American sign language (ASL) is a visual language using hand gestures, facial expressions, and body movements, primarily used by the Deaf community in North America.

Often, my preoccupation with language as the primary tool for expression has meant that in talking or writing about my emotions, I have held them at a distance.

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 ...

But it had a less profound impact on American Sign Language, which relies on both hand movements and facial expressions to convey meaning. Until, that is, phones started to come with video screens.

The family uses Sign Language since the creatures are sensitive to sound. A Quiet Place Part II showcases sign language as a powerful means of expression, connection, and even a tool for survival.

Members of the deaf community are taking advantage of sophisticated hand tracking to use sign language in virtual reality.

Kakao Entertainment unveiled an official brand sign in Korean Sign Language, created in collaboration with deaf participants, and released it in webtoon form on Thursday.

Sign languages aren’t easy to learn and are even harder to teach. They use not just hand gestures but also mouthings, facial expressions and body posture to communicate meaning. This complexity ...

But educators said that using dramatic facial expressions is the “grammar” of ASL, and is how severity is expressed in the silent language — eyes popping conveying the difference between ...

Celebrating and preserving Black American Sign Language ABC News’ Kyra Phillips reports on the origins of Black American Sign Language, and the movement to recognize and preserve a language born ...

Researchers at UCLA have developed an inexpensive, high-tech glove that can translate sign language into written and spoken words on a smartphone.