NPR

How American Sign Language is evolving with time

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. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Seahawks’ Metcalf hopes to gain right kind of attention learning and using American Sign Language

RENTON, Wash.RENTON, Wash. — Back in the summer, long before it became a way to quietly send a message, DK Metcalf decided he wanted to learn more about a class on American Sign Language he took in ...
The Progress-Index

For sign-language interpreters, it's all about guaranteeing equal access for the hard-of-hearing: Newsmakers

PETERSBURG — Heather Kubitski's life changed because of an adoption that never happened. "My parents wanted to adopt a deaf child, so I wanted to learn to sign, and that was just ingrained in me since ...
inforum

The power to communicate: Mothers teach their babies how to use sign language

GRAND FORKS - Before she could talk, Maya Bodin had a vocabulary of eight words - words she "spoke" with her hands in sign language. When she was about 7 months old, her mother, Colleen Bodin, of ...
Futurism

Sign Language in Virtual Reality Actually Looks Kinda Awesome

Virtual reality isn’t all about legless avatars and forgettable games. Case in point, members of the deaf community are now taking advantage of modern headsets’ increasingly sophisticated hand ...
Spectrum News NY1

NHL televising first-of-its-kind American Sign Language broadcasts for Stanley Cup Finals

If you’re planning to watch Game Six of the Stanley Cup Finals Tuesday, maybe you take a few minutes to check out a new way the game is being televised. For the second year, the NHL is broadcasting ...