Syracuse, N.Y. -- When Heather Patrick was growing up, she knew she was different. At the age of 16, she was diagnosed with autism. She graduated from high school at 21, and went from one community ...

Roanoke College is utilizing the classroom to make the campus and community more accessible through American Sign Language ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roanoke’s courses were created by longtime interpreter and ASL instructor Dedi Spradlin, in collaboration with the Disability ...

Army veteran Rod Jackson is proving that age is just a number. The 70-year-old is tackling American Sign Language at Central Texas College.

Students in Sacramento State’s Deaf Studies program now have a dedicated space to practice American Sign Language and collaborate with classmates. Representatives from the ASL Club, right, were among ...

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 ...

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 ...