ASL is the fourth most-used language in the U.S. The ASL alphabet is a system of shapes you make with your hands to sign the letters of the English alphabet. It’s also called the American ...

The teacher’s quicksilver hand movements looked little like the sign language ... that as part of the language, you can misinterpret," she says. “I’ve heard African American signers say ...

Black American Sign Language, or BASL. Variations and dialects of spoken English, including what linguists refer to as African-American English, have been the subject of intensive study for years.

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a smart glove that wirelessly translates the American Sign Language alphabet into text and controls a virtual hand to mimic sign ...

The social media service has introduced an ASL Alphabet Lens that, as the name implies, significantly expands the American Sign Language learning experience. You'll still learn how to fingerspell ...

For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when ...

Snap is launching a new Snapchat lens that can help you learn American Sign Language (ASL). It’s called ASL Alphabet Lens, and Snapchat is launching it in partnership with SignAll, a company ...

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American Sign Language: Beginner is a two-hour course that discusses the history of deaf education, demonstrates the ASL alphabet, and shows you the signs for colors, animals, and other useful ...

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand gestures.