Laurie Achin is a master at studying a person’s facial expression, gestures, and body language to pick up the nuances that impact a message other than what’s being said aloud. Achin is deaf and an ...

In a visual language, a subtle hand movement can help you get the joke. By Sam Corbin Nobody talks, if they can help it, at the Sign Language Center in New York City. The practice is both instructive ...

It takes an average of 8 or more years to become fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). The proficiency chart below (created by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) shows levels of ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - An estimated half-million people in the United States use American Sign Language. Most of us don’t and if you’ve ever found yourself trying to have a conversation with a deaf or ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

UCLA researchers have developed a smart glove that converts American Sign Language into spoken English. The glove uses stretchable sensors and a circuit board to wirelessly send signals to a ...

UCLA bioengineers have designed a glove-like device that can translate American Sign Language into English speech in real time though a smartphone app. Their research is published in the journal ...