The online American Sign Language (ASL) courses and certificates teach learners how to effectively communicate in ASL. Students in these courses also learn about the Deaf Community and Deaf culture, ...

In the quest for language universals, one of the properties that linguists generally take to be universal is that a substantial portion of the lexical items are produced sequentially by speakers; i.e.

Languages are quick to develop conventions about word order. You have full access to this article via your institution. New languages can develop consistent rules of grammar within a single generation ...

MORE than 150 families, 250 students and 140 educators — including teachers, school administrators and deaf culture facilitators — participated in and continue to benefit from the Partnership for ...

The technology behind the cooking rats in Ratatouille and the dancing penguins in Happy Feet could help bridge stubborn academic gaps between deaf and hearing students. Researchers are using ...

ASL is a complete and complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body. ASL is the language of the Deaf community in the United ...