Nearly 100,000 people have signed a petition set up by an 18-year-old calling for all schools to teach basic sign language. Jade Kilduff, 18, launched the campaign after seeing how sign language ...

Sign languages, like oral speech, vary enormously around the world but experts know little about how the various dialects evolved. Now a new study of 40 current sign languages and 36 historical ...

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama Jesus of Nazareth—but as a Deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it would ...

A computer program that translates sign language into written text could revolutionise the lives of the deaf and hard of hearing, scientists said. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire ...

Minority languages around the world are under threat – and that includes sign languages. British Sign Language (BSL), for example, has only around 1,000 deaf children who use it ‘to some extent’, from ...

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama “Jesus of Nazareth” — but as a deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it ...