Jason Riggle’s research on American Sign Language, or ASL, borrows ideas from computational, experimental, and traditional theoretical linguistics and is “very clearly at the intersection of several ...

New research is stirring fierce debate over the use of sign language among young deaf children who use surgical implants that create a sense of sound. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, ...

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Sign language interpreting is one of the highest-risk professions for ergonomic injury, according to a new study conducted by Rochester Institute of Technology. The research indicates that ...

In RIT’s ASL degree, you will seamlessly facilitate communication and interaction among deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing people in educational, medical, corporate, and community settings. The ...

The Deaf cultural studies-American Sign Language certificate offers deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing students the opportunity to understand the deaf community as an entity unto itself and within the ...

As a result of language dysfluency caused by language deprivation, psychiatric assessment of DHH American Sign Language users is complex. 36 Mental health providers must understand the trauma that is ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Andrea Lackner's research was funded by the Austrian Science Fund and affiliated with the Centre of Sign Language and Deaf Communication at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria. Most people ...