When David Player ’19 (sociology/anthropology) was a student at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf in 2015, he became fascinated with how race, identity, and language, specifically sign ...

Earlier this year, Bay Area-based Google put together a competition intended to use artificial intelligence in decode sign language in real time. According to Google, the goal of the competition is to ...

While most students across the province have adapted to online learning, the transition has been harder for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. At Winston Knoll Collegiate, the Deaf and Hard of ...

Abby DeZurik signs the song "The Sun" by Brittany Broski on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, during the ASL 3 student final project performances at Central Lakes College.

On TikTok and in virtual hangouts, a younger generation is sharing the origins and nuances of Black American Sign Language, a rich variation of ASL that scholars say has been overlooked for too long.

Joseph Hill, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, believes he is the only black, deaf, Ph.D. linguist in America, and maybe in the world. “Just me,” he told an ...

The first-ever American Sign Language (ASL) and spoken English production of The Laramie Project produced by Deaf Austin Theatre (DAT) with a Deaf and Hearing Cast debuted at Ground Floor Theater to a ...

A colorful bike rack that spells out FREDERICK in American Sign Language will be coming to downtown after the project won a placemaking competition last week. The Downtown Frederick Partnership held ...