Geneva Ellis, a 9-year-old girl from Springfield, NJ, has had a passion for dance as soon as she learned to walk. As a child with deaf parents, she decided to incorporate another creative element into ...

A Nixa Elementary School is turning down the volume to help a student learn a new life-skill. Fifth graders at John Thomas School of Discovery (JTSD) are working as a team to learn sign language.

The idea that a group of sign language users are equipped with better vision mightn't come as a surprise, after all the idea that losing one sense can enhance another is a fairly common school of ...

The human brain works in rhythms and cycles. These patterns occur at predictable frequencies that depend on what a person is doing and on what part of the brain is active during the behavior.

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 2003), pp. 97-103 (7 pages) We report results showing that working memory for American Sign Language (ASL) is sensitive to irrelevant ...

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 ...