Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there?

When Tilly took her deaf daughter Ada trick-or-treating, she felt excited that her child could be included in the festivities ...

“I had difficulties in understanding what people were signing,” Jin told Sixth Tone. “There are several different dialect variants, even for the most common words like ‘Shanghai.’” Jin’s experience ...

Sign bilingualism means there are a lot of linguistic resources that benefit their academic learning. These resources also promote translanguaging and have broader significance for d/Deaf people." ...

Often people from the deaf community who communicate via ISL have to spell out individual letters by hand due to the lack of appropriate signs for niche scientific, and cultural terms or the new ...