and simple signs to participants. Here’s a snapshot of their lesson. We’re ...

Cocalico High School’s students didn’t set out to win an award when they started a program teaching and learning American Sign Language last year. The ASL Learning Community was born from a desire to ...

Hazel Joel, 25, from Sheffield, signed up to the course after moving to London and joining a rugby team called Bec Belles, ...

New standards for teaching American Sign Language in kindergarten through 12th grade have been released by Gallaudet University’s Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. The standards act as a ...

Early learning centers in Tucson are teaching babies as young as six months old to communicate with their hands before they ...

Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand ...

I always wondered what it’d be like to have an app that could translate American Sign Language in real time. Our initial idea was a hardware hack that used eye tracking via computer vision to find out ...

USING A computer used to mean bashing away at a keyboard. Then it meant tapping on a touchscreen. Increasingly, it means simply speaking. Over 100m devices powered by Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant, ...

Many new parents can relate to the frustration of trying to figure out the exact needs of their baby. Are they hungry? Do they need changed? Whether it's a piercing wail to have their diaper checked, ...