So, you want to learn sign language on a budget. You could be motivated by a desire to understand deaf friends better, communicate with relatives who are hard of hearing, or express yourself after ...

After an illness during pregnancy deafened Doug and Naomi Foley’s baby, they got a call from a friend of the family who had a deaf and blind son. Her emphatic message: Learn American Sign Language.

Millions of people use sign language, but the methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly as those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that ...

Not so long ago, deaf children were punished in the UK for using sign language in the classroom. Recounting his experience in the 1960s, one deaf person told one of my colleagues many years later: “I ...