Researchers at UCLA have developed an inexpensive, high-tech glove that can translate sign language into written and spoken words on a smartphone (via Fast Company). The system works in real time and ...

Tiffany McCray (left) teaches American Sign Language at the Southern Methodist University. She is working on a proposal for the school to offer a minor so that students can become more fluent in ASL ...

UCLA bioengineers have designed a glove-like device that can translate American Sign Language into English speech in real time though a smartphone app. Their research is published in the journal ...

Innovation and the arts take center stage in Boulder every year through Local Theater Company, which is presenting its twelfth annual Local Lab 12 event from Thursday, April 27, through Sunday, April ...

An illustration of scientist signing the word science The American Sign Language sign for ‘science’ is two closed fists with thumbs angled down, and each hand moves in small circles in opposite ...

They fought fires on the front lines for just a few dollars per day. However, that’s finally changing for thousands of California incarcerated firefighters because of a new state law increasing their ...

While it isn't surprising that infants and children love to look at people's movements and faces, recent research studies exactly where they look when they see someone using sign language. The ...

While it isn’t surprising that infants and children love to look at people’s movements and faces, recent research from Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf ...

Half of the dialogue in my film “CODA” is in American Sign Language. How do you write for a language that has no written form? I didn’t. Not at first. When I started studying ASL, it struck me how ...

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