Until the age of 16, Esmail, who is deaf, used to lipread what his friends, relatives and teachers were telling him, a process that can be exhausting due to the level of concentration involved. That ...

For deaf children, teachers and scientists, talking about things like "greenhouse gases" or "carbon footprint" used to mean spelling out long, complex scientific terms, letter by letter. Now they are ...

British Sign Language (BSL) is the preferred language for more than 87,000 deaf people in the UK, according to the British Deaf ­Association, and to comply with new ­legislation introduced under the ...

It is hoped the new technology could transform how sign language users communicate Technology aimed at translating sign language into text is being developed by Aberdeen scientists. The portable sign ...

They melted the nation's hearts in the Britain's Got Talent auditions with their inspirational version of This Is Me from hit film musical The Greatest Showman. And there wasn't a dry eye when judge ...

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