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 ...
unr.edu

Minor in American Sign Language

American Sign Language is a dynamic living language with approximately 1 million users in the United States and Canada. A minor in ASL provides students with the ability to conceptualize language in a ...
xxlmag

A Deep Dive Into Sign Language Interpreters in Hip-Hop and How It All Works

Throughout the past decade, sign language interpretation has infiltrated hip-hop in a major way. Talented masters of American Sign Language have transformed their abilities to interpret rappers' ...
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 ...