The Deaf cultural studies-American Sign Language certificate offers deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing students the opportunity to understand the deaf community as an entity unto itself and within the ...

The ASL performance minor focuses on forms of creative expression that are unique to Deaf communities and signed language. You will develop conceptual, analytical, and artistic skills through analysis ...

Jason Riggle’s research on American Sign Language, or ASL, borrows ideas from computational, experimental, and traditional theoretical linguistics and is “very clearly at the intersection of several ...

One of the most interactive and rigorous language classes on campus involves the least amount of speaking. Every Tuesday and Thursday, a motivated group of students convenes in Frist 307 to study in ...

The ability to speak is one of the essential characteristics that distinguishes humans from other animals. Many people would probably intuitively equate speech and language. However, cognitive science ...

University of Connecticut students can now study American Sign Language (ASL) through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), UConn announced this week. UConn is the first college or ...

In any community, language is the most important method for communicating with others. However, for a deaf person like me, it is difficult to connect with many people and speak in the same ways. This ...

Ensuring d/Deaf children become bilingual in sign language and English should be a key priority for policymakers and teachers because this plays an important role in their education, a new study says.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s relatively easy to trace a written linguistic history—there ...

Sign Language Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: Current Advances in ASL Assessment (Fall 2013), pp. 58-79 (22 pages) Abstract A new test, the ASL Receptive Skills Test (ALS-RST), adapted from ...

Sign language interpreting is one of the highest-risk professions for ergonomic injury, according to a new study conducted by Rochester Institute of Technology. The research indicates that ...