An app that translates a selection of books into sign language has made the move on to Apple iOS, in a bid to help more than 30 million deaf children across the world. StorySign first arrived in ...

Khyiana Tate is on a mission to teach others, and she is not letting her deafness stop her. Like many teenagers, Tate is working toward getting her driver’s license as well as graduation from high ...

High school senior Khyiana Tate, who is deaf, grew up signing with her friends and family, but the 18-year-old rarely saw anyone who looked like her in sign language books — so she created her own.

Gainesville native Kentrell Martin is living his dream. He is an award-winning author of American Sign Language books who travels the country on book tours, visiting schools, and teaching American ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is one of four international innovators selected to create cost-effective packages of high-quality accessible children’s ...

“Eyeth—get it? In the Deaf storytelling tradition, utopia is called Eyeth because it’s a society that centers the eye, not the ear, like here on Earth.” That’s the opener to “Ear vs. Eye: Deaf ...

If we could teach American Sign Language to all students, including hearing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, the benefits would be extraordinary. It would not only eradicate the biggest ...

Very young children can communicate with sign language even before they can talk. That was one reason about 15 families came to try out the beginnings of sign language Saturday at a new class offered ...

Carolyn McCaskill remembers exactly when she discovered that she couldn’t understand white people. It was 1968, she was 15 years old, and she and nine other deaf black students had just enrolled in an ...