American sign language (ASL) is a visual language using hand gestures, facial expressions, and body movements, primarily used by the Deaf community in North America.

Developed by NVIDIA and the American Society for Deaf Children, a new AI-driven website known as Signs invites people to learn how to sign.

For deaf Angelenos of color, and particularly those who are black, the language they sign among themselves is strikingly different from what's on TV. The tension is evident in a seemingly simple ...

The ASL Alphabet lens will show how to fingerspell your name and let you test your sign language fluency.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times.

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 ...

The smartphone app, available on iPhone and Android, takes what you say and translates it to ASL in a clever and cool way.