This prompted me to conduct my own experiment, avoiding the pitfalls of previous studies, to test whether baby sign improves language development. I randomly allocated parents and their babies to ...

Sydney: The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has announced that an Australian Sign Language (Auslan) syllabus was released to primary and secondary schools, which would be taught in ...

At home, she uses Auslan – Australian sign language – to communicate with her deaf husband Simon and her three young hearing children. "We are happy with our language and don't feel disabled ...