JACKSON, Miss. — Vivian Smith’s fifth-graders can hear neither their teacher’s voice nor the classical music in the background, yet they communicate with ease thanks to an old teaching tool with a new ...

The lights come up. The first beats of the drum and the vibration of the bass reverberate through Red Rocks Amphitheatre, where great sandstone slabs jut into the sky, surrounding the audience, and ...

Emoji might be one of the fastest-growing communication methods of the digital age, but a lot of people probably think the whole thing is silly. Yes, there are very creative rebus-like forms of emoji ...

Debbie Buchholz helps Bhutanese refugee Harka navigate a grocery store. Maita thinks he was seven years old when he and his family were forced out of their home in Bhutan. Starting in the late 1980s, ...

Correction: The original video with this piece did not include captioning for some of the American Sign Language seen on screen. The video has been updated to include ...

With the Uni, hearing people and deaf people can talk to each other like it’s no thing. In the 1960s, when phone companies launched an early version of texting called TTY, deaf customers could finally ...

A UB-led research team has modified noise-cancelling headphones to enable the common electronic device to “see” and translate American Sign Language (ASL) when paired with a smartphone. Reported in ...

Jerry Pearson recently taught about the importance of forgiving others, and people acting as peacemakers in society. Pearson taught the message through the use of American Sign Language (ASL) at the ...

For years, inventors have been trying to convert some sign language words and letters into text and speech. Now a pair of University of Washington undergraduates have created gloves called SignAloud.