Teaching a child sign language for words like “more,” “all gone,” or “thank you” can make it easier for them to communicate and express emotions. Share on Pinterest Most children begin to talk around ...

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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 ...

In the cats vs. dog debate, many pet owners believe dogs are superior because they know how to perform tricks. But never let it be said that cats can't learn a thing or two. Take for example this one ...

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America would ...

American Sign Language (ASL) users are no strangers to video chatting. The technology—which has been around since 1927, when AT&T experimented with the first rudimentary videophones—lets deaf and hard ...

Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.

December 3 marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a reminder of the global need for inclusion, ...

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 ...