More than 90 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents, which can be problematic when the first few years of a child’s life are critical to language development. But a new dictionary ...

In the UK there is a growing interest among hearing people to learn British Sign Language (BSL). Many mainstream schools are starting BSL clubs. This is a positive development in some ways ...

“This International Day recognizes the importance of sign languages for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and fulfilling its core promise of leaving no one behind. It also offers an ...

According to the World Federation of the Deaf, there are approximately 72 million deaf people worldwide. More than 80% of them live in developing countries. Collectively, they use more than 300 ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

A recent study published in the journal Infancy found that babies’ ability to match speech to faces predicted their future language abilities. The study followed 103 children from age three months to ...