ASL is a distinguished language from spoken languages. Below are some examples of how ASL is different from spoken languages. 1. The origin of American Sign Language (ASL) began with the introduction ...

For someone who is deaf, communicating with a clerk at a retail store or non-ASL-speaking friend over dinner often involves laboriously writing notes. An app called Jeenie offers an alternative: Push ...

On April 15, 1817, the American School for the Deaf opened. That date is now marked every year by ASL Day. Today, around one million people use American Sign Language (ASL) as their main way to ...

In a visual language, a subtle hand movement can help you get the joke. By Sam Corbin Nobody talks, if they can help it, at the Sign Language Center in New York City. The practice is both instructive ...

It takes an average of 8 or more years to become fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). The proficiency chart below (created by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) shows levels of ...