When asked if NAISL was created specifically for deaf people, Davis supported the possibility due to the historically higher percentage of hearing impaired ... [...] more »

The Deaf Bilingual Coalition says teachers often don't have the background they need in American Sign Language. (Jonathan Hartford/KTUU-DT) by Ashton ... [...] more »

Many valuable books are in print on teaching sign language, which was designed as a primary method for teaching English to deaf children ... and more » [...] more »

LINLITHGOW could be turned into a deaf aware town, with one person in every shop and business able to use basic sign language. ... and more » [...] more »

American Sign Language is quickly becoming a recognized international language and is being taught in some school systems as an alternative method of communication. [...] more »

I have been profoundly deaf since childhood and know the barriers, social isolation and communication difficulties of growing up deaf," said Mrs Davidson. ... The importance of sign languageManawatu Standard all 2 news articles » [...] more »

At an age when most children are struggling with their first words, Mia Jones was already chattering away in sign language. The six-year-old girl has been using the language of gestures and expressions since she was eight months old and was as fluent as an adult by the age of three. Though she has perfect hearing, her parents Craig and Jacqueline are both deaf. [...] more »

The Dublin Deaf Choir appears on television this weekend – but how do they perform? THEY ARE ONE of Dublin’s longest-running choirs, available for weddings, funerals and the occasional international festival. Founded almost 30 years ago, their repertoire includes religious and modern classics from Christmas carols to hymns and modern love ballads. Just like any regular voluntary choral group then, but with one exception – all the participants are members of the deaf community. [...] more »

Last spring, the non-profit organization Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, along with various multimedia development partners, embarked on a mission to supply deaf children of North America with a personalized, online resource tied to American Sign Language (ASL). The project, an animated dictionary for children who are either deaf or have a hearing impairment, was established to provide children with an innovative, empowering, and reliable source of definitions to the most common terms used in ASL [...] more »

It tells the story behind Signing Time! in a moving way, and shows what a difference sign language can make in the lives of young deaf and hearing children. [...] more »

Taiwanese pretty boy Eddie Peng likes to learn new things whenever he takes on a new role in a movie or idol drama. The 27-year-old spent two months learning sign language for his latest Mandarin romantic movie, Hear Me, which was the highest grossing Taiwanese film of 2009 in Taiwan, earning more than NT$24 million at the box office. The actor, who grew up in Canada, plays Tian Kuo, who is drawn to a woman, Yang Yang, he meets when he is delivering lunch boxes to deaf swimmers training for the Deaflympics. He woos her using only sign language. [...] more »

A deaf fox cub has learnt to respond to sign language after being trained by a woman whose hearing is impaired. Animal rescuer Beth Tyler-King adopted the six-weeks-old fox, Milly, when the female cub was being chased by youngsters. Berth, 43, started training Milly when she found it was deaf. “I get her to sit, I do it by doing hand signals…. I face my palm downwards to say sit, and she does sit,” the Daily Express quoted Berth, as saying. Read more: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/milly-the-deaf-fox-learns-sign-language_100291239.html#ixzz0a4BqNHQX [...] more »

Scientists have known for 40 years that even though it takes longer to use sign language to sign individual words, sentences can be signed, on average, in the same time it takes to say them, but until now they have never understood how this could be possible [...] more »

guardian.co.uk Beckett in British Sign Language? [...] more »

Eton Institute to introduce Sign Language courses for the first time in Dubai. These will be based on the widely accepted American Sign Language (ASL) standard. The institute will also donate a part of the proceeds from this initiative to the cause. [...] more »